Photo by Theron J. Damon 

 ALBANIAN CHRISTIANS OF SCUTARI LEAVING CHURCH 



possessions — were taken from them, and 

 in the shape of the outrageously cruel 

 and uncalled-for bastinado they were 

 likewise "given their lesson." 



Another division of the Turkish forces 

 marched southward and penetrated the 

 peaceable valleys of central Albania. 



SCHOOLS WLRL CLOSLD WITH THE BASTI- 

 NADO AND LASH 



At Elbassan, immediately on the grant- 

 ing of the constitution, the intellectual 

 leaders of Young Albania had started a 

 normal school. They were trying to pre- 

 pare Albanians to become teachers of 

 the hordes of their ignorant countrymen 

 throughout the land. They were using 

 the Albanian language and, according to 



the vote of an Albanian congress of the 

 year before, were writing this language — 

 a European one — in Latin letters. Under 

 Abdul Hamid every attempt at writing 

 or printing or giving instruction in the 

 Albanian language had been stifled so 

 far as possible. Only in the Austrian 

 and Italian missionary schools of north- 

 ern Albania, carrying out their Austrian 

 and Italian political propagandas and ex- 

 empt from the surveillance of the Sultan, 

 had it been possible for the Albanian to 

 study in his own tongue. 



As for an alphabet, the Austrian poli- 

 ticians who are back of all the missionary 

 work of the Austrian priests and who 

 never cease to advance their Austrian 

 schemes, looked askance at a future 



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