d by the Albanian
natives of that region towards their rulers. It goes without saying that
these sentiments are perfectly well known to those Albanians who live
outside the Yugoslav frontier.

Well, at Suva Rieka, near Prizren, for example, I found that all the
Muhammedan inhabitants of Serbian origin are aware that they used to
celebrate the Serbian national custom of "Slava," still keep up the
Serbian Christmas Eve customs and often practise the old Christian nine
days' wailing for the dead. Some of us may think that this new
pro-Serbian tendency is rather on account of utilitarian reasons; the
great thing is that it should exist. With rare exceptions, the people of
Suva Rieka used to live by plunder; now they are sending their children
to the Serbian school, at any rate the boys, and for the study of
religion the authorities have made arrangements with a local Moslem. It
is to be regretted that Miss Edith Durham, whose writings were so
pleasant in the days before she became a more uncompromising
pro-Albanian than most of the Albanian leaders, says that if these
children go to Serbian schools it merely shows to what lengths of
coercion the Serbs will resort. In 1912-1913 Serbian and Montenegrin
officers seem to have told her that severe measures would be employed
against any recalcitrant Albanian parent who might decline to send his
son to school. Assuming that these officers were not young subalterns,
that they were quite sober and that they were not rudely "pulling Miss
Durham's leg," it may be urged that even if the children be driven to
school at the point of the bayonet, such conduct would compare
favourably with that of the Albanians towards the Serbs in Turkish
times. Talking of coercion, I suppose that the progress in agricultural
methods which one sees around Prizren is only further evidence of
Serbian tyranny. The _gendarmerie_ on the country roads is composed
largely of Muhammedan Albanians--doubtless the Serbs have coerced them
by some horrible threats. And if Miss Durham were to hear that Ramadan
(_ne_ Stojan) Stefanovi['c] of the village of Musotisti had decided to
return to the Orthodox faith to which his brothers George and Ilja had
been more faithful than himself--such variegated families are not
uncommon--I believe, though I may be doing her an injustice, that her
first impulse would be to write to the papers in drastic denunciation of
the Serbian authorities. They have, like most of us, sufficient t