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EUROPE'S CRAZIEST COUNTRY

Albania is in the news and rumours speak of an Italian invasion. Here you will read of the strange customs of the country over which King Zog rules

A

LBANIA is Europe's ment economise by giving them

craziest country trousers or shoes,

beautiful braided jackets, but no Offer an Albanian a

cigarette, and he will shake Sometimes films banned by his head and take it. If other countries are shown, for he's

there is no censorship unless a non-smoker, he

somebody objects. Albani. will nod and refuse.

ans strictly Albania abounds with brought up

strange things like that.

with regard to women, gasp in shocked delight

It has no radio station or rail way; yet modern air services na censored operate daily between important scenes flicker centres. There is no running on the screen. water; every drop has to be give the celebrated Dietrich legs brought in petrol cans from wells a hearty clap. outside the town.

They always

Albania's most hated man is

Durnzzo has a magnificent Abdurrahman Krosi, Zog's right- harbour which is always empty, hand man. Nobody seems to

LIVING in state with generation asked me.

"Six. ex- Zog are three of his travagant women are a big drain for Albania has no merchant know who he is, but everybody six sisters. While their brother on the finances of a poor little fleet or navy. Buffaloes drag hates him, except the King, rarely ventures out for fear of country like ours.". heavy carts slowly through Hundreds have sworn to kill vendetta killing, they go where With his usual cloverness, pass cobbled city streets, yet power- him. As he sits in the Kursaal they like. The Albanian holds Zog chose for his wedding to ful modern cars dash along dried garden, soldiers and tough that no woman, not even a king's Countess Geraldine Appony!- mud country roads. Inside may mountain fighters are ready al- sister, is worth a bullet. April 27 last

year a day be a farmer in native dress and ways to defend their dreaded They have their own regi- memorable in Albanian history. his well-groomed son back from master. In spite of hate, every ments, which they command in Five hundred years earlier on an Italian university.

body grovels before him, for it natty uniforms. A year or so the same day another great Al- From London

is said that Krosi's friends pros- ago they went to America to banian leader can tele- phone overy European country per and his enemies die. Every buy new clothes, for in Tirana Skenderberg, whose name is still day a new atrocity story about fashionable things cannot be revered throughout this, tiny except Albanin. No cable crosses

When they returned Balkan country. Even to-day the Adriatic to Italy or the high him is whispered at cafe tables. bought

from America in the Queen Mary many Albanians still wear the mountains to Grecce or Yugo- Cafes take the place of Eng- they had 00 pairs of shoes with Xhurdin, a thick black jacket, Slavia. But the inland service lish pubs and clubs. All is the simplest in the world. You men sit at the tables, tipping they are not popular In Albania. death.

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"How can we expect our peo-

Minister of the new

was married-

Thus does time stand still in

Geoffrey Lucy

MONG the unforeseen results of

the Spanish Civil War in its at home you can be put through censor allows them to hear. ple to economise when the King's this rocky corner of the Balkans. early stages was a slight estrange to the house he's visiting, for Their wives never go with them, own sisters show such a bad example?" an earnest young ment of view between Britain, number by heart. Usually they is very much at home.

the two operators know every for in Albania a woman's place

Cabinet deliberately detached from the listen-in to conversations; some the waitresses are foreign girls, struggle, and Portugal, whom a times they join in.

mostly from. Hungary, Rumania contest waged just the other alde

and Austria. of her sole land frontiers seemed to affect more intimately. The un- fortunate possibilities of any seri-

THE MILLIONAIRE

was drinking stone blazed on the little finger of his A MODERN girls' school THE

HE mountain-dwellers THE millionaire

The champagne the first time I saw left hand.

gemma might have with showers and

are tough, hospitable'.

him. There was nothing unusual in looked out of place on an English- sanatorium wastes hours daily and hard working. A traveller that, for in those days everyone man, but, they did nothing to detrect because all lessons must be is received with open arms, and drank champagne. The

of from that man's appearance.

monitors

town

A few nights later I happened to

the millionaire sat beside me because sit at the same table and this time

ous coolness were, however, speedily recognised in both countries, and the happy outcome, long before copied down and then learnt. payment is invariably refused. Santos, in Brazil, at that time, was a

kind of Eldonado, and the coffee I was curious and asked a waiter events in Spain took a decisive turn, There are no text-books in the Sometimes, in the most desolate "boom" had filled many pockets with about him. was a renewal with fresh bonds of and Tosk dialects differ so great traveller his wife in

Albanian languages (the Gheg parts, the host will offer a gold.

"That is Senhor Roberto Mourn, the true But this particular drinker of coffee millionaire," sald the'waiter. the old Anglo-Portuguese friendly as to be almost separate Oriental style.

champagne attracted my attention. I had heard of him, his wealth, his ship.-It-is-naw-12-months-since-a languages).

