A telegram in Monday's Times announced that nearly all the
Nalissori have returned home. A characteristic administra- tive muddle seemed likely at one time to be the cause of fresh difficulties. It will be remembered that one of the conditions of peace was that each refugee was to be given a sum of £TI by the Turkish Government. The officials, however, began by distributing £T1 to each family. Complaints were made, and it was eventually announced that the payment was only "provisional" and that the rest of the money would be
'distributed later. It is interesting to mention that the total losses incurred by Montenegro in consequence of the Albanian revolt are officially estimated at £208,000—a sum nearly twice that at which the annual budget is balanced. Of this amount 226,000 is put down to military charges and 228,000 to the direct cost of supporting the refugees. The rest represents the official estimate of the indirect losses to trade and industry.
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