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Bishop Noli is a totally different kind of a man from Ahmed Zogu. In 1908 he founded the Albanian Orthodox Greek Church, became its Bishop. From 1902-12 he attended Harvard and learned a great deal about American life and politics. Returning to Tirana, he was able to keep an eye on the Government, of which he strongly disapproved, and to keep the tribal leaders in the provinces posted on the trend of events. He is extremely well-informed, intelligent, speaks seven languages. His influence over recent events was stated to have been great and, as he has powerful...
Mahammad Djemal Bey, Albanian, medical student, studying in Berlin, stabbed his former fiancee in the arm because she had jilted him. For that he was arrested. At his trial he said: "The law of my country says that disgrace can be atoned for only by a drop of blood. It is not right to humiliate me by ignoring me. I had the right to take her blood in retaliation for the wrong she had done...
...town of Tirana, capital of Albania, a little advertised but none the less bitter controversy was waged over the future Albanian Government. Is it to be Monarchical or Republican? That is the question which Albanian Deputies of the Constituent Assembly were discussing during the past week over their cups of Turkish coffee...
There is only one decent hotel and all the Albanian Deputies (with their wives and families) tried to get into it. Many of them were sleeping six in a room...
...with the Council of Ambassadors. She said that the Italian fleet had returned to Corfu (Italy denied this) and that she had not shown negligence in trying to discover the Janina criminals. Under the latter heading she pleaded extenuating circumstances, stating that, she was unable to pursue investigations on Albanian soil, where the murderers are presumed to have sought refuge...