The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-09-07
QUESTION
MUST ESETTLEDAT
PEACE CONFERENCE
As Backward Today as 1t Was
Centuries Ago. Is This Little
Island Over Which Italy Has
Proclaimed a Protectorate.

Corfu, Island Of Corfu. Sent. -
Just across this narrow strait lies
Albania. that no-man's land over
which Italy has Just proclaimed a pro-
Electorate. one can see plainly from
here the tarren gray mountains Of
Albania. making a ragged line along
the sky. They lie very near. hardly
more than ten miles off. and an op-
'O"' .'u~'"h h'"Ner 'hf" sec" nea'
. 80
80. 49,. t'..nr. orr 49,.
nt~nro.an' 80" x~T,s a.
lh.n,n aus ~ ~
Mace - - 80 r. An'a, 80
IT, ~, 49, w."
80. "...a"
- - k,sa"ta 49,
nsoni.,a - 49, y, ~
.htah s.m -
49, "aa -, az ny
In ~ na,,." !" Wv Pu
naa,. 80 1870
r,s,a.a, a,-sa ~ ~
no. 'urren's-.he I'aiian' ~hich
ID -, % " ~
60. 100
49,. -, 1919
o., craaa" - A. 80
- .a,,,.. Ap"u' ~
,rau.t.- ~"
~" - ~ 49, $50 c'"s' ~
80 pa,s.." T.. ~
- 80 N"''e.' 'ne S'"NS
mo,o a ~ q"
- Nu'.'''0 Hh'
ga,tt,. 80 =. P''i'' """ eN''
w -
N'''"ihh> ARC silent.
What Albania herself thinks Of q
no one seems TO have considered. This
seems rather singular at a time
when the great powers are talking so
much about the principle 81 national
ity and the right Of all people to de-
termine their own political destinies
The Alhanians are never heard from
on this question a. 10 who shall rule
them. aud apparently they care moth
ing about TOY II b. settled. These A.
bantam men and women who como
here are looked upon az docile peas.
ants. incapable 81 having any political
~uSpir''ons or OF the desire 10 form q
','"n'
cPPea's :" DC the one coun-
aDahuoheo ny nature as so poor is
'es a. nov To De worth develop
., uI pr"sfesS. II mas lain here Tor
tne great centers
~Fcteht culture midway hetween
w N.h'hs' ana yet II L. as
""''u i""aN as II was centuries
- ana voc people are as primitive
nn u".'Nlll@ed as some OF the VIVID
49, oi central AFRICA. In northern
iD""" 'he people are savage mouu-
aI''s' Ih'fe is nothing like of-
u INDUSTRY or ~Ericultur any
/ W mere. M UMfhaENnH Hm N.AMm. -
cHles ana the Development Of society.
Ihefe Is no such thing as a bank In
az Hlnania' There is no railway.
roads are the foot-paths Of ages. or
the Old military highways Of the
homans. Although Albania has m
SuFmtlc 'front.' rivaliing ltaly's. yet she
hhsht a port or harhor tom end to
cnd And yet the Albanians are n
ulsunot rae. with their own language.
nut without the ability through an
the e 4" lift themselves into an
ORGANIZED state.
RiyaI Interests Clash
II is this Indlfferorco -. A.
Itself. that has brought ,ho ~,
~terests clashiny fror, -, -"
Coming hrouph nonno -
position was exnIatned -
follows: ItaIv has a goaara ~ -
,lation 10 Albania much IL a."
ed State mas Ia C,,ha por,o ~
the Panama canal 'rb,, A. L.
great power neares, 10 Aib,nt, anS
NATURALLY. haveine tho u,nst tn,ia-
concern in lis future Norsovo, uat,
has an exposed const limo an no Al.
rlatIc acrnsg r.
lbania. and only sixty miles ,uay =,
the strait Of Otranto. Itnlv's eastern
coast IL exposed in the sense ~, n,
Is a low marshv from, incopabIe of
Having n fortified port frnu ope oud
TO the other.
Naturally. therefore. win Alho,ia
iusf across The WAY and worry pe.r ot
hand. ItaIy'y action was one Of solf-
defense. This was particularly true
with Italian military lines stretching
%ecross Alhlnin from Valona to SALON.
llki. Military necessity az well as self
defense made the protcctorate ucccs-
sary. But Italy has no territorial as
pirations over Albania. beyond the
$50