The Archive · 1939

Albanian Crown Offered

Budapest, Apr. 11 The "Eight O'Clock Gazette" re ports from Rome today under big headlines that King Victor Emmanuele will accept the crown of Albania According to the paper's Rome correspondent, Italian diplomatic circles assure that the incorporation of Albania in the Italian Imperium will very shortly be an accomplished fact.

The correspondent her si that rumours current in Rome m tion the end of Ai date of King Victor coronation in Tirana Emmanuele's The King will, it is believed, subsequently be ro presented in Albania by Viceroy —Trans-Ocean.

General Assembly jed Rome, Apr. 11 The provisional Albanian Council has summoned for a meeting in Tirana at 4 p.m. tomorrow the General Assembly composed of delegates from all provinces representing all classes of the population. The Council has instructed all Albanian diplomats abroad to abstain from any activities until the receipt further orders—Havas Navigation Ban May Be Lifted in Shantung Registered Chinese Ships May Be Allowed to Trade Tsingtao, Apr. 11 Restrictions against Chinese navigation along the Shantung coast imposed by the Japanese naval Authorities since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese conflict in Shanghai, will be partially lifted soon, it was Yéarned here today.

Vessels owned by members of the Federated Shipping League, carrying permits issued by the League, will be permitted to operate and engage in trade along the Shantung coast and along the Kiangsu coast north of the Sheyang River under the new regulations.

Navigation and trade along "bandit-infested" coasts will remain forbidden. however, it was stated—Domei German Refugees from Poland Arrive Danzig, Apr. 10.

Nearly 100 German refugees arrived here from Poland over the Easter holidays. With the exception of two Reich Germans, all of them, including many women and children, are Polish subjects who fled across the frontier escape persecution by the Poles. The National People's Welfare Society is caring for them. The women refugees stated that their houses had been partly demolished and their husbands arrested by the Poles with-

Gen. Weygand Goes To Teheran

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