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Officially, of course, there was of foreboding. evidences Albania was recognized as an entity, firmly linked to Italy by a treaty which does not expire until 1947.

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An even temper marked the country's five newspapers which

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goverrument that resolved, in the last analysis, down to King Zog. himself. But one had only to HONGKONG HOTEL

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ALBANIA

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other lies between Elbasan and the Jugo-Slay border.

Both are handily placed to block Jugo-Slav interference with the landing of Italian troops at Durazzo.

Strong ronde and bridges lead up to each chain. It should also be remembered that the Italian consuls at Scutari, Kortcha and Valona were all military officers. Communications such as ship- ping, radio, and airlines are either completely largely under Italian control; there are no railroads.

or

Thongkong Telegraph.tentions to increase its political patriotic song of the guerillas- troops, no deputy dared to op very high offices, according to

Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 April 11, 1939

Democracy and Religion

that a good God is to good govern-he attained. ment.

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IN the field of internal politics, Italy also safeguarded her in- terests and there was a faction of influential persons, led by a general, which was openly and ardently pro-Kalinu. As is so often the case when great Powers play with puppats, there was considerable bribery. It is impossible

the to estimate amount spent in this way, 1915 had been accorded. Italian cord to this poverty-stricken Likewise, it would not be dis- CERTAINLY there had been occupancy of Valona, it is true, land. It is equally true that creet to name recipients of decades Rome held such sway that when, favours; it is suficient to say no indication of Italy's in- was ended almost two

"go by an Albanian revolt. The Mussolini decided to land his they ranged up to holders of well-informed but unconfirm- for pose him that King Zog was ablo belief. A small Fascist "Vlora", another name cecupation untli last week. Valona-was forbidden to sooth doomed.

launched www What bothered the Jeremiahs of Italian pride. Italy, neverthe- Albania was the recent sequence less, retained the rocky island of

CCORDING to official figures It is apparent that in its poli- of Mediterranean events and the Saseno and constructed a strong fact that

provided by the Albanian tical activity Italy played the secret London get of fortifications known as treaty of 1915 has not yet been the "Gibraltar of the Adriatic." government, Italy loaned 63,000,- astute game. A powerful and Albania rabble-rousing Italian speaker forgotten by fascist imperialists. Saseno was merely a barren 000 gold franes to

than double the named Giro was employed by Tosk shepherds totul

Un the Albanian government, at annual revenue. DEMOCRACY, assailed from within There was the vague fear, now isle where

and without, is taking stock. In proved too well founded, that grazed their flocks. It was of

of Italian Joune and pay youth. Unofficially, it is widely the process, those who believe it to the Dure would no longer remain no earthly use to Albania, which official estimates of the sum Italian behest, to "organize" the

with the extensive had no navy. It did give Italy he the finest form of government yet satisfied developed are discovering how essen- economic and political influence complete control of the Adriatic ments range up to three or four known that Giro, one of the times this amount. But Italy original Fascist "Squadron of mouth and protection for her has not failed to receive com- Action" and an acquaintance of flat and indefensible Eastern

al. Mussolini, was ardently anti-Zog. Boiled down, the events pre-

benefits. Italy pensatory As the nature of democracy and of

ready held a tight grip on Although he undoubtedly did were coast. more ceding the occupation the altack

become t un

Albania never formally recog Albanian petroleum concessions, his sincere best to aid the stimu- apparent, the vital role of religion simply this: Italy made a great

sovereignty of Similar concessions in salt and lant Albanin's younger genera- about expanding, at the nised Italian will be perceived. Ideally, demo-fuss cracy accepts mon as spiritual, made expense of France, along the Suseno, but what might have cigarette paper monopolies were tion (despite the fact he speaks in the image and likeness of God, lines of ancient Rome. Despite been a diplomatic stumbling granted. The Albanian Italian only Italian) he had a recognised simply solved by Agricultural Association owns political value in keeping the capable of understanding the divine the undoubted prestige accom- block was

On Italian maps, two concessions; one near regime on tenterhooks. government well enough to be self-panying the fascist victory in glossing over.

The diplomatic interest governed. It expects men to reflect Spain, she was able to produce Suseno was Italian; on Albanian Valona, one near Shiiak. About concrete territorial gains. maps it was Albanian, in some measure the divine attributes no

In three hundred Italian peasant Italy in Albanian territory dates of justice, reason, kindness, liberty, Italian public opinion was aware Tirana the story was told that a families already inhabit the rich back to the days when Bismarck truthfulness, self-control. In so, Int of this. It could be assuaged, package addressed not long ago Shijak land which, in addition proposed to Rome that she as men fail to express these spiritual from time to time, by such to "Suseno, Italy" and arriving to providing fertile acres, is a abandoned her claims in the qualities, democracy fails.

