The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1936, Page 10

\ N T A u p : O HouGH SULTAN MURAD HURLED THE FULL STRENGTW OF THE OTTOMAN ARMY AGAINST KROIA , SKANDERBEGY STRONG- HOLD IN THEE ALBANIAN HILLS WITHSTOOP EVERY ASSAULT .nm WHE TURKS AT LAST WERE OBLIGED TO ABANDON THE LONG SIGGE AND SULLENLY BEGAN THEIR RETREAT TOWARD ADRIANOPLE (1450) . ..... MEANWHILE SKANDERBEG CONTINU TO HARASS THE BESIEGERS, MAWING NIGHT RAIDS ON THE TURKISH CAMRS AND WEARING OUT HIS OPPONENTY BY CONSTANT ALARQMS. BUT SKANDERBEG SECRETLY FOLLOWED THE CRESTFALLEN TURKS, AND AS THE SULTAN'S WEARY ARMY WOUND SLOW- LY THROUGH THE ROCKY PASSES THE “MEN OF THE EAGLE “SWOOPED DOWN AND NEARLY CUT IT TO PIECES - WOoULD YoU= BELIEVE IT2 OHE worp BACHELOR. 'S DERIVED FROM THE LATIN " BACCALARIUS , MEANING "A COWHERD," IN OLP ROMAN DAYS CATTLE WERE TENDED BY YOUNG FREEDMEN WHO WERE SO POORLY PAIP THAT THEY COULD NOT AFFORD TO MARRY «woeens IN TIME THE TERM BACHELOR CAME T BE APPLIED TO UNMARRIED DESPAIRING OF CAPTURING KROIA MURAD OFFERED TO RECOGNIZE SKANDERBEG AS PRINCE OF ALBANIA IF THE LATTER WOULPD ACCERT ;he SULTAN AS HIS O a°. - R N R Y R L LIKE ANGRY BEES THE ALBANIANS STRUCK FROM EVERY SIDE AND SENT GREAT AVA LANCHES CRASHING DOWN UPON THE HEADS OF THEIR ENEMIES . D 1936 T(unnmoii MANSRGLD ams STUBBY LITTLE SHIP IS THE FAMOUS HALF-MOON, THE VESSEL IN WHICH HENRY HUDSON, AN ENGLISH SEA CAPTAIN SAILING FOR THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY IN QUEST OF A NORTHWEST PASSAGE, IN 1609 PUT INTO NEW YoRK BAY ANE DISCOVERED AND EXPLORED THE GREAT RIVER THAT NOW BEARS SKANDERBEG PROUDLY REJVECTEP THIS PROPOSAL,AND THE FIGHTING WENTON MORE FIERCELY THAN EVER. TERQ ESCAPED TO TURKEY WITH THE REMNANTS OF HIS BEATEN ARMY, WHILE THE ALBANIANS,REJOICING IN THEIR VICTORY HAILED THE GALLANT SKA BEG AS THE- SAVIOR. OF THEIR COUNTRY — e /. HIS NAME- ...