The crisis in Turkey remains much as it has been
for two weeks, and so long as any poignant culmination is delayed we may hope that Turkey will add another to her extraordinarily long list of difficulties which have been overcome, nobody quite knows how. At the end of last week the Albanian question, which seemed to be on the point of solution, was temporarily but sharply aggravated by the movement of a large body of Albanian malcontents, who, disregarding the negotiations between their leaders and the Government, occupied Uskub and threatened to march on Salonika. This was, indeed, going a long way outside the ordinary zone of Albanian warfare. Fortunately counsels of moderation prevailed, and the malcon- tents were persuaded to accept free railway tickets for their journey home. There is now a fair chance that there will be no more acute trouble in Albania, the moderates and extremists having joined together in accepting the Turkish terms, which include the restitution of arms and a general amnesty.
