Word: durazzo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albania's, since the country had only two. They dropped no bombs but leaflets fluttered down in the spring breeze announcing that "friendly" Italian troops were arriving that day to take over the country and "reestablish order, peace and justice." At four Albanian seaports, the nearest one (Durazzo) only 25 miles from Tirana, warships soon hove into sight, began bombarding. Troops were landed. A skirmish or so developed. The little Albanian army of 13,000 was quickly mobilized, and hardy mountaineer fighters brought out their ancient rifles, pistols, carved daggers...
...June tempers were at the snapping point. Six Italian cruisers and 16 smaller craft steamed into the harbor of Durazzo and Albanian troops started digging trenches on the hillside. Two British officers, Major General Sir Jocelyn Percy and a Major Cripps, instructors to the Albanian gendarmery, did more than anything else to prevent an open break. The cruisers were withdrawn, and last week reason returned to Puppet Zog. He was persuaded by Benito Mussolini to accept a handsome loan with which to buy more munitions from Italy. Ten thousand Italian settlers will be admitted and Italian officers will continue...
Without firing the customary salute, without notice of any kind to King Zog, the Italian squadron of 19 war boats entered the Albanian harbor of Durazzo and cast anchor. Scared Albanians begged particulars which Admiral Cantu, somewhat embarrassed, seemed unable to give. "The relations between Italy and Albania are so friendly," he asserted, "that there is nothing unusual about our visit, sudden though...
Since orders are emphatically orders when they come from Il Duce, Admiral Cantu and his 19 ships stayed on. Vexed Paris editors pointedly recalled Wilhelm II's high-handed dispatch of the warship Panther to Agadir in 1911 as a threat to France. The Italian demonstration at Durazzo apparently was II Duce's answer to M. Barthou who had just told a madly cheering Rumanian Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest that under the post-War treaties "Peace is restored to you and your frontiers! They will remain yours. You should know that if a square centimetre of your...
...than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, On the Forgotten Road...