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Show INSURGENTS RAGE OUTSIDE DURAZZO - ALBANIAN PRINCE SEEKS SAFETY IN PALACE, GUARDED BY ITALIAN MARINES. Rumored That New Ruler Has Been Forced to Abdicate, Although He Had Been Placed on the Throne By the Powers. Durazzo, Albania. Prince William of Albania, formerly Prince Willian of Wied, upon whom the rulership of Albania Al-bania was conferred by the powers last February, is again in the palace of Durazzo, guarded by Italian marines. ma-rines. Outside the city the insurgent supporters sup-porters of Essad Pasha, former minister min-ister of war, who, "a few days ago, was .deported, are threatening the existence exist-ence of the "new regime. It has been rumored that Prince William has signed a treaty of abdication. abdica-tion. The Italian minister at Durazzo in a dispatch to his government says an engagement occurred between the insurgents in-surgents and the gendarmerie, which resulted in the capture of the Dutch officers of the gendarmerie. He further fur-ther indicates that Prince William, under un-der compulsion, has signed a document conceding certain of the insurgent demands. de-mands. Almost insuperable obstacles, in the opinion of practical observers, have stood in .the way of evolving a state out of Albania. The race is divided into three large factions by adherence to the Mohammedan, Catholic and Orthodox Or-thodox religions, and there is further tribal and clannish subdivision, with the blood feud in full force |