Count at Valona, was returned to the good base for military operations terre irredente and seek compen- Majority rule, the representative Ciano's visit to Belgrade and it sender by Albanian authorities. Because of its proximity to sation across the Adriatic. In What is more, Italy 1917, General Ferrero, leading system, universal suffrage, free clec-

may have been completely satis. But there is no doubt that Italy Durazzo. tions, free competition, equal rights,fied by gains accruing from the intends to retain her hold here, possessed predominant. commer- an army of occupation, told the

equality. constitutional

But the ns she will in Albania itself, cial control and absorbed most Albanians: "We are bringing ' forms-none of these will guarantee Spanish enterprise.

is quite if the Albanians knew that theirs was The reason

evident of the Albanian exports of back to you the civilisation of the Romans and the Venetians." success of democracy spiritual content is lacking. Any of a small and friendless nation; when, flying across Valona Bay cement, food, wool, hides, etc.

did one can In tit-for-tat fushion, Italy did In 1926, the Pact of Tirana these may be made instruments of that it lies a scant fifty miles as the writer

of the Italian certain things for Albania in a signallised Italian aspirations basic ideal of across the Otranto straits; that see the outline tyranny unless the individual worth, independence, free-Rome has looked greedily East coast forty-seven miles away. military way and exacted bene for a sphere of influence (and, leven since the Turkish empire The final point in the London fits in exchange. The Albanian-incidentally, caused the-fall-of-a- dlom. and perfectibility is retained.

far as it concerns general staff was virtually under Jugo-Slav cabinet). Materialistic concepts have always decayed; and that choice and treaty, as

The army of attacked this deal. To-day two strategie sections of its const Albania, is that of Italian con- Italian direction. forms of materialiam are particularly would be gobbled up with great trol over an independent state. 9,500 officers and men (official active. One looks

as speed, small cost and little fear Whether or not Albanians cared statistics) was garbed in uni- IT would have seemed with this many-tentacled control over a merely an economic animal. A faulty of precipitating a European to admit it, this was a positive forms donated by Italy and arm- Marxist interpretation of history is crisis.

fact even before the invasion, ed with old Italian equipment. tiny nation that it would never partly to blame for this attitude.

And it is only fair to say that Two chains of fortiúcations were be necessary for Italy to occupy But it was re- Now a fairer and better society

this had by no means been en- completed under the direction of a portion of it. Increased should come out of an awareness of the way government THE possibility of an Italian tirely without advantage. Rome Italian military engineers. Each cognised that, in the event of a

result im expedition hung as a sword did great things for Albania in was a semi-circular affair ex- European war threatening, an has been abused for economic explol-

Sep- comprising tation. And a happier and more of Damocles in many patriotic the way of building roads, lend- tending for several kilometres occupation would

earthworks, mediately. During the stable society can be expected where minds in Albania. Diplomati ing money, stimulating econo- and men are free from economic injustices cally, Albania was in a weak mic development and sanitary cement, dug-outs and machine tember, 1938, crisis much con- One is in cern was raised about secret but reporta that and insecurity. But too often to-day position. For many years after improvement; benefits which no gun emplacements.

its de jure creation in the post- other nation was willing to ac- the Mati River section and the authoritative there is an ignorant and

Italian troupà had mobilised at it could always

Bari. Just four years before, emphasis on material and mechanistic

war treaties,

off motives. It teaches worker and em-

count upon the opposing in- terests of Italy and Jugo-Slavia ployer, farm and factory, producer " selfish and consumer, to pursue separate interest when the larger to safeguard its independence. interest of each is attainable only by Both powers made it clear that co-operation. It tends to animality, territorial aspirations in Albania hule and violence. It destroys demo- by each other would be regarded as inimical acts. However, the

friendship! of a new materialism'a binding Another form

Belgrade) extreme between Rome and on democracy attack

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a biological speelmen, whose virtue, mentally, Jugo-Slavia can never to the Italian courage and honesty are determined willingly agree by blood and soil. This combines occupation of the mainland of But with Fascism's mystical exaltation of the Balkan peninsula.

the state to make the individual Albania could no longer play merely a material unit to be merged both ends against the middle.

in a militarized muss for overcoming And, when Italy-with German

other races or states. Freedom of

thought or speech cannot be tolerated approval-resolved to swallow a const, in such totalitarianism. Worship of chunk of the Albanian

the state or of an individual symboli-Jugo-Slavin could not-dare not sing the state is substituted for interfere. Christupity. Persecution, intolerance,

and hate become virtues.

Democratle peoples may recognise

gave to

these forms of materialism most THE London. treaty clearly

certain countries ΟΣ Italy full sovereignty over ideologies. But they can find them the island of Saseno, the port of | operating among their own country- men-If not in their own thought. Valona, and "a territory suth- And it is primarily in thought that ciently extended to assure the! they must combated. It is la defence of these points." It was torically provable that more spiritunt

concepts of Delty have produced also agreed that if an indepen- better men und better governments. dont Albania were to be created, Men governed by Christianity's cade, it would remain under Italian men atriving to express the attributes

of a God who Is Truth, Love and control.

Principle, can hope to govern them- selves successfully.

In actual fact, the bulk of

these particular concessions of

GRIN AND BEAR IT

pr. 337 Dulled Porters Brakawa_Lum

By Lichty Albania prepared to heat

"—and now hand over that two weeks advance you got from the

..office!!!

what it feared was to be Italian attempt to occupy Durazzo when war vessels ap- peared unannounced at the har. bour; hasty defensive earth- works were actually thrown up.

What Italy will gain by actual control of Albania will depend upon the extent of her ambi- [tion now that she has occupied the country. Her action. (1) in- sures her stratogical position in the Adriatic; (2) serves as a base for possible further Balkan ponetration; (3) provides a cor- tain amount of good farm land. for her over-crowded peasantry; (4) acquires popular acclaim for the Fascist regime.

Within Albania there is not the mineral wealth that is to be found, for example, in Jugo- Slavia, but there are deposits of asphalt and nophtha near Valona; lignito around Tirana, Elbasan, Kortcha, Pogradetz and Tepeleni; copper near Puka and Kortcha; chromium near Pogradetz; lead in the northern districts; arsenic and cement: near Scular and Valona; and petroleum at Kuchova. Most of these are too far removed In- land to tempt more than econo mic exploitation.

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