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Show WILLIAMS RESIGNS HIS FOREIGN PDSI Secretary Bryan Issues Statement of Fact Without With-out Comment. NOTE SENT TO POWERS President Wilson Disclaims Responsibility for Utterances Utter-ances of Minister. WASHINGTON', Julv fi. Formal announcement an-nouncement of the rpfdgn.ition of ("jeorge Fred Williams as mlrilhter to Greece and Montenegro wa made late today at the stale department. Secretary Bryan Issued this statement without commi.-nt: Mr. WillUims requests Secretary Bryan to tender to the president his resignation as minister to Greece and Monthneiiio. lie says tho reason for his resignation as minister Is that he cannot comment on the situation In Albania as lie would like, under the restraint Imposed by his diplomatic posit Inn, and that he does not feel that lie can conscientiously keep silent with the knowledge which he has of what is being done. He says thai he considers the success suc-cess of nhe president more Important to t!ie world tlian all of the efforts of other nun, and does not wish to embarrass em-barrass him and wisht-B to thank him for the consideration which has been shown him. President Wilson Is expected to accept the resignation tomorrow and close the brief and extraordinary career of Mr. Williams as a diplomat. Had Already Resigned. Aroused over press dispatches coptinu-ally coptinu-ally (noting the minister as bitterly criticising conditions in the new kingdom king-dom of Albania and arraigning the responsible re-sponsible Kuropean powers, the president caused his teMijnaUon to be asked for by rahle last Friday night. It Is understood, under-stood, however, thai Mr. Williams, foresee fore-see i rig the inevitable, alrea-iv had the re lir nation on the way to Warning ton. This case is said to he without precedent prece-dent In the history nf the state depart-I depart-I ment. It is not retailer that an Amer-i Amer-i i'-an diplomatic represt-nta live ever be-' be-' fore has gone outside of h'.s post to dis-! dis-! cuss the ulfalrs of another country, j In the present instance the comment ' whs regarded by the state department as ; peculiarly untimely and ill-advised be-1 be-1 cnu.e ( the extreme 11 jealousy with which the Kuropean powers have guard- , ed the tangled Balkan problem from the injection nf new elements. Mr. Williams, who wa? a member of I congress yara aco, is a lawyer, and was apr minted to the diplomatic service from I Mas-sa-husetis. He is a close friend of. Secretary Bryan. Labor Organ's Views. LONDON, Julv 7 The Williams Incident Inci-dent is receiving little notice in the Brit- I Ish newspapers. The Dally Citizen, a la- j bor organ. In an editorial says: ' "We are not surprised that Mr. ! Williams has been invited to resign. He i obviously Is a remarkable personam v. t But diplomacy is not his line. His gifts of frank speech and invective are somewhat some-what embarrassing to the European em-basie, em-basie, where mn are permitted to say anything and everything except what they really think. There should not be any great upest In Albania if Prince -William were really replaced by Prince Williams." ' I Fall of Koritza. DURAZZO. Albania. July 6. Tt was reported re-ported here today that the Mussulman insurgents In southern Albania, who are hphting aeainFl the government of Prince William, had captured the Important town of Koritza. The troops of the garrison, which Included some Dutch and Austrian officers of the gendarmeries, were taken prisoners after they had offered of-fered a stout resistance. Powers Notified. WASHINGTON, July G. President Wilson lias notified the principal European Euro-pean powers that the United States disclaims dis-claims any responsibility for the statements state-ments rewarding Albania attributed to j George Fred Williams, American minis- i ler to Greece and Montenegro. |