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Show 50,000 AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS LEAVE ALBANIAN FRONT PARIS Mav 22, 5:15 a. m. A neutral diplomat who has just returned from Albania Al-bania is quoted in a dispatch to tne Matin from Athens as saying that the Austrians Aus-trians have withdrawn 50.000 troops from Albania in the last three weeks. Accord-in" Accord-in" to this diplomat, the Austrians have left only small detachments to guard the towns they have occupied, leaving a gai-rison gai-rison of 300 at Fiera andOO at Berat. The remainder of the troops left In the country coun-try are concentrated at tlurazzo. . The abandonment of the Albanian front is said to be due to the impossibility of 1 bringing up supplies. The statement that the Austrians are withdrawing their main forces from Albania Al-bania apparently conflicts with recent dispatches dis-patches from Athens and Paris, which stated that the Teutons were about to launch an attack in force against Avlona. the only town that remains in the possession pos-session of the Italians. On May 19 the Austrians were reported" to have assembled assem-bled a fleet of 150 transports at Flume to transport troops and supplies to Du-razzo. |