The special correspondent of the Times at Prizrend says that
the Albanian notables met on Monday to discuss what they should do in view of the large concentration of Turkish troops. He thinks, on the whole, that the notables are conscious of their lack of organisation, and will wait for more favourable times. Certainly their recent answers to the Turkish Government have not been very defiant. The corre- spondent in another message describing the fighting says that the Albanians have developed to a marked degree the hillsman's terror of being taken in the rear or commanded from a superior height. They therefore keep clear of the woods, which ought to be their best allies, and artlessly select positions on naked hilltops. "As may be easily imagined, the Turkish battery commander asks for nothing better." On the other hand, the correspondent finds that the younger Turkish officers have considerable capacity. We hope that we may take these judgments, as well as the scantiness of news from Albania., as evideace that the revolt is weakening, and that the Young Turks are overcoming yet another of the great difficulties in the way of maintaining a Constitution:// Ottoman Empire.
