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Show BALKANS AGA1H BEFORE LEAGUE ALBANIA'S APPEAL AGAINST JUGO-SLAVIA MAY CAUSE SPECIAL MEET Representatives Now In Geneva Are Busy Circulating Information That They Are In Need of Help Geneva. Actively supporting Al-Una's Al-Una's appeal to the league of nations jegnlnst Jugo-Slavia is Dr. B. Blin-Ishtl, Blin-Ishtl, Albinia's permanent representative represen-tative in Geneva, who spent a strenu-jpus strenu-jpus Sunday circulating information in en endeavor to justify the appeal of Bishop Fan S. Noli, Albana's bishop-jpromier, bishop-jpromier, for intervention. Dr. Bllnishti issued a series of com-jnunlques com-jnunlques fresh from Bishop Noli at (Tirana, insisting thut the people of (Albania, far from revolting against the existing regime, have become more united in "combating the foreign for-eign invader." Jungo-Slavia is proclaimed pro-claimed as the invader. Further, the communiques allege the seizure of guns near the frontier bearing marks which prove that they were furnished furnish-ed by the Jugo-Slavian army. Prisoners captured by Bishop Noli's legions are claimed in the communiques commun-iques to have admitted that they participated par-ticipated in incursions into Albania !by orders of the commander at Priz rend. One of the statements says !that "soldiers of Bulgarian origin iwho had taken refuge in Jugo-Slavia 'ore also among the invaders and are (in charge of the heavy and light ar-itillery." ar-itillery." It declares that "the entire 'transport of munitions and general war material is being done by Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia automobiles." 1 Another communiques issued by Dr. Blinishti characterizes as an invention out of the whole cloth the report that the insurgent chiefs at El Bas-aan Bas-aan condemned to death Premier Noli 'and all the members of the ministry. Meanwhile the council of the league of nations, which has just completed a session in Rome, finds itself confronted con-fronted with a Balkan conflict which it is recognized will require delicate handling and which probably will necessitate ne-cessitate a special meeting of the council. Premier Noli himself, who likes to make the journey to Geneva and whose picteresque and ironical address ad-dress at the last assembly of the council made him the most outstanding outstand-ing figure which had visited Geneva in some time, still is actively seeking seek-ing a loan for his country. As he sauntered through the streets of the city he was easily recognized by his bushy black beard and was pointed but by many as one of the most curious cur-ious political figures in Europe. Some advices reaching Geneva insist that the failure of Premier Noli to raise the loan needed to give realization to his democratic dreams is one of the chief causes for his present difficulties. dif-ficulties. The Geneva Tribune declares the present revolution is a natural counter coun-ter coupe of the Albanian events in July; that it is the logical sequence of the unceasing struggles which smeared with blood the reign of the Prince of Weid and brought into conflict con-flict since the proclamation of independence inde-pendence the feudal clans and groups of nationalist democrats now led by Noli. |
