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escape complications and take no part in the war. When the vanguard
of the Serb army arrived they believed that, as there were no Serbs
in the district, there was no danger. It is pathetic to note that
the luckless Albanians at first believed that the Serbs and
Montenegrins spoke truth when they said the war was in order to
liberate their brethren. That whole districts of solid Albanian
population would be seized, did not occur to them. They sat up all
night and made bread for the Serb army, and treated them as guests.
Later, they found their mistake. The Serbs treated them as
conquered. . . . People were arrested by the wayside and hanged
without trial. Three women were brought from villages to Kruja and
hanged there. In all fifty quite innocent people suffered. The two
Serb officers responsible for these atrocities were Dragoslav
Voinovitch (artillery) and Dragoljub Petrovitch (infantry). . . .
Left Kruja. Stopped at wattled shed for coffee. Han burnt by Serbs.
Folk gathered and told how Serbs had swooped on village, robbed and
arrested innocent people, taken them to Kruja and hanged them. All
said they had expected the Serbs to be allies and not foes.

At Tirana (18th) we visited Essad Pasha, and were struck with the
number of troops in the town. Essad explained they would leave by a
Turkish transport. He spoke with contempt of Ismail Kemal and the
provisional governmental Liter, at the house of Avdi bey, a number
of refugees from Dibra arrived and told of the sufferings in the
villages annexed by the Serbs. They asserted five hundred burnt-out
destitute persons had been prevented by the Serbs from receiving
help from the agent of the Macedonian Relief Committee. We arranged
to send maize.

At Durazzo folk were very nervous about Essad Pasha, who alone had
an armed force and was said to be in constant communication with the
Greek Bishop at Duiazzo, a notorious intriguer.

The Italian consul reported: "Perfect order prevails, but the delay
of the Powers must make for unsettlement." This, alas, was what
certain Powers intended. At the time the journey had the glory of a
plunge into a freed land rejoicing in liberty won after centuries of
anguish.

At Kavaia and Pekinj we heard of the massacre of prisoners by the
Serbs and the relief of the people that the invaders had gone, they
hoped, for ever.

At Elbasan admirable order was being kept by Akif Pasha. Here we
heard how the Serbs had imprisoned Albanian patr