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Famine in Shkoder. In the picture: A lunch for the poor<br />
held by the international forces, 1915<br />
1916: In January the Montenegrin troops left. The city was<br />
then administered by the Austro-Hungarians (for two years).<br />
Important public projects started in the city, such as the covering up<br />
of all opened rain-water and sewer canals and also the building of the<br />
modem wharf of <strong>Shkodra</strong> port.<br />
It is the first time that the Albanian language is used as the<br />
official language in all administration offices. The medical ambulant<br />
and hospital service and the general hygienic control were improved<br />
to perfection. Attention was paid to the building of the infrastructure,<br />
internationalization of Buna port (joining it to the land roads leading<br />
to Lezha, Podgorica, Ulqini), the railway unification of all the most<br />
important urban centres, administered by them, was achieved.<br />
The building of the Shengjin-Shkoder and Prizren-Ferizaj<br />
railways according to a project pending since 1872 was decreed.<br />
Quite different from our today's neglecting attitude, the Austro-<br />
Hungarian Empire esteemed so much this project that in order to<br />
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