HOW THE MONTENEGRINS FIGHT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 12

HOW THE MONTENEGRINS FIGHT

A GERMAN TRIBUTE. We hefr very little of the fighting at the Montenegrin front; the more interesting is a description given of it by <;he special correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" with the Austrian troops. Ho says:— Tho Montenegrins themselves do not ■understand so much about artillery as about other arms, in the employment of which they are past masters. Their speciality i§ not the complicated modern war, but the partisan warfare in the mountains, the .real' Indian war. One hears them shouting something to one another on the bare, black mountains; theh they glide, down into the valley in groups of two or three, jump in their soft felt shoes from stone to stone, conceal themselves in tho boles which are hidden by the evergreen bushes, and suddenly they all collcct at one spot in tho rear or at the flauk of our patrols. Woe to these patrols if they allow themselves to bo surprised! The Montenegrins give no quarter to anybody, not even to tho wounded. On the other hand, it is next to impossible to capture Montenegrin soldiers. Wherever a warrior goes or stands there also is his wife, and when he falls she jumps to his side and drags him ;away. No dead or woiiuded are found after a battle.