Evening star., 1920-06-14
ALBANIA HAS IT'S TROUBLES
FROM OUTSIDE AND WITHIN
Lie Between Quarrel With Serbia and
War With Greece, and Has Three
Domestic Disputes.

Adriatic. But while they were rivals
both were agreed In opposing the ac-
| QUESTION of Albania by two Balkan
states. The dispute was carried to
sided at a conclaye which devoted
many weeks to deciding whether Ipek
and Jacova should be, Albanian or
Montenegrih. and ended by giving
| them to the Slavs, although the popu-
| lation was purely Albanian.
! Russia. supported the Serb claim.
but neither Russia nor Germany was
Teauy Ter the general war and in the
end there was compromise which
created an Albanian state. deprived
ern Epirusi took Scutari from the
serbs and Montenegrins and erected
state which was no more than
geographical expression. william
OF Wiedi named as prince, exercised
no real authority and Albania con-
tinued. As 1t has been for centuries.
outside the European system. land
OF picturesque mounta ineers with
strangely overdeveleped ideas as to
homicide and hospitality.
a- Falls to Stop War.
The next year after Albania was
created to avoid world war that
war came and Albania disappeared
from mind. The Serbs retreated
feats Of 1915. The Austrians @ ms. came
south after them. The Italians. when
,ney began to take a hand. occupied
talena and presently there was an
AIpanlan a. front extending from Valona
p,,, s. koritza. Then the .Austrians and
Bulgarians collapsed and the allied
armies pushed north again and Al
bania had relapsed into its secular
conditlon OF blissful anarchy.
buL once more the old claims began
- Pc urged. The Greeks. no longer
lnslsting uPen half of Albania. asked
only the Hellenic regions. Including
the towns Of Argyroaastre and Ko.
ritsa The Italians stayed In Yaiena
ana continued to oppose Greek claims,
serbia, with whom Montenegro had
now united, feasserted claims to Scu-
Iari and the lower Drina. Italy pro-
| posed that Scutari should take the
place Of Fiume in Slav calculation
Britain and France assented, but
PRESIDENT Wilson interposed a veto.
Meantime Italy began 10 reopen the
old question of an Albanian pro-
tsctorate, this time disguised under
the euphemism Of a mandate.
| AS for the Albanians, they continued
| TO shoot the Italians whenever a good
| target appeared: they opposed Greek
claims In the south and they met
Serb claims to Scutari with their own
Jacova and the tribal lands down at
London. demands which were well
grounded upon the fourteen points
| and locally championed by some of
| the best shots In the world. A lit
| tie war, too Insignificant to claim at
| tention. has been going on between
Slav and Skypitar for something like
two years. while the blood feud be-
| tween the Italians and the Albanian
has gained in intensity with each
| succeeding week.
Like ALI Balkan and indeed. middle
European problems. the Albanian ques-
| ton has many solutions. There is the
Albanian, which no one now advo-
| Gates. that Ia the creation of a real
Albanian state. Its frontiers extended
| to take in certain old Serbian lands
| and maintained against Serb and
| Greek, alike. with the italian totally
excluded. Then there is the Italian
solution, which makes Albania as big