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Died. Baroness Nancy Fish Barnum Callius d'Arengian; onetime wife of Phineas Taylor Barnum, famed U. S. showman; in Paris. After Mr. Barnum's death in 1891 she married Demetrius Callius Bey, Greek, and after his death-D'Alexandry d'Arengian, Frenchman...
When representatives of the five Powers and six smaller nations comprising the Council of the League of Nations* assembled at Geneva last week for their regular quarterly meeting, they found that a document pregnant with international discord had been filed with the League by order of President-Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania...
Such action pertinently suggested that Jugoslavia, after breaking off relations with Albania, would shortly declare war. The Albanian note to the League Council last week was therefore in the nature of a national alibi, registered with the League, so that, if war breaks out, Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania may disclaim all responsibility before the world...
...neat, unvarnished stair, and is stopped by two rugged guards in black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
This much is certain, that Ahmed Bey Zogu is no mere young adventurer in the pay or under the dominant spell of Dictator Mussolini. His tribal family is among the most ancient in Albania, and its wild, remote highland strongholds between Tirana and Scutari are probably impregnable to an army not especially equipped for mountaineering. There Ahmed Bey Zogu is not so much President of Albania as Chief of the Mati tribes...