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Show AUSTRIA-HUNGARY GRANTS AUTONOMY TO THE ALBANIANS LOXDOX, March 10. Official announcement an-nouncement was made here today that Austria-Hungary lias issued a proclamation proclama-tion to the Albanians stating that it has granted autonomy to Albania under its protectorate. Influential Albanians have published from Saloniki, the statement state-ment says, a. protest saying the Austrian measure is useless because it is directed toward a country which, already independent, inde-pendent, has declared war on the enemies ene-mies of the entente. The purpose of the Vienna government govern-ment in issuing this proclamation, the statement adds, obviously is to justify the levy of men for its armies. After the occupation of Serbia and Montenegro by troops of the central powers all of Albania was taken over with the exception of the section in the south below Avlona, which is still held by the Italians. Essad Pasha, provisional provis-ional president of Albania, served with the Turkish a.rmy early in the war, but later left it, and declared waf on the central powers. |