menting that the chief dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church
are Italians, gave it as his opinion that there was nothing to choose in
point of goodness between that particular Church and the Orthodox
Church. "And," said an old peasant who came to Triest with the story of
what had happened, "never in my life did I hear so fine a sermon and one
that did me so much good."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 72: The Italians had originally landed a "hygienic
mission" at Valona early in the European War, and this of
course developed into something else. That ingenuous
propagandist, Mr. H. E. Goad, tells us (in the _Fortnightly
Review_ of May 1922) that while Nature had made the innumerable
deep-water harbours on the eastern coast of the Adriatic
practically immune from Italy's attack, a landing or raid from
one of them at Ancona, Bari or Barletta would be a vital blow
at Italy, severing vital communications. He therefore justifies
Italy's landing at Valona in that it was a purely defensive
step, made to ensure that its harbour should not be used
against her. He may hold that the seizure of one town is better
than the seizure of none, but from the strategic and political
point of view it would seem that Mr. Goad is an injudicious
advocate.]

[Footnote 73: _Albaniens Zukunft._ Munich, 1916.]

[Footnote 74: _La Sera_, August 6, 1920.]

[Footnote 75: _Giornale delle Puglie_, September 6-7, 1920.]

[Footnote 76: The delegates of the League of Nations were told,
at the beginning of 1922, by the authorities in southern
Albania that it was iniquitous to believe that they would
employ this kind of punishment for political refugees. Did they
not advertise an amnesty to all those who returned within
forty-five days? And in what newspaper, they indignantly
asked--in what newspaper had they published the slightest
threat of arson?]

[Footnote 77: In the winter of 1921 this gentleman was expelled
from his country.]

[Footnote 78: _Albanesische Studien._ Jena, 1854.]

[Footnote 79: _Albanien und die Albanesen._]

[Footnote 80: But this is less rigorously upheld in the towns
if it is a question of their honour or of cash. When, to give
an example, Scutari was occupied by the Montenegrins at the
beginning of the Great War, a Catholic Albanian merchant came
to a Montenegrin lawyer and asked him to