BALKAN UNREST.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 5

BALKAN UNREST.

ALBANIAN RISING.

TIRANA IN REBEL HANDS

YUGOSLAVIAN FRONTIER CLOSED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received Dec. 26, 9.55 a\m.) •NEW YORK, December 25.

Reports from Belgrade confirm the occupation of Tirana, in Albania, by: Yogu's troops, while Rome despatches state that Premier Fan Noll's Government is in a critical condition. .:.'.;" The Yugoslav Government has an- ( nounced its action in closing the-Alba-• nian frontier at-the - most important■■ points was for the purpose of scribing the present Albanian move-, ment and to prevent it taking an international aspect. • •■

PRECAUTIONS IN SERVIA.

WHOLE POLICE FORCE MOBILISED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received/Dec. 26, 9.55 a.m.) BELGRADE, December 25. The Government is taking. radical measures to prevent an outbreak: fol-" lowing the dissolution of the .Croat„ Peasant' Republican Party. Orders* have been issued to keep troops ready in all the provinces with the exeep-. tion of the Old' Servian Kingdoms, especially in the Croatian and Slovene Provinces, where feeling is stronger. The entire police force of the country has been mobilsed. . . '.'V It is reported that the Croat leader, Radios, is still in Agram,