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Show TOY CAPITAL' . ';. :" ; F-.' ,1 Diplomats Are Gathering in Primitive City of Southern Europe TIRANA, Albania, June 3. The distinction of being the "toy capital of Europe" so long enjoyed by Cet-tlnjt". Cet-tlnjt". the old site of the palace and court of King Nicholas, of Montenegro, Montene-gro, falls now to Tirana, the capital of Albania, where regents, chiefs, boys, mlnl.-dors and diplomats are beginning be-ginning to congregate to set up the governmental magnificence of the new-state, new-state, the last to be admitted into the league of nations. Tirana still burns oil for linht She has no communication with the outside out-side world except a wagon-road leading lead-ing to "her seaport," Durazzo. 3ho boasts a market place and five mosques aptl has lately adapted an old building into a hotel called "Tho In-tern.itlnnal In-tern.itlnnal hotel." The government palaces arc scattered throughout her winding, narrow streets, which are lined with merchants displaying their wares sitting with crossed legs jn the Arab fashion. Th stores and hpWles, roofed with a red tile, are all of one story. Distinction Dis-tinction in given the government buildfnars in the fact that they have two stories All are old buildings adapted to the use of government by the introduction of a few chairs and de.ks Each building has no nm.-o-than six or eight rooms. The milliliters millili-ters enter their offices with great 1 solemnity and ceremony. Orderlies ' and ushers stand ut attention while the heads pass. Inside his office, tho ' minister calls his ushers by an old-1 old-1 fashioned table bell, electric bells be-1 be-1 ing wholly unknown in this priml-' priml-' tlve land With stern severity, everyone every-one addresses the minister as "Your excellency " Diplomats have only a legal residence resi-dence In Tirana. Minister Ayers. he ; British plenipotentiary, who has the . unique dignity of heinL.' tne represen-I represen-I tath e o fthe only country to recog-I recog-I nize Albania formally. lives in DurJ:-zo. DurJ:-zo. making the trip to Tirana when slate functions demand it. Italy also al-so maintains a diplomatic residence in Dutazzo. |