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Show ALBANIANS REFUSE TO ACCEPT REFORMS; WAR r CLOUDS IN THE EAST CONSTANTINOPLE. April 16. It !s now understood that the commission sent by the Sultan to appease the Albanians Al-banians failed to secure their adhesion to the reform scheme of the powers, except ex-cept on the condition that the Albanians be allowed to choose their own Governors Gover-nors and civil officials and that other minor concessions be granted them. . The Porte, has decided to establish a military campaign at Berisovitch and has ordered nineteen battalions to concentrate con-centrate there in view of the possible eventual operations against the Albas, iana. Great uneasiness has been aroUBed in Turkish Government circles by tha .reports .re-ports that the Bulgarians in Macedonia are preparing for a general rising April 20th, the second day of the Easter festivities fes-tivities of the orthodox church. I BELGRADE, Servla. April 16. At a j banquet given at the palace yesterday ' evening in celebration of the tenth anniversary an-niversary of King Alexander's accession acces-sion to the throne, the King made a speech in which he referred to the grave situation in the East, saying fateful times were approaching for all the. peoples of tha Balkan peninsula and Servla must be ready to strike at the proper-moment. He sleo congratulated himself on the fact that-hs marriage to Queen Draga had met with the approval of the people. peo-ple. ,, " Referring to his recent proclamation, the King said Servla had no time, for experimenting and lv? had therefore been compelled to restore the constitution constitu-tion to its original condition. |