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THE.CHINA: MAIL, APRIL 24, 18
KING ZOG A
HEN King Zog I. came to the young chieftain and his soldiers
PRIS
He said: "I:
W newly built Albanian throne in took a blood oath to defend her in- been accepted September 1928 he asked Mussolini dependence. They are fighting for my own people to supply him with a barber, King it now.
When a fore why he felt it
Zog was so afraid of assassination In 1922 Zog formed a republican change his stat
that he could not trust his own
Government and was Premier, Pre- people.
sident, and Commander-in-Chief. He felt he could trust a barber He was called Colonel Achmed Bey from the country that had just lent Zogu, and that name meant "The him two million pounds to build a Eagle Bird.” monarchy.
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in this country. dent is. I have come king."
Mussolini sen head of a godd An Italian Fascist barber was In 1927 he made a friendship pact
Italy sent a t sent with a personal guarantee from with Italy. To Mussolini he said it
brothers." Mussolini. He was given free board was “an act of friendship. The sea
and we Are natural King Zog, how at the Palace of Tirana, the capi-unites us
out of his palace tal, £35 a month, and a bonus of 15s, friends.” for each shave.
Mussolini replied: “I understand ceremony was.co The razor was safe because Italy and respect the true national inde- through risings| Britain was so was a friend and because two mem- pendence of Albania. You have my bers of the King's guard stood by personal guarantee of constant new monarch w with loaded pistols.
friendship and cordial collabora- ferred to as Now the blade has slipped-Italy tion. I will be the harbinger of feli- Achmed I., King has smashed the independence that city and prosperity to you and your it was not until
ment came fr Zog has created from the Italians' people." two million investment.
King Zog got his loan and estab- months later ṣa lished the Albanian Bank with Ita- had been quietl knew his name. lian capital.
King Zog is forty-three years old. He is the son of Jemal Pashu Zogu, the chieftain of a highland tribe of brigands-the Matis.
He began to build roads through the rugged, mountainous country. With Italian money he moulded the natural power of this wild country
Zog had little education beyond the sword, for when he was twelve his father died and he became head and race.. of the clan.
He was wounded ten times before his nineteenth birthday, in tribal warfare and blood feuds.
CROWN
It was King Z ped the "u."
His crown car Italy, and had b
from one of the
His palace wo here he worked morning till di
His country| offices, few scho had a great dog money, so he p civil list for on
HAD A FOOD TASTER
Electricity came from the tur- For five centuries Albania had bulent rivers; mineral ores oozed been a province in the Turkish through the earth's surface; trac- Empire. In November 1912 she de- tors turned the valleys that had clared her independence, and the been tilled with wooden ploughs.
But he had more than the coun- try to tame. Oriental in culture and outlook, the tribes and peasants re- scated the European influence that Europe's cheape was pressing on them. They took oaths against the President, and from 1924 to 1928 Zog left his palace only four times.
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He never wen four receptions
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Obsessed with the 'constant at- tempts to assassinate him, he be- bitumen mines; came a hermit in the two-storey leum concessiona palace at Tirana.
deposits were fo Italian company The only 4 Northern Euro
He ate only food that his mother or one of his six sisters had pre- pared for him. Even then he em- ployed a food taster.
He cut down the trees for two miles around his palace; he had an armed guard every two hundred yards around him; he received Ministers and visitors with a gun across his knee,
The two-million loan dissolved.
| Zog turned again to Italy. This time
Italy offered him more.
of the bachelor --- One of his wo Vlora, committ Cenotaph in Wh
The Italian pr promised marrie Ileana of Ruma but she took and king, anxious to marriage broker
There were further loans, a pro- He was report mise of arms, a bride from the Ita- Egyptian heire lian royal household if Zog would butante, a Russi Within his ow proclaim himself King.
In September, 1928, Achmed Bey eligible girls, bu Zogu took the oath, with his Army medan, and his holding down a tribal revolt in the did not coincide north, a military guard round his One bride he. † palace and a fully-armed police fortune to be sla force parading the streets.
visit.
He open
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