The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-21
ALBANIA APPEALS
TO u. S. FOR SUCCOR
Says Italians, Greeks and
Serbs Are Rending 1t.

PARIS, Aug. 2O.-The Albanian delega-
ton to the Peace Conference, headed by
! Mgr. Louis Bunca, has sent by cable
an appeal to the President of the
| United State, Senate and party lead
| ers on the Foreign Relations Committee,
Senators Lodge and Hitchcock for pro-
| lection against the "imperialism' OF
| their neighbors.
The Greeks, Italians and Serbs are
| constantly encroaching on Albanian ter
| ritory, according TO the Albanian repre-
sentatives, who urged that a plebiscte
be granted to determine the boundaries
of Albania The appeal reads as fol-
lows:
I'm this critical period of Albania's
! history its delegation addresses itself
to the sentiments of justice of the
United States Senate, implorng it's pow
erful support OF tho rights of the Alba
MAN people. Albania, after struggles to
recover its liberty and after being de-
prived of half of its territory In favor
Of its neighbors in 1913 established an
Independent State. Just as Belgiums
neutrality, guaranteed by the great
Powers, was violated, so was Albania's
from the beginning of the war. first by
allied troops, then by enemy armies
Albania was transformed into
battlefield and knew the horrors OF war.
it saw itself covered with ruins, and
thousands of its children perishing with
hunger. At the proclamation of the
principle of the rights OF peoples, issu-
ing from America, the Alhanians took
up arms to fight alongside Of the Allies
in an effort 10 save their country.
After the Entente victory which
signifed the triumph of right and
Justice the Nbanians formulated and
presented to the Peace Conference their
national claims. They had the GER
taipty of seeing the restoration to their
country of the Albanian territories in
corporated into the neighborlng States
as result Of the Balkan war.
"'For the inhabitants OF these terri
tories, who went through the horrors OF
the Greek invasion, and who to-day are
still deliver, 4, as they were in the past
to premediatated massacre OF eXtermina-
ton by the Serbs, the Albanian delega-
ton asked several times from the Peace
Conference the right of a plebiscite
under the guarantee of American troops.
but instead they see their country to-day
menaced with Acknowledgement
I'm the application OF the secret
treaty of London, of 1915, Italy insists,
with force, upon anneXing Nalona with
the large HInterland, Greece claims
Northern Epirus, and Serbia claims the
northern part OF Albania. Thus when
the JugoslaYs, the Italians and the
Greeks deal with Fiume Dalmatia and
Thrace the right of the principle Of ma
tionality prevails, but they refuse 10
acknowledge the same when they deal
will! their pretensions in Albania.
The cry Of distress % the Albanian
people is smothercd by the powerful i'm
perialsm OF their neiGhbors. The hope
which the Alhanians have fixed their
eyes upon is America and from her
again they expect salvation. Al Alba
mans prefer American assistance 10
guide them in their political life,
'In the name Of this martyrcd people
the Albanian delegation prays that you
raise your voice to save their country
from catastrophe and secure their nde-
peEdence."