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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

LBANIA is Europe's ment economise by giving them

craziest country trousers or shoes.

beautiful braided jackets, but no

Offer an Albanian a***

Sometimes films banned by cigarette, and he will shake

If other countries are shown, for his head and take it.

there is no censorship unless he's

he 8 non-smoker,

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 as censored operate daily between important scenes flicker centres. There is no running on the screen. They always water; every drop has to be give the celebrated Dietrich legs brought in petrol cans from wells a hearty clap. outside the town.

LIVING in state with generation asked me. "Six ex- Zog are three of his travagant women are a big drain

Albania's most hated man is Durazzo has a magnificent Abdurrahman Krosi, Zog's right- harbour which is always empty, hand man. Nobody seems to At the Queen Mary Hospital, for Albania has no merchant know who he is, but everybody six sisters. While their brother on the finances of a poor little

Jacqueline Mavis, only daughter fleet or navy. Buffaloes drag hates him, except the King. rarely ventures out for fear of country like ours." of Inspector and Mrs. W. A.

to kill vendetta killing, they go where With his usual cleverness, Russell, aged three years and five heavy carts slowly through Hundreds have sworn months. Funeral WIH pass cobbled city streets, yet power- him. As he sits in the Kursaal they like. The Albanian holds Zog chose for his wedding to Monument at 5 p.m.

ful modern cars dash along dried garden, soldiers and tough that no woman, not even a king's Countess Geraldine Apponyi- mud country roads. Inside may mountain fighters are ready at sister, is worth a bullet.

April 27 Just year- day be a farmer in native dress and ways to defend their dreaded

regi memorable in Albanian history. his well-groomed aon 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-

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615

April 6, 1939

They have their own

married--

From London you can tele- is said that Krosi's friends pros- ago they went to America to banian leader was phone every European country per and his enemies die. Every buy new clothes, for in Tirana Skenderberg, whose name is still except Albania. No cable crosses day a new atrocity story about fashionable things cannot be revered throughout this tiny 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 Greece or Yugo Cafes take the place of Eng- they had 90 pairs of shoes with Xhurdin, 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 men sit at the tables, dipping they are not popular in Albania. death.

just pick up the receiver and nak tiny cups of thick Turkish coffee "How can we expect our peo- Thus does time stand still in for Mr. So-and-So. If he's not and discussing what news the

a bad

Geoffrey Lucy

THE MILLIONAIRE

Britain And Portugal AM 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.

earnest young early stages was a slight estrange to the house he's visiting, for Their wives never go with them, own sisters show such

the two operators know every for in Albania a woman's place example?" an

Cabinet Minister of the new ment of view between Britain number by heart. Usually they is very much at home. Even' deliberately detached from the listen-in to conversations; some- the waitresses are foreign girls, struggle, and Portugal, whim a times they join in.

mostly from Hungary, Rumania contest waged just the other site

and Austrin. of her sole land frontiers acemed to affeel more intimately. The un-

millionaire was drinking stone. blazed on the little finger of his A MODERN girls' school THE mountain-dwellers THE

champagne the first time I saw left hand. The gems might have fortunate possibilities of any scri-

are tough, hospitable him. There was nothing unusual in looked out of place on an English- ous coolness were, however, speedily sanatorium wastes hours daily and hard working. A traveller that, for In those days everyone man, but, they did nothing to detract

lownz of from that man's appearance recognised in both countries, and because all lessons must be is received with open arms, and drank champagne. The the happy outcome. long before copied down and then garnt. payment is invariably refused. Santos, In Brazil, at that time, was a

I was curious and naked a walter kind of Eldondo, and the coffee 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.

will Albanian languages (the Gheg parts, the host

offer a gold.

