ly be astonished that he, or the people
on behalf of whom he spoke, should have thought the enemy-drawn frontier
of 1913 as worthy of the slightest consideration. We are all, I think,
unanimous, said Mr. Fisher in effect, we are unanimous in our esteem for
the Yugoslavs and could do nothing which that nation would find hard to
bear. But after stating that some rectifications had been made in favour
of Yugoslavia he should have referred to the village of Lin on Lake
Ochrida whose transference to the Albanians will probably give rise to a
great deal of trouble, since it is the most important centre for the
fishing industry. A few of the best Belgrade papers, careless of the
more than Governmental authority which they enjoyed in the eyes of Mr.
Fisher, went so far as to allege that Lin's change of sovereignty was
due to the formation on Lake Ochrida of a British fishing company.... We
have said that the frontier rectifications were inadequate; but under
the circumstances they were the best that could be obtained. They were
most bitterly contested by the Italians, who demanded, as we have said
above, that Yugoslavia should be given the 1913 frontier. France did
nothing to help the Yugoslavs in this hour of need, and had it not been
for the absolutely determined support of Great Britain the pernicious
frontier of 1913 would have been adopted intact.

Coming to the Mirdite revolt, Mr. Fisher's description is hardly what
you would call felicitous. Mark Djoni and the other members of the
Mirdite Government were compelled last July to seek refuge at Prizren in
Yugoslavia, and since then they have conducted their affairs from that
place. These circumstances, in Mr. Fisher's opinion, go to prove the
existence of a Yugoslav plot whose aim it is to separate northern
Albania from the Tirana Government. Again Mr. Fisher points an accusing
finger at the Yugoslav officers who, in August, were helping the
Mirditi; but is it not more natural that these officers should give
their services to the Christian tribes for whom, as Mr. Bo[vs]kovi['c],
the chief Yugoslav delegate, said, the Southern Slavs do not conceal
their sympathy[102] nor the hope that they will gain the necessary
autonomy--is not this more natural and more deserving of Mr. Fisher's
approbation than the fact (of which he says no word) that the Moslem
Government of Tirana has had the active assistance of Italian officers,
such, for example, as Captain Guisardi, who, in the sect