ted that the Albanians of the neighbouring
village of Borgo Erizzo were abetting the Slavs. It was necessary,
therefore, to castigate them. The 2500 inhabitants of Borgo Erizzo,
nearly all of them Albanians who speak their own language and
Serbo-Croat, while 5 per cent. also speak Italian, used to be divided in
their sympathies before the War--75 per cent. being adherents of the
Slavs in Zadar and 25 per cent. of the Autonomists. Now they have,
excepting 5 per cent., gone over to the Slavs, and as they have retained
some of the habits of their ancestors, they were not going to let the
hostile forces win an easy victory. A student marched in front of the
Italians, then about ten carabinieri, then a few ranks of soldiers, and
then the mob of Zadar. The Albanians were in two groups, twenty
sheltering behind walls to the right of the road and twenty to the left;
they were armed with stones, their women folk were bringing them relays
of these. The encounter ended in three carabinieri and seven or eight
soldiers being wounded. In order to avenge this defeat one Duka, who is
by birth an Albanian and is a teacher at the Italian "Liga" school,
which was built a few years ago at Borgo Erizzo, determined on the next
afternoon to attack the Teachers' Institute, which is situated 400 steps
from his own establishment, and which on the previous day had shown a
strong defence. He led the attack in person, firing his revolver. But
the casualties were light. The Teachers' Institute was, after this,
occupied by the military, and Admiral Millo paid a complimentary visit
to Duka at his school.

PRETTY DOINGS AT KRK

Proceeding up the Adriatic we come to the Quarnero Islands, of which the
most considerable is Krk (Veglia). The whole district had, at the last
census, 19,562 inhabitants whose ordinary language was Serbo-Croat, and
1544 who commonly spoke Italian. Of these latter the capital, likewise
called Krk, contained 1494, and only 644 who gave themselves out as
Slavs. The town, with its tortuous, rather wistful streets, was the
residence of the Venetian officials, and five or six of those old
families remain. The rest of the 1494 are nearly all Italianized Slavs,
who under Austria used to call themselves either Austrians of Italian
tongue or else Istrians. However, if they wish to be Italians now, there
is none to say them nay. They include five out of the twenty officials,
and these five gentlemen seem to have boldly said before the