THE ASHEVILLE TIMES.
PAGE ELEVEN.
AUSTRIA TRIED TO
DIVIDE BALKANS
AGAINST ALLIES
When Catcher McCarty, Gamest of Giants,
Hurt His Arm in the World Series
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1917
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Ruler of Albania Tells of R ejecting Bribe to Proclaim
War on Side of Central Powers Declares Entente
Defender of Small Nations-Albania Wants Free and
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Athens, Sept. 6. (Correspondence
; of Associated Press.) Essad Pasha,
the ruler of Albania, who is now lend
ing the Albanian brigade on-the'Sa-loniki
front and who will later cast
the vote of Albania at the peace con
gress, today gave it representative of
The Associated Press one of the secret
chapters of the outbreak of the Euro
pean war which has not before
been disclosed that Austria-Hungary,
wishing to divide the Balkan states
and turn them against Serbia and the
entente allies, offered him a life pen
sion of $200,000 a year if he. would
proclaim Albania as an ally of the ceu
tral powers.
The proposal was rejected with con
tempt, Kssad Pasha said. He dis
missed the representative of Austria
Hungary from purazzo, the Albanian
capital, and soon thereafter declared
war against Austria-Hungary und all
; its allies, He felt then, as he feels
jnow, that the interest of Albania was
'with the entente allies as the defend
ers and upholders of small nations,
and he preferred that with all the
hardships of war which he has since,
experienced, rather than the luxy
and leisure which Austrian diplomacy
held out to him as the price of Al
bania's leading the Balkan states into
the German camp.
Essad Pasha was a striking figure'
as he related this incident in the
course of a talk on AlUania's part hi
the war, and what they are looking
forward to at the end of the war. He
had Just come from the Saloniki front
for a short rest and to confer with the
high officials here and at Paris. He
was in full uniform of tan grey, fitting
snugly after the French form. The
red facings on the collar showed the
stars of his high command, for as a
ruler of Albania ho is commander-in-chief
of the army und navy, with the
status of a sovereign accompanying
his troops. On his breast was a cross
of war, placed there only a few days
ago by General Sarrail, the French
commander of all the entente forces
on this front. His dark face and black
eyes and mustache give him rather a
fierce look reflecting the adventurous
life he has led a sort of Rob Roy of
the Balkans otoce one of the Abdul
Hamid's most trusty generals, through
a score of bloody campaigns, and now
the ruler of Albania with the casting
vote of that sovereign state in the final
peace congress.
Defends Albania.
. Essad Pasha was asked as to the
charge that Albania is backward and
semi-Harbarous and not entitled to be
ranked as an independent nationality.
"That Is usually the charge," said
he, "when powerful nations have po
litical designs and ambitions on small
states. The first charge always is
that the small state is not capable of
looking after itself and needs some
strong nation to watch over it. That
is .the preliminary to absorption and
conquest. Albania has naturally at
tracted the covetous eye of some of
the stronger powers. It has a great
sea front lying along the eastern
Adriatic, with ports and harbors
which are of great strategic and com
mercial advantage to any power which
possessed them.
"That is doubtless one of the rea
sons that Albania is often represented
as backward, needing some powerful
neighboring state to look after her.
It has always been one of the favorite
methods for political extension and
conquest in the P.alkans. Austria felt
that l'.osnia and Hersogovlna were
not capable of looking after them
selves, and needed her help in order
to be. governed.
"Judged by modern methods, Al
bania has not enjoyed all that prog
ress and development of the more ad
vanced communities. Hut there is a
very good reason for this, namely:
that these other communities have
been free to develop themselves, while
Albania has been under the rule of
Turkey up to a few years ago. It is
really a tribute to the virility of the
Albanians that they have been able to
preserve their race and language
through five centuries of subjection to
Turkish rule. Through all this period
every method was employed to Tufk--afy
Albnnla, to do away with the lan
guage and the schools.
"It is not the only time the Alban
ians have shown their remarkable na
tional unity, for they are the only
nationality wlch successfully preserv
ed their racial identity against the
sweep of.the Romans, then the Vene
tains, then the Slavs, and then the
Turks. It has been a steady struggle
for independence and to preserve the
nationality from conquest and absorp
tion by some alien power. As such,
Albania furnishes the modern theo
rists on nationality a real example of
what a small country has gone through
to preserve its nationality.
