The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-25
ALBANIA T0RNBY
BITTER STRIFE
Break Between Renal Bey
and Essad Pasha
Widening.
PEACE NOT IN SIGHT
Young Turks Have Not
Abandoned Hope of Con-
trolling Government.
POWERS HAVE HARD TASK
Opposition to Prince Of WED
Is Strong, Although
Concealed.
POWERS HAVE HARD TASK
Special Correspondence 10 THs SEX

Special Correspondence 10 TBs srS
AvLoNA, Albania. Jan. 1.-THE COM
plications OF the international situation
in Albania. already adjusted TO a hair
spring delicacy. haye been increased by
the landing here Of party OF 200 in
vading Turks. The fact that they were
nmbushed on the way from the port to
the town by Ismail Renal Bey's gen.
darmes and taken prisoners has not de-
tracted from the mystery OF the expedi-
ton that is known TO have originated in
Constantinople and reputed to have had
for its object the proclaiming OF Izzet
Pasha. former War Minister OF Turkey,
King of Albania.
Even though the adventure has proved
a failure--it seems to have been hurried
away from STEAMBOAT i'll prepared and
without secrecy enough to hide its pur-
pose from the provisional Government
here-!t tends 20 prove that the Young
Turks have not abandoned Albania and
that they yet have hopes of either re-
covering IL or OF debating its future gov
ernment. BY many it is believed to have
been another Of those aggressive meas
ures that have their conception In the ac-
tive mind of the new War Minister Envcr
Bey. now Enver Pasha.
\ man who with a handful OF half
starved Arabs held the Italians at bay
IN Tripol and who in defiance OF the
Powers tore up the treaty OF London.
marched out OF the disastrous bitches at
Tchataldja and recaptured Adrianople,
might find n peculiar field for his activ-
tiles at a points which AT the present is
holding the attention Of Europe. BY maxi
ing Albania a thorn in the side OF Greece
he could much more easily bring that
nation 10 terms in the Aegean Sea or
with a strong back fire along the Alba
man border the advance would be facili-
jatcd to Salonica, the recovery Of which
the Young Turks have declared is their
intention.
Izxet Pasl,n an Alba nian.
No better man could have been selected
to please the Albanian Mussulmans and
many other d!scontented factions OF the
land then IZZet Pasha. He was In the
Ministry Of ABDUL Hamid. and to many
Of the Albanians the Hamidian rule was
better for them than the so-called con-
stitutional reign that followed 1t. Many
OF them held offices Of trust at the Porte
and the people were never bothered with
the NeNations Of taxes and duties Be
sides. the Sultan had very pleasing
way of rewarding, as a means of paci-
Tying them. with medals and money after
every revolution In which they had met
with some degree OF success.
1zzet, himself an Albanian, had habit
of looking after the ambitious men of his
race who came TO Constantinople. and In
this way built up around himself a rather
effective native machine. Before he came
10 the War Ministry he had been COM
mander In a long drawn out Yemen cam
paign, had been Chief OF the General
Staf. was one of the commissioners who
last November negotiated the armistce of
Tchataldja. So that he had to his credit
considerable service under both the old
aud new regimes and was entitled to ad-
miration from his countrymen as both
a soldier and diplomat.
1zzets resignation from the War Office
came as a surprise He went out, he
said. because he wished to travel and was
tired OF the hard work that his position
had entailed. While he denies that there
was an understanding between him and
Enver Pasha as to his becoming ruler of
Albania he acknowledged that he had
Carried on considerable correspondence
recently with Esad Pasha. He is the
owner of extensive estates In southern
Albania a large part of which will. IL
the present allotment OF territory is
carried out become Grecian territory
He too has been approached and solicited
ny representatives OF the Mussulman
population to become a candidate for the
ruler OF the country. representations
having been made that the Mohammedans
had declared that they would not live
IN peace under n Christian prince selected
by the Powers.
Interior strife SPREADING.
The situation into which the Young
Turks have thus forced themselves is an
desperate as that which ever faced land
,;SS1t - be made into new state by the
act of European chancelleries. From the
interior daily comes report of bitter feud
struggles and wars between the different
tribes and clans. The country has been so
wrecked by war that nothing in the way
of agriculture has been accomplished, the
little live stock that there was In the
lowlands has been killed by the invaders
so that most of the Inhabitants are on the
verge of starvation. Many of them have
crowded into the town demanding food
and in places have forced their demands
by violence.
The Servans who reached Ebassan and
held most Of the country bordering on
Macedonia, remained a burden upon the
people until short time ago and ruled
the places that they occupied with so
much severity that many of the inhabl-
tants We're killed and much property was
destroyed. The Greeks are still in &C.
cupation OF a large territory which. It Is
claimed, will eventually be Albanian. They
still maintain a military post upon the
island OF Saseno. which guards the en-
trance of the bay Of Avlona and they
actually blockaded the coast OF southern
Albania until last summer. There were
clashes between the Albanians and the
Greeks and charges OF murder. assassi-
nation and rapine were made almost
daily.
The forces that have been ostensibly
making an effort to bring something like
order out of these conditions have been
the international Commission OF Control,
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