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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. beautiful braided jackets, but no

trousers or shoes. 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 a non-smoker, he there is no censorship unless will

somebody objects. nod and refuse. ans strictly Albania abounds with brought up |strange things like that.

with regard to

women, gasp in shocked delight

Albani

They always

It has no radio station or rail- way, yot modera air services as censored operate dally 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.

Albania's most hated man is Durazzo has a magnificent Abdurrahman Krosi, Zog'a right- harbour which is always empty, land man.

LIVING in state with generation asked me. "Six, ex- Zog are three of his travagant women are a big drain Hospital, for Albania has no

Nobody seems to fleet or navy. Buffaloes drag hates him, except the King, rarely ventures out for fear of country like ours."

merchant know who he is, but everybody six sisters. While their brother on the finances of a poor little henvy 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 Kursai they like. The Albanian holds Zog chose for his wedding to ful modern care 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. be a farmer in native dress and ways to defend their dreaded

April 27 last year a day." 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 phone every European country per and his enemies die. Every buy new clothes, for in Tirana Skenderberg, whose name is still

you can tole- is said that Krosi's friends pros ago they went to America to banian leader was married except Albania. No cable crosses day a new atrocity story about fashionable things cannot be revered throughout this tiny the Adriatic to Italy or the high him is whispered at cafe tables, from America in the Queen Mary many Albanians still wear the bought. When they returned Balican country. Even "to-day mountains to Greece or Yugo- Cafes take the place of Eng: they had 90 pairs of shoes with hardin, a thick black jacket,. Slavia. But the inland service lish pubs and clubs. All day them. Extravagant and proud, in mourning for this hero's is the simplest in the world. You med sit at the tables, cipping they are not popular in Albania, death. just pick up the receiver and ask tiny cups of thick Turkish coffee "How can we expect our pen- for Mr. So-and-So. If he's not and discussing what news the

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the Spanish Civil War in its at home you can be put through censor allows them to hear. Die to economist 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 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: example?" an earnest young Edeliberately detached from the listen-in to conversations; some the waitresses are foreign girls,

Even Cabinet Minister of the new struggle, and Portugal, whom a times they join in. contest waged just the other aide

mostly from Hungary, Rumania and Austria.

of her sole land frontiers seemed

to affect more intimately. The un-

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A MODERN girls' school

with showers and

THE MILLIONAIRE

"

about him.

I was curious and aried a waiter:

"That is Senhor Roberto Moura, the coffee millionaire," said the waiter. I had heard of him, his wealth, his generosity and his success with the opposite sex.

sit at the same table and this time

A few nights later I happened to

the millionaire sat beside me because then became more friendly. During the place was busy. He spoke a fow Words of polite conventionality, and the evening an attendant. brought t it, frowned, looked rather puzzled, him a note. The millionaire glanced

and then handed me the note.'

To

THE millionaire was THE mountain-dwellers

drinking stone blazed on the little finger of his ous coolness were, however, speedily sanatorium wastea hours daily and hard working. A traveller that, for in those days everyone muit, but, they did nothing to detract

are tough, hospitable" him."

champagne the first time I saw left hand. The gems might have There was nothing unusual in looked out of place on an English- recognised in both countries, and because all lessons must be is received with open arms, and drank champagne. The town

from that man's appearance. the happy outcome, long before copied down and then learnt. payment is invariably refused: Santos, in Brazil, at that time, was a 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 kind of Eldorado, and the coffee was a repewal with fresh bonds of Albanian languages (the Gher parts, the host will offer a gold. the old Anglo-Portuguese friend-jy as to be almost separate Oriental style."

and Tosk dialects differ so great- traveller his wife in true

But this particular drinker of ship. It is now 12 months since a languages).

champagne attracted my attention. He was sitting alone at a table in the British mission, drawn from all The school is run by foreign

The lowlanders are lazy, cun- Casino. Before him the silver bottle -three-fighting services went to Lle-mistresses, for until Zog came bored with life.

ning,-avaricious, effeminato and pail-swepted-ice-cold moisture. The bon to survey with Portugueso re-into power no Albanian woman greatest pleasures is to visit the out any apparent satisfaction, as if he One of their man drank the pale gold liquid with- presentatives common problems of was considered worth educating. barber's shop, where they spend the body.