He Was "Bilting-alone at a table in the generosity and his success with the British mission drawn from all

The lowlanders are lazy, cun- Casino. Before him the silver bottle opposite sex. The school is run by foreign ning, avaricious, effeminate and pall swarted ice cold moisture. The three fighting services went to Lis-mistresses, for until Zog came bored with life. One of their man drank the pale gold liquid with- bon to survey with Portuguese re-into power no Albanian woman greatest pleasures is to visit the were above such minor delights of out any apparent satisfaction, as if he presentatives common problems of was considered worth educating. barber's shop, where they spend the body.

the place was busy. He spoke a few strategy and supply so thorough The girls themselves choose hours being shaved, curled and He was exceptionally handsame in then became more friendly. During words of polite conventionality, and who dictate punish massaged. were its discussions and so complex ments, govern the school, and

typical South American fashion the evening an attendant brought Dark, warm skin and glowing black him a note. The millionaire glanced the practical difficulties that it was make suggestions to the Minister Zog is always preaching thrift, eyes contrasted strongly with flashing t it, frowned, looked rather puzzled, only at the end of the year that the of Education.

for the average Albanian has a white teeth when once he smiled to

and then handed me the note, members finally returned. Tho Zog has banned veils, but hard time wresting a living passing friend. His clothes were

you mind reading that?" misalan certainly enhanced the ties Moslem priests frown on bare from the barren soil, with little perfect, not because they were made my great surprise, he said "Would

in London, but because there are

I looked at the paper. Feminine of sentiment which united Britain legs-so the girls play basket fun now that feuds have been good tailors elsewhere. and her oldest ally. Apart from ball under a blazing sun in long heavily and ever-increasingly in was common in Santos at use time him as usual. to-morrow."

He were no more jewellery than writing said that she would meet It was black stockings and voluminous the practical work accomplished, it frocks. To "protect them from debted to Italy, is riddled with Three splendid diamonds shot gicams signed "Juunits." I was about to of coloured are from the snowy hand it back when the millionaire paved the way for an agreeable men," the girls are made to take graft and corruption.

whiteness of his shirt. One amazing sald, "Will you read it aloud; please?"

I did their daily walk along specially

I began to feel a certain contempt deserted routes.

for the man. Why should he' show me the felter if not to show me what a successful man he was. I felt that he was full of a childish vanity.

Some nights later he approached me again.

cultural interchange.

Well-wishers in both countries

Sometimes gambling is per-! have created in the past few months with the support of the British mitted, sometimes strictly for Council a British Institute in Lisbon bidden. It all depends on the Moslem feast of Ramadan. Then and an Anglo-Portuguese Society in the ban is lifted to compensate London. It is under the auspices of for the fast. Every night for a the latter that Londoners are now month tombolas are held in cafes being privileged to hear lectures on all over the country. Sturdy Portugal and a concert in which mountain-dwellers pour into the Portuguese artists of the standing towns and villages to risk their hard-earned leks, getting wildly of Madame Suggla will take part. excited as the winning numbers It is certainly time that two peoples ara, drawn from a bag. of proud and fertile literary tradi- tions came to know one another more familiarly. Portugal hna al-

TIRANA, where Govern- randy shown herself appreciative of

ment oficials and bored the new stimulus given three years foreign diplomats live, has two ago to English studies at Coimbra, main streets of shops, a few the ancient University at which her poverty-stricken hotels, a collec- tion of new brick Government Prime Minister, Dr. Salazar, once buildings, a tiny House of Parlin- held a chair. Britain, where Portu- ment -and two ramshackle guese aludies ato ng yet more wooden cinemas. Each has only bojoured by individual scholars one projector, so there is a long than widespread among the cultur-pause between reels. Sometimes ed classes, has an excellent oppor up, but nobody seems to mind. the operator gets the recis mixed tunity of redressing past ignorance Few of the audience can read the Albanian sub-title projected underneath the screen.

During the intervals boys BRUSSELS, Apr. 5--King Leopold come round selling bottles of tentatively commissioned M. pop, pen-muta, oranges and dates. Hubert Plerlot to form a now. As the lower halves of their Cabinet---Unlled Press.

bodies are invisible; the manage-

has

Belgian Cabinet

banned. Moreover, the country,:

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LENDER

LOOP HOAL ANDROGY

"That Mrs. Bascomb called-she said to drop her divorce.

cecdings and make her a murder trial estimate!"

To

"I wonder if you will do me great favour?" he said, "But before I ask let me say that I feel I owe you on explanation. But, first of all, will you write a few words for me?****

Rather puzzled, I took the paper he offered and wrote down the words he dictated. It was a small noto making an appointment with a lady friend. By this time I wis both puzzled and annoyed, and no doubt my feelings. showed on my face,

Then the millionaire began to speak.

"Listen, my friend. "I have asked you to do this for me because I know you are discreet and I can. trust you. How do I know? Because I know faces. 1 am a millionaire because I

know faces.

"I am the son of a poor backwoods- man. My father and mother, lived in a mud and wattle house most of their days. myself

was reared in

I had none of the advantages

of an expensive education, but. I mado myself rich. I did so because I learned to know faces and read 'men's minds. "And so, to-day, 15.3 was born in n hút, can, live in' palace. All, as I' my,* beenise learned to Κποιν · faces.

who

"I asked you to read me that note the other night, and to write

this one to-night for two reasons." Ono, be cause I trust you and know you will be discreet. The other repren, my friend, is this-1 cannot weito, read. I never went to school." ..

Miner Watson

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