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The landing-stage was slippery and slimy with rain, soot, and petrol drippings from the motor-cars shipped to and fro. Customs-house officers eyed them with tired suspicion; porters took their money and hastened away with the curtest of acknowledgments; an engine panted sullenly as it waited for never-ending mail-bags to be hauled up from the bowels of the packets and dumped into the mail-van.
Such is the official account; but, seeing that the Porte knows how to turn to account the fanaticism and turbulence of the Albanians , it may be that their resistance all along was but a device of that resourceful Government to thwart the will of Europe. The same threat as to the seizure of the Turkish customs-house at Smyrna sufficed to help on the solution of the Greek Question.
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