were above such minor delights of strategy and supply; so thorough The girls themselves choose hours being shaved, curled and He was exceptionally handsome in were ita discussions and so complex ments, govern the school; and monitors who dictate punish-

massaged.

a typical South American fashion the practics! difficulties that it was make suggestions to the Minister

Zog is always preaching thrift, eyes contrasted strongly with flashing Dark, warm skin and glowing black only at the end of the year that the of Education.

for the average Albanian has a white teeth when once he smiled to a members finally returned. The Zog has banned veils, but hard time wresting a living passing friend. His clothes were misalon 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 sald-Would

in London, but because there are you mind reading that?” a of sentiment which united Britain legs-so the_girls play basket fun now that feuds have been good tallors elsewhere.

I looked at the paper. Feminine- and her oldest ally. Apart from ball under a blazing aun in long banned. Moreover, the country,

He wore no more Jewellery than writing said that she "would meet the practical work accomplished, it frocks. To "protect them from debted to Italy, is riddled with Three splendid diamonds that gleams hand it back when the millionairo black stockings and voluminous heavily and ever-increasingly in was common in Santos at the time him as usual to-morrow." It was signed "Juanita." I was about to paved the way for an agreeable men," the girls are made to take graft and corruption.

of coloured fire from the snowy said, "Will you read it aloud, please?" cultural interchange...

their daily walk along specially

whiteness of his shirt. One amazing I did so. Well-wishers in both countries deserted routes. have created in the past few months Sometimes gambling is per- with the support of the British mitted, sometimes strictly for Council a British Institute in Lisbon bidden. It all depends on the and an Anglo-Portuguese Society in the ban is lifted to compensate Moslem feast of Ramadan. Then London.. It is under the auspices of for the fast. Every night for a the latter that Londoners are now being privileged to hear lectures on Portugal and a concert in which Portuguese artists of the standing of Madame: Suggia will take part. It is certainly time that two peoples of proud and fertilo literary tradi- tions came to know one another more familiarly, Portugal has al ready shown herself appreciative of }'

month tombolas are held in cafes all over the country. Sturdy mountain-dwellers pour into the towns and villages to risk their hard-earned leka, getting wildly excited as the winning numbers are drawn from a bag.

TIRANA, where Govern

ment officials 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 unclent University at which her poverty-stricken hotels, a collee-

tion of new brick Government- Prime Minister, Dr-Salazar, ones held a chair. Britain, where Portu ment

buildings, a tiny House of Parlia

and two ramshackle gueso studies are as yet more wooden cinemas. Each has only honoured by Individust scholars one projector, so there is a long than widespread among the cultu pause:between reels. Sometimes ed classes, has an excellent oppor- the operator gets the reels mixed:

up, but nobody scams to mind. tunity of redressing post ignorance. Few of the audience can read the Albanian sub-title projected. underneath the screen.

Belgian Cabinet

BRUSSELS, Apr. 6-King Leopold 10s tentatively commissioned: M. Hubert Pierlot to form a new Cabinet-United Press.

M

During the intervala: boys come round selling bottles of pop, pos-nuts, oranges and dates. As the lower halves of their bodies are invisible, the manage

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

JATTORNEY

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

ramme ceedings-ard make her a murder triál esthilatér”

I began to feel a certain contempt for the man. Why should he show~~ me the letter if not to show-me what a successful man he was. I felt that he was full of a childish vanity.

Some nights later

ter he approached

me againis!

"I wonder if you will do me a great favour?" he said. "But before I ask let me say that I feel I owe you an explanation. But, arst 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 note making an appéintment with 'a ladyfriend, By this time I was 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 face I am a millionaire because know faces.

"I

am

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son of a poor backwoods-- man. My father and - mother: Lived In a mud and wattle house meat of their days. I myself was reared in unc.

· ́1

All

(bad moses of the ladvánurges. of an expensive education, but made myself rich. I did so because: I learned to know faces and read" men's minda And so, to-day, I, who was born inin hut can lives ind ge palace.

as my, because learned to know faces,

"I asked you to read me that note the other night, and to write this one? to-night for two reasons!- Ono, bé--- emilto I trust you and know you will be discreet. The other reason, my friend, in this I cannot writer are. read/ - I never went th schedule

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