Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-29

Affairs, Mr.. Popovitch In accord
ance with the constitution" he said.
three of us remained behind ana
constitute the whole of the govern
ment ! am minister of foreign af-
ialrs and minister of the interior. NJ.
Radalovitch is acting premier and
minister Of education. and Gan. Neso-
witch Is minister of war"
These are the ministers, however.
who We're ordered by King Nicholas
not to carry on business. and it re-
mains to be seen who is the real gov
eminent.
The Serbian seat of government at
Corfu is also in hotel, the largest
establishment on the island formerly
run by a German, but onw entirely
taken over for Serbian cabinet meet
ings and administration. Here the
ministers have their offices. and in
company with Albanian officials re-
Gently arrived, mingle in the drawing
and dining rooms Premier Pasch-
WITT with his patriarehial white beard,
Is a striking figure in these minister
ial groups. Crown Prince Alexander
recently arrived at the hotel and re-
ceiyed a royal reception from the
Serbian army already ON the island.
The Serbian forces are varlosly esti-
mated from $4,000 to 10000 with
$4,000 Albanlans French officers
are now training this remnant of the
old armies back to their old standard.
There will be a surprise some day"
said the Serbian minister to the Asso-
ciated Press, when some point il
hard pressed, and 10000 Serbian
troops spring back to the firing line
in complete state of equipment and
efficiency"
This training has been quietly going
on at Corfu, and Corfu is very near
the allied base in the southeast.
The Belgian administration goes
forward much is it did NJ Brussels,
even to the appearance of the Mont
teur Beige, the official organ of gov
ernment business. An issue the other
day gave the orders of the minister Of
colonies on the Congo budget show
''AS AiiNN Af'AFihIl NohNiihtC " nav =
very substantial resources from that
far-away source even if its home re-
sources are cut off The orders re-
ferred to the Congo receipts as &c.
Oly,000 francs for the year. and a
provisional credit against this amount
/ was opened at 13,6S5,000 francs for
certain government expenditures \
a h,r /.
giving to Mr. Vandervelde, now min
lister of state, the qualities of war min
lister on administrative matters at
Elavre and the military base. except
ing the army at the front. All the
other inistries-commerce labor,
railways and telegraphs, etc.--have
their full share of activities, with nu-
merous orders showing the work they
are doing.
Some of the Belgian troops have
recently been withdrawn from the
front and sent to the Congo. where
there is another extensive administra-
tion and frontiers to be protected
against German East Africa Bel
gian official summed up the wealth
and Vastness of this Congo region by
saying it was seventy-slX times as large
as Belgium
The legislative branches of these
transitory governments are about the
only ones not continuing to operate.
many Of the senators and deputies be-
ing under restraint in their home
countries, so that ii is left to the kings
and executive branches to carryy for
ward the government 1t was esti-
mated that about sixty Serbian dep
uties could be assembled for meet
ing at Nice, hut this has about been
abandoned. Aside from the legisla-
tive, however, all these governments
are keeping up all their functions as
sovereign nations, difficult and almost
unprecedented as this is on foreign
! soil, and all of them are expecting
to have something to say as nations
in the final settlement.