The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-12
On. z. Post.)

On. Y. PoStO
Demands for Austrian Intervention
in behalf of the Malissori in Albania
continue to be heard in some of the
Viennese newspapers. In the Fater-
Land an anonymous Catholic Alban-
ian publishes an appeal to the Powers
not to allow the handful of heroes"
to he done to death in the Albanian
sorses by overwhelming Turkish for
cess The Turkish government he
writes. intends to annihilate them once
and for all Twill the European Pow
e-s simply register such an act! VIII
the Austrian government, to which
these people have ever SHOWN the
greatest attachment because it is the
blood of the Malissori to be shed as
the Turks may please? Yet, unless
II intervenes, the Malissori are al
ready marked out for extinction,
The correspondent of the London, Times
in vienna writes: For Austria-Hun-
gary a considerable interest of pres
tiee is at stake and, however firmly
tho doctrine of non-intervention may
he advocated in official quarters and
the sacred right of every State to sup
press disorder as it likes within it's
own borders may be proclaimed Dy IN
ternational diplomacy, 1t is useless Tor
the great Powers to close their eyes
ed against the Eastern Albanians last
wear, and now apprehended in the
case of the Malissori, may be employ
ed against the Bulgar and Greek pop
ulation of Macedonia tomorrow, with
consequences that would compel Eu-
rope to take stand.
DR.. Fridtjof Nansen, one of the first
to be informed of Capt. Amundsen's
Antartic expedition, writes a long let
ter TO the London Times, in explana-
ton of the latter's action. He says:
after Cooks and Peary's return the
interest for his North Polar expedi-
ton ceased; the support he had been
promised from America, his last hope,
was withdrawn, and the Norwegian
Parliament refused to give him the
the additional grant required. No
other resources were left. If moth
ing were done, the money of his sup
porters would be wasted. He had
therefore either to give up the whole
undertaking, on the preparation of
which he had spent some years of his
life, or to do something tending to
rouse the interest of the public at
large in order to put himself in a pO-
sition to raise the money still want
ing. He chose the latter course, and
fearing that we might advise him not
to go to the Antarctic, and consider
ing it his duty to take the response
bility on himself alone, he decided
not to tell any of us who had assisted
him with the preparations for the
North Polar expedition about his new
decision And in this he was perhaps
right AS for myself, 1 must admit
that il / had known of his plan be-
forehand / might possibly have warn
ed him against going south, for fear
that it would be too hard a strain
upon a man first to go on a trying
South Polar expedition and then
straight away to a drift voyage across
the North Polar Basin, calculated to
last at least five Or six years. I
have never heard of any plan ap-
preaching 1t, and although my opin-
ion is that Amundsen, if anybody, is
the very man to carry out such a gil
gantic task, I should not have cared
to have taken the responsibility of en-
couraging him.
A Portuguese bishop has been ex-
pressing his opinion of the new law
for the separation of Church and
state in that country. He said: THE
law is entirely different from the
French and Brazilian laws. 1t places
the Portuguese clergy in a humiliating
and abject position. No govern
ment has ever before had such con-
troll over the church. Not only are