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ROME. June 13— (Correspondence of the Associated
Press.) The Italians are doing in Albania exactly what
Americans did in the Phillippines in helping and uplifting
a population in need of guidance and encouragment, Gen
eral George Scriven.Millitary attache at the American Em
-bassy, said to the Associated Press correspondent upon
his return from a journey of five weeks through that part
of Albania which occupied by the Italians.
“Had it not been tor the work ot the Italians theie.
the poor Albanians would have starved,” General Scriven
said . “ The Italians have given these people food, employ
ment, education and security. \\ heat, corn and rice free to
the indigent and sold at reasonable prices to those who
could afford to pay for it. Experimental farms have been
opened, schools have been instituted and, most impoitaiiv
on all courts of justice which hitherto had been unexistant
in the country have been established and Albanian judges
placed at their heads whenever possible.
"Although the Italians are fighting the Bulgarians
and the Austrains on the frontiers, the work there is not :
the work of war but one of civilization, and the ground
there is most favorable to such work for the reason that
the Albanian is an honest man of good character,possess
ing ti e primitive virtues of courage, truthfulness and ac
-tivity. lie has the highest respect for women, who can
travel f -om one end of Albania to the other without being
molested.
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l>ri? amiajze lias Vliiuau\ num jrwuama,
and the Albanians w eleome the Italians as benefactors and
friends. Several hundred miles of beautiful, durable roads
have been built: tunnels, bridges and railroads have been
constructed. Nine piers have been erected in Yalona bar
bor and eight in Santa Quaranta. Barracks, and hospitals
containing 1,000 l>eds, nave been established. In order to
have the practice of burying the dead in the center of the
villages disc nui. ued. cemeteries have been created in the
outskirts t f villages and towns. Telegraphic, telephonic
and wireless stations have been established and the Ital
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ians arc engaging in reclaiming the marshy zone surround
-ing Valona and comprising about 6,000 acres.
“The Albanians are great admirers of America,” add :
el General Scrievn, "although only recently have they be-!
gun to emigrate there.” In this connection, General Seri-j
veil quoted one of the leading Albanians, a man who has
been to America, as saying to him:“The invasion of Albana
by the Balkan states, accompanied by harrowing atrocit
ies on unarmed population, thousands of shepherds and
farmers being slaughtered, towns and villages destroyed
farms burned, flocks devasted and stolen, and hundreds of
thousands of refugees flocking into Valona half starved S
and perishing from hunger and exposure, have caused the
begining of imigration to the United States. The adverage
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American is probably unaware that 60,000 Albanians have
gone to the United States since the begining of the war.”
Albania by Italian troops has proved the salvation of the
remaining Albanians and the revival of the Albanian oat
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NEW YORK, June 13—Announcement has been
received here that Jacques Seligmann, of Paris and New
York, has gauranteed the rent for three yeas of tre Chea
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the Chateau at the service of blinded soldiers of the Allies
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BUXOS AIttES, June 13 — Arg
entina’s financial and economic cond
tion apparently is being strengthened
as the war drags on. The republic re
cently assigned a convention for finan
I cing the sale of several million tons of
j cereals to the Entente Allies, which
I really amounted to a huge loan, and
I chore have been other events in finan
! cial circles winch show that Argentine
j credit abroad and confidence at home
arc progressing hand in hand.
The fact that is being most widely
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newspapers is that confidence at home
has became so strong that stocks of
the National Mortage Bank, known
as “credulas hipotecarias” are being,
quoted at pa rfor the first time in their
history. These codulas are loked upon
in financial circles as barometers of
the nation’s condition, for htey are sh
ares in a bank which is backed by the
government and they fluctuate with
the improvement or weakening of gov
ernment credit Usually they are quo
ted around 94 to 96 and they have neve
gone to par even during the boom sea
sons when everything else was being
sought by investors.
how there is an animated compenti
tion on the Stock Exchange for these
ccdulas and large blocks of them are
changing hands daily, which the news
papers take as an indication that the
public’s confidence in the Irigoyen
government has became so strength
ened that it, at last, is willing to in
vest in government shares the large
surplus of money which has been ly
ing idle in savings hanks ever since
the war began.
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