For Independent, Albania.
Essad Pasha's emphatic declaration
for an independent Albania, was di
rectly opposed to the recent action of
Italy in proclaiming a protectorate
over Albania, and he was asked as to
the Albanian policy toward a protec
torate, "
t "We are opposed to all foreign pro
tectorates," he said, "and the Alban
ians will never consent to give up their
rights of directing their own affairs
in their own way. That has been the
caufe they have struggled for through
centuries, and they feel the sentiment
all the more now that the European
war has brought ambitious designs
from all quarters on Albania. What
Albania wants is the same rights of
free development that other small
states enjoy, and as a distinct nation
ality with its own race and language
it feels it is entitled to this same status
that is accorded to ail other small
states. This is a war for the protec
tion of small states, and not for the
absorption by protectorates."
While Essad Pasha, was here he
conferred with Premiar Venlzclos and
M. Politis, minister of foreign affairs,
and there is reason to believe Greece
is in full accord with the view ex
pressed by the Albanian ruljr for a
free and independent Albania, with
no foreign protectorate. .Serbia and
Rumania will doubtless be of the same
view, so that the solid Balkans will
bo arrayed against a foreign protec-
Catcher Iw McCarty, of the Giants, tne gamest of tTte pl.frwthat
Manager McGraw put into the world scries with the Chicago White Sox,
reached for Lelbold at the home plate in the second game. He fell heav
ily and hurt his arm and had to betaken out. This no doubt had much
to do with the poor showing of the Giants, because they recognize their
catcher as being one of the men. who does not lose his head iii important
situations. ' . , '.
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torate over Albania. Essad Pasha's
protest against the Italian protector
ate has been expressed in a formal
document laid before the ministry of
foreign affairs.
Austria Great Menace.
Asked what he had succeeded in
doing in establishing a stable regime
in Albania, Essad Pasha said:
"For 17 months prior to our enter
ing the war, I had been administering
the affairs of the country. This was at
the request of the powers, following
the unsuccessful experience of the
Prince of Weid. Considerable prog
ress was made, and the experience of
those 17 months showed Albania
be organized on a self-governing and
independent basis. But the coming
on of the war interrupted our plans.
Austria was our greatest menace, al
most encircling us on the north and
pressing toward the Adriatic. It was
at this time that Austria made her
overture for an Albanian alliance with
the central powers, and following their
rejection I declared war against Aus
tria and later against her allies.
"We made a stand for a time, but
Albania was in no condition to resist
the advance of such a military power
as Austria, with her men and equip-
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ment all along our frontier. They
have overflowed the country, down to
Valona where the Italians have land
ed, while our; Albanian troops have
been concentrated with the allied
forces on the Saloniki front. So that
norther! Albania is for the present
occupied by the nemy, and southern
Albania' is occupied for military pur
poses by the Italians. But all this
occupation will be regulated at the
final congress of the powers, when
we are sure Albania will be restored
as an independent nation."
Proud of Hi Troops. "
Essad Pasha is proud of what his
Albanian troops have been doing on
the Saloniki front. They are on one
of the most exposed sectors, near
Monastir, where they have seen some
of the hardest fighting against Bulgars
and Austrians. They are a hardy lot
of men, most of them mountaineers,
and their fiery rushes have won the
admiration of British, French and all
other allied forces. It was this same
class of men who used to be consid
ered by Abdul Humid as the very
pick of his fighting men when Al
bania was under Turkish rule. They
are used to the climate and the hard
life of the Balkans, and they fairly
thrive on their fighting while most
of the other allies are fighting again;
the conditions of the country as much
as they are against the enemy.
Based on his military experience,
and having watched the two sides in
contest during the last three years, Es
sad Pasha says there can bo only one
out come of the war the victory of
the entente allies. At the front he
has noted the steady decline in the ini
tiative and power of the central pow-ei-s,
and the steady increase of the en
tente forces. The entrance of the Uni
ted States in the war has been, he
says, one of the most stimulating in
fluences on the morale of the entire
entente army along the Saloniki front.
Declaring that he had seen in Sa
loniki moving pictures of the Ameri
cant troops, Essad Pasha said they
gave him and General Sarrail, the
commander-in-chief of the entente
forces, "a good idea of tho splendid
military qualities of the Americans
who are joining us."
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