Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-28
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN, March 28.-Europe has
found amusement in the financial en-
| barrassment of Prince William OF
Wied, who was forced to arrange all
the preliminaries of his ascent to the
throne of Albania on credit.
Not until the last moment before
his departure from Berlin did the
young monarch-elect succeed in get
| ting any of the 81 100000 loan which
had been arranged by the Powers.
The result was that he was unable to
meet the bill of $3.50 for moving his
personal effects and furniture to the
palace at DurazZo. The shipment was
entrusted to the German agent or the
Austrian State Railways, who finally
obtained orders from Vienna to send
the bills for transportation to the
Austrian foreign office
Austria also paid the railway fares
and hotel bills OF the new monarch on
his round of state visits to the capt.
| tails of Europe and furnished the
steamer to take him to Durazzo. The
gorgeous uniform which the prince
deigned for his state entry was turned
out by the Austrian court tailor, and
the Albanian notables, who came to
the princes German home at Neuwied
to offer to him the crown, borrowed
In Vienna the money for the first pay
ment on that necessary piece of royal
equipment.
The crown consists of a. clrclet of
gold set with turquoises. above which
are six interesting arches OF gold, sup
porting at the apex the white star OF
Skanderbeg." Skanderbeg was the
Albanian national hero and last de-
fender of Christian and national in
tereSts i'm the Balkans against the in
vading Moslems. He spent his boy
hood as n Turkish captive and en-
braced Recommendation, but finally
escaped to Albania, organized an In
surrection, and established an Al
bantam principality which he success
fully defended against both Turks
| and Nenetians for twenty-five years
during the fifteenth century. Prince
williams son and heir, Prince Carol
| Victor. born May 10. 1918, will, il is
announced be renamed Skanderbeg
and ultimately become Skanderbeg ii.
! Of Albania, should the Kingdom CON
| tinue Its precarious existence until
| that time.
Good Judges Of Balkan conditions
| here assign an existence of not more
than ten years to the new kingdom
and the German foreign office is con-
WINGED that William may even lose
his life within that period
| LONDON. March 28.--Nine South
ern States of the United States now
owe British bondholders total OF
more than1$75, O0O. 900, not including
! interest. on account OF debts which
| have been in default from forty to
seventy years, according to a report
of the Council OF the Corporation of
! Foreign Bondholders.
| This association, organized forty
years ago to protect the interests of
holders of foreign securities, has for
many years had eleven foreign states
on its black list, but this year the
republic of Guatemala, under pres
sure from the foreign office, has re-
sumed payments after a default ex-
tending over fourteen years.
1.-THE elimination of Guatemala, -
says the report, "leaves the unenvia-
BILE distinction of defaulters to the
republic of Honduras, and nine States
of the United States of America.
namely, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana. Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
I West Virginia"