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Show ONE GUN ENOUGH TO TERRIFY ARMY Special Cable tb The Tribune j LONDON August S Jack Heaton j Armstrong whose brother Captain Hea ton Arm rone s pr ate sec etarv to the king of A bania has just returned o I o don after a sta of severa weeks n Al bania, during ih ch he aeconrpan ed the loya st force of Prenk B b Doda on its march from AJess o toward Durazzo Mr Armstrong a debonair monac ed younj? Eng shman commanded the Prenk s art ery cons st ng of one Austr an mountain gun The Prenk who is a M rd te ch ef and accord ng to Mr Arm strong a most po shed gentleman eet out from Aless o at the head of about a thou iand of h s own tribe and an equal num ber of Mai sso to go to the re ef of he king bes eged in h s cap tal The first objective was the rebel st ongho d 1 of Ishm where a few she s f om the moun aln gun soon cleared the rebels out of the town It was curious sa d Mv Armstrong i how the gun was a so t of fetish to the I A banians The rebels wou d never stand i she 1 fire wh e our own men would run I to me for the gun on the s ghtest ex cuse My eyeglass was an object of great Interest to them They bel eved it was ' essental to the work ng of the gun and i I d d not d spe the i uslon but kept the 0 ass In my eve whenever an A ban an j vas in s ght Every emot on the A ban an I exper ences s expressed tn w d shooting I Sad or g ad angry or e ated he fires off i h s riflfw But one could not get hem to advance aga nst trenches A Ma cuchl ! where the force ult mate v d sbanded a I few she s from he gun c eared the rebe s ! out of the r pos t ons but our men re I ma ned in the valley expending thousands ! of rounds of ammunition in more no se. J |