San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-30
ITALIAN
FLEET IS
PREPARED
Demonstrations Against
Greeks in All Parts
Of Italy.
SITUATION IS TENSE
British Government Watch
ing Development Of
Affairs Closely.
THINK ACTION HASTY
Wait Final Action Of Coun-
! Gil Of Allied Am
bassadors.
SITUATION IS TENSE
THINK ACTION HASTY

London. Aug. 30.-A dispatch 10 the
Evening News from Milan says the
Italian fleet in laramie harbor has
received orders to be prepared TO sail
in the eventaality Of movement
against Greece.
Demonstrations against Greeks are
reported from all parts of Italy. SAYS
a Central news dispatch from Rome.
but so far as is known no acts of vio-
lence have occurred.
The government has called on the
newspapers and the Fascist forces to
assist in the maintenance of order and
discipline.
The British government is follow
ing with close interest the outcome
Of Italy's sensational ultimatum TO
Greece demanding redress for tbs
massacre of the Italian boundary de-
Limitation mission near the Albanian
frontier
While the most serious view il
taken of the whole affair in soveru-
ment quarters. it is not believed il
will lead TO anything like open hostil-
tiles.
Mussolini Too Hasty.
British officials are represented as
of the opinion that Premier Mussolini
may have acted too prematurely in
making such sweeping and humiliat-
ing terms on Greece without definite
proof of official Greek completely IA
the Sayings
Belief is expressed that the crime
was the work of individual Greeks or
Albanians who felt aggrieved at the
boundary commission for allocatins
certain towns to their adversaries.
For the present. the matter. so far
as the British are concerned. rests
with the inter-allied council OF am
bassadors in Paris.
At the time of the tragedy. the
British member of the delimitstion
commission. Colonel Giles. and the
French member. NJ. De Legste. were
engaged in duties in the interior OF
Albania, or ii is feared they might
have met the same fate as their Itais
ian colleagues.
Rifle and Dagger Rule
American travellers familiar with
the region where the assassination IL
the lillian members of the Greco Al
bantam mission occurred described the
country as extremely primitive and
desolate and the people as illiterstc
and IMMERSED in the ordinary ameni-
ties of life.
The rifle and dagger is the rule Of
the road there. Grievances of all kinds
are avenged by swift death TO the Of
tenders for the natives, who have been
under the armed heel of the Turk foe
centuries, scarcely know the Gle
elements of civilized life and are no
respectors of persons.
They have no hesitation in Shoot-
ing men of any nationality. il they
feel they have sufficient grounds. Tie
vendetta still persists among them
and the only authority they recognize.
is an cdict from patriarchial chief
OF a Khan.
Both the Greek aud the Albauisn
governments have tried hard 10 repress
the lawlesS clements. but with indH-
ferent success as the savage customs
of the natives are based upon centuries
of practice and traditions.
Even members of.the American lied
Cross, when on their. crrands Of
mercy in Albania have never Travelled
over the mountain roads without a
rifle ready for use and a personal
/ bodyguard who usually is an .Alhan-
ian who has pledged his own life a.
security for that of the individual he
/ guards.