The Monticellonian., 1917-12-07

ure is based is the first to be taken in Albania since the great census of Au- guStus. made some 1900 years ago. Combined Italian and native courts were instituted and as a result the classic Albanian feud rendered super fluous, hence illegal. Schools for little children have been opened throughout the country. in number PA, with 194 teachers
 Civil police service distinct from or dinary military surveillance has been organized with view to granting as large liberty as is compatible to the civilians. The horrid Turkish prisons were in some cases abolished, in oth- CTS thoroughly sanitiZed. New build inss will soon be erected. Coastal navigation between Albanian ports and linking them to nearby Corfu Is encouraged within the limits of naval exigencies. Customs offices with coast patrols are already in operation and all the money taken in is spent in im- proving the country. Vast hygienio measures are being carried out.
 For the better supervision of the varied services pertaining to civil ad- ministration Il secretaryship for civil affairs was instituted. It is defined as the organ through which his excel lency, General Ferrero, exercises his powers of watchfulness, control and guardianship over the vast field of . state and autonomous administration The office issues periodical reports, to one of which 1 am thankful for most of the information herein contained. The secretary, Count Hugo Capialbi, is an enthusiastic worker.
 Making Over Ancient Cities.
 A list of all the various things ac- complished would read like Il circular advertisement for new western town of recently opened suburb. The ports of Avlona and Santi Quaranta have been literally transformed by piers, sheds, warehouses. various ad- ministrative buildings. A general sur vey of the entire country has been made and soon new map will appear corrected to the slightest detail. At Avlona the port is linked to the near by camps and military positions by more than ninety kilometers of Decau- vile narrow gauge railroad. There are two ice factories, for the hospitals. an electric power plant, limekilnS. Various existing buildings have been made over and serve as prefecture. as central office for the military engi- neers engaged in civil works, as post office. courthouse, agricultural office and civil affairs building. Within a short time a new customs office, pub lie slaughter house, covered markets town hall and courthouse will be built
 The transformation of Aylona seemed at first beyond human capac- ity. Only those who have seen some thing of the orient will appreciate the 1 filth, the tortuous plan, the general baseness of this semioriental port, as it was before this war, as 1t had been for centuries. as 1t might always have been it seems, had not some neweom- CT arrived to make the herculean at tempt to clean these truly Augean stables. But fortune favored the new corners. fire burned out the old mar ket and the center of town. Austrian aviators destroyed many of the sur rounding dwellings. A great open space was left in the very spot where the hopeless bazaars had once stood To the Italians an open spot and leave ] to build on it are all a man needs to enjoy perfect bliss. They set up tenn porary bazaars and set to work From buildings of immediate need they have passed to monuments and plan is now on foot to adorn the new public square with a tall clock tower and adequate fountains, for which new aqueduet four miles long has been con- structed and another is about to be built.