Reticence having gone out with small income-taxes and big families, 1 may mention that a happy event is expected in the New Year in the establishment of King Zog of Al-mania, who married the lovely Hungarian Countess Geraldine Apponyi, then earning her living in the Hu garian National Museum, last April King Zog is one of the most remarkable men thrown up by the War. Albania is traditionally a turbulent Country. Before the War there was a German Pripce William of Wied who tried- ruling it and lasted just six months. In 1920 Ahmed Bey Zogu appeared from nowhere, took ihe lead of the Albanian tribesmen and turned out the Italian troops who were occupying most of the country, and after many adventures became first president, then king of Albania Now the people eat out of his hand He has enforced many reforms. cleared public life of corruption. and started several hundred schools. His marriage, as you will remember, caused a sensation, he being a Mohammedan, the Countess a Roman Catholic. "The Vatican frowned, yet eventually bestowed a blessing when it saw that this masterful man meant to do without it. If his Queen presents bim with a son, his position will be stronger than ever. And as nobody appears to fancy the job of annexing Albania, it ought soon to be a comfortable country to withdraw to from the-squalis of other parts of Europe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.