. The cradle of the war, the Near East and Pan-Germanism. With foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell . s the line of the celebrated ViaEgnatia for about one hundred and twenty miles,reaching the head of the Salonica-Monastir railwayat the last-named place. Of these one hundred andtwenty-five miles not more than the section fromMonastir to Struga — which is about forty-five miles— was passable for wheeled traffic, prior to the enemyoccupation of Northern Albania. The remainder ofthe road consisted of nothing better than an extremelybad and ill-kept path, and unless it has been improvedit could not be
. The cradle of the war, the Near East and Pan-Germanism. With foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell . s the line of the celebrated ViaEgnatia for about one hundred and twenty miles,reaching the head of the Salonica-Monastir railwayat the last-named place. Of these one hundred andtwenty-five miles not more than the section fromMonastir to Struga — which is about forty-five miles— was passable for wheeled traffic, prior to the enemyoccupation of Northern Albania. The remainder ofthe road consisted of nothing better than an extremelybad and ill-kept path, and unless it has been improvedit could not be utilised by a European force made upof all arms and accompanied by the big guns and bythe transport required in modern warfare. As a northern alternative to this route, there is aroad which connects Durazzo with Tirana and a pathleading from the latter place to Dibra. In the souththere is a road from Avlona to Berat and to Elbasan,but owing to its greater length and to the fact thatthe plains are practically impassable in bad weatherit possesses little claim to be considered as of equal. MILITARY HIGHWAYS OF THE BALKANS 209 importance to that which follows the Scumbi their occupation of Southern Albania, the Italians,as I have said elsewhere, have constructed severallengths of road in the area which they hold. The third and most southerly route through Albaniais by far the best road in that country. Throughoutits length it is passable for wheeled traffic, and it mustnow have been greatly improved by the Italians whoare in occupation of the greater part of it. Startingfrom Santi Quaranta, a port situated almost immedi-ately opposite to the northern end of the Island ofCorfu, it connects that place with Korcha and withMonastir. The first section of the road is part of thatoriginally built by the Turks to connect Janina withthe coast. A part of this route (roughly twenty miles)runs through territory which officially belongs toGreece. This is the case, because when
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