"That Is Senhor Roberto Mourn, the was a renewal with fresh bonds of and Tosk dialects differ so great traveller. his wife in truc 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 now-12-months since a languagç3) ̈ ̈

He was sing alone at a table in the generosity—and his success_with_the... The lowlanders are lazy, cun- Casino. Before him the silver bottle opposite sex.

with showers and

British mission drawn from all The school is run by foreign ning, avaricious, effeminate and pall sweated ice-cold moisture. The A few nights. Inter I happened to 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 out any apparent satisfaction, as if he sit at the same table and this time presentatives common problems of was considered worth educating. barber's shop, where they spend the body. strategy and supply; so thorough The girls themselves choose hours being shaved, curled and monitors who dictate punish- were its discussions and so complex ments, govern the school, and

massaged.

were above such minor delights of the millionaire sat beside me because the place was busy. He spoke a few words of polite conventionality, and then became more friendly. During the evening an attendant brought him a note. The millionaire ginnced

He was exceptionally handsome in a typical South American fashion Dark, warm skin and glowing black

the practical difficulties that it was make suggestions to the Minister Zog is always preaching thrift, eyes contrasted strongly with flashing at it, frowned, looked rather puzzled,

only at the end of the year that the of Education,

clothes were

To

for the average Albanian has a white teeth when once he smiled to and then handeri me the nole.

my great surprise, he said "Would members finally returned. The Zog has banned veils, but hard time wresting a living passing friend. His

in Landon, but because there C mission certainly enhanced the ties Moslem priests frown on bare from the barren soil, with little perfect, not because they were made you mind reading that

I looked at the paper. Feminine legs-so the girls play basket fun now that feuds have been good tailors elsewhere.

He wore no more fewellery than writing said that she "would meet ball under a blazing sun in long banned. Moreover, the country,

to-morrow." It was black stockings and, voluminous heavily and ever-increasingly in-was common in Santos at the time. im as an

hand it back when the millionaire frocks. To "protect them from debted to Italy, is riddled with Three splendid diamonds that gleams signed "Juanita." I was about to of coloured fire from the snowy said, "Will you read it aloud, please?" men," the girls are made to take graft and corruption.

whiteness of his shirt. One amazing I did so. their daily walk along specially deserted routes.

of sentiment which united Britain and her oldest ally. Apart from the practical work accomplished, it paved the way for an agreeable cultural interchange.

Well-wishers in both countries have created in the past for months Sometimes gambling is per- with the support of the British mitted, sometimes strictly for- bidden. It all depends on the Council n British Institute in Lisbon 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 Portugucne artists of the standing towns and villages to risk their hard-earned leks, getting wildly of Madame Suggia will take part. excited as the winning numbers It is certainly time that two peoples are drawn from a bag. of proud and fertile literary tradi- tions came to know one another more familiarly. Portugal has al ready shown herself appreciative of the new stimulus given three years ago to English studies at Coimbra, the ancient University at which her

TIRANA, where Govern

ment officials and bored foreign diplomats live, has two a few main streets of shops, poverty-stricken hotels, a collec- tion of new brick Government. Prime Miniator, Dr. Salazar, once buildings, a tiny House of Parlia hold a chair. Britain, where Portu- | mont and two ramshackle guese studies ure a yet morowooden, cinemas. Each has only honoured by individual scholars one projector, so there is a long than widespread among the cultur pause between reels. Sometimes the operator gets the reels mixed- ed classes, has an excellent opporup, but nobody seems to mind. tunity of redressing part ignorance. Few of the audience can ́read the Albanian sub-title. projected underneath the screen.

During the intervals boys come round selling bottles of POP, pen-nuts, oranges and dates, As the lower halves of their bodies are invisible, the manrge-

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

cecdings asd make her a murder trial estimateľ"

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 The Was

full of a childish vanity.

Some nights later he approached me again

་་

wonder if you will do me 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 appointment with a lady friend By this time I was both puzzled and annoyed, and no doubt my feelings showed on my face."

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Then the millionaire began to

SPORA.

"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 · 1: know: faces. know faces, -

I am a millionaire because

"I am the son of a poor backwoods. man. My father and mother lived In a mud and wattle house most of their days. I, myself was reared in me. I had none of the advantages of an expensive education, but made myself rich. I did so because

Igarned to

to know faces 'and '" read men's minds. And so, to-day, I, who weg born in a hut, can live in palace. All, as I any, because learned to know faces.

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"aked you to read me that note the other night, and to write this one to-night for two reasons. One, be- caure I trust you and know you will be discreet. The other - reason, my friend, is this--I cannot write, rend. I never went to school."

Miller Watson