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Show It does seem rather a ridiculous thing for the six great Powers of Europe to make such a fuss about sending a combined fleet into the Adriatic, for the purpose of anchoring off the coast of Albania and frightening the people of that poor, Turkey-misruled country into submission to the Berlin decree. The "demonstration" was undoubtedly proposed as much with a view to intimidate the Sultan as to dispel the Albanians, but as the Sultan has been let to consider the whole thing as a sort of holiday display, and as the warlike people in the mountains of Albania have had plenty of intimations that their military visitors are instructed to do everything but fight, there will probably be about the squadron's movement as much farce as ?? -Examiner and Chronicle. |