Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
BY HENRY w. BUM.
following is brief summary
of the most important news
of the world for the seven days
n ..aSnd Cnntnrahar IL.

-HE following is brief summary
of the most important news
of the world for the seven days
ended September Is:
Albania.-All the world loves q
Princess, especially one so charming as
the Princess Giovanni OF Italy. so the
world listens with absorption TO the
gossip which alleges that King Boris OF
Bulgaria, and King zogu Cor Scanderoeg
III or whatever may be his tltle), OF
Albania are rival Suitors for Princess
Giovanna's hand.
King Boris might be suitable match,
for he is reputed a very good sort, but
really the gossip as to zogu Is quite too
romantic. In the first place, he Is a
Mohammedan. Conceivably he might
turn Christian, but we have it on very
good authority that he himself readily
admits that he arrived at his dazzling
eminence by the good old path OF
assassination. Really. he won't do. BY
the way. the Albanians call him
"Mpret" which is thought to be cor
ruption of "Imperator." He Is only 50
years old. While still boy, he sue
ceeded his father as Beg of the Natl,
said to be the most powerful tribe IN
northern Albania. He has been by
turns pro-Turk, pro-Serbian and pro
Italian. Some would call him clever,
others slippery.
We hear that Belgrade won't &C
knowledge Mpret Zogu 1 and has with
drawn its diplomatic representative
from Tirana; chiefly because zogu is
denominated, not King of Albania, but
King of the Albanians, and it is es-
timated that of the two million or so
Albanians in the world about 100000
are subjects of the King of the Serbs
Croats and Slovenes, there being only
about $4,000 Albanians in Albania.
Some people might have a kick COM
ing on similar grounds as to the title
of the King at Belgrade.
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Bulgaria. recent political develop
ment in Bulgaria might not, at first
blush seem OF great consequence. but
a far prettier business in the Balkans
might lead to the embodiment of the
entire planet, might bring the whole
world by the ears. The Liapchef cab
met resigned because of a bitter di-
vision of opinion among them. The
French and British governments had
been urging the Sofia government to
end the terrorism exercised by the So
called Macedonian revolutionary or
| ganization" to smash that ineffable
outfit. M. Buroff, the foreign minister,
approved the advice and pressed for
correspondent action. But Gen. VOL
koff, the minister of war, backed, we
are told, by the army, was even more
emphatically of the contrary persuasion.
| Of the rest of the cabinet some went
with Buroff, others (probably in fear of
Macedonian bullet or cold steeD with
| Wolkoff.
So the cabinet resigned Liapcheff
was invited to form new cabinet. So
bitter was the quarrel, it seemed that
he, a lover of compromise, must def
| .nitely take sides, excluding one of the
| two groups from participation in the
| government. Favoring the Buroff
group, he would risk assassination, civil
war might result; but that, one felt,
would be the courageous, the honorable
choice. Favoring the Wolkoff group,
| he would, one felt, connive at terrorism,
would antagonize Britain and France
and would be likely to ruin the chances
of foreign loan, negotiations for which
have been set afoot;; loan SO neces-
sarv to the Bulgarian economy
What happened was that King Boris,
| presumably with an eye to the desired
loan) interviewed to effect a reconcilia-
ton. The old cabinet is. back. Close
observers, however, regard the reconcile
alton as of the frailest, they predict
for it only the briefest life.
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China.-The Marking government has
announced that "Likin" is to be
completely abolished before the end of
october as preliminary to institution
of tariff autonomy, but there seems to
be a good deal of doubt whether such
total abolition Is Immediately Practicable.