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for a more lenient judgment of Bulgaria. The sub- a friend 

 stance of these addresses will be found embodied in °/^"^' 

 his judicial volume entitled "The Cradle of the War; 

 the Near East and Pan-Germanism." In view of my 

 own Bulgarian experiences in 1914, I found myself 

 in full agreement with his views — a fact which 

 added to our pleasure during the few hours he was 

 able to spend at Stanford. 



Early in the morning Reinwein started out to 

 show me as much as possible of the Albanian people 

 and their city. This was then under the command of 

 a British officer and patrolled by British, French, and 

 Italian troops who had established a degree of order 

 subsequent to the expulsion of the Turks the previous 

 year. Matters had now assumed a normal look in 

 quarters not burned in connection with the Montene- 

 grin assault on the neighboring fortress, which crowns 

 a conical rocky hill. In storming its steep, forbidding 

 walls, I was told, King Nicola lost 9000 out of his 

 57,000 men. 



Each of the four main tribes of the north Albanians Some 

 was represented among the laborers in the streets. '^'^^"^°{ 

 In the country these groups — one of which is 

 Catholic, the others Mohammedan — hate one an- 

 other and are subject to sudden feuds, a feature of 

 primitive life everywhere. In the city, under foreign 

 rule or at work for Montenegrin employers, they 

 get along fairly well together. A vigorous, proud, 

 sensitive people much like the Montenegrins, they 

 appear on the average less independent and more 

 furtive. The various clans may be known apart by 

 the color and form of headgear, which — like the 

 Turks — they wear constantly, even on their tomb- 



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