MONTENEGRO OVERRUN BY THE ENEMY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 5

MONTENEGRO OVERRUN BY THE ENEMY

! ; < ANOTHER ALLEGED CAPITULATION , THE STAND AT MOUNT TARABOSCH Bar Telegraph—Preaa ABaoolatlon—Copyright ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) \ _ Athens, January 27. | The correspondent of the Italian journal "Messagero" states that the whole of Montenegro has been occupied by the enemy. The Montenegrins' resistance at Mount Tarabosch helped the escape of tho Serbo-Montenegrin forces, which concentrated in the Scutari region. • Sixty thousand Montenegrins fled to Albania. > ' AUSTRIANS ALLEGE THAT CAPITULATION HAS BEEN . SIGNED. - : Amsterdam, January 27. An Austrian communique claims that a, Montenegrin plenipotentiary signed a capitulation on Tuesday.' . GERMAN REPORT OF THE ALLEGED SURRENDER. London, January 27. A German wireless service publishes detaik of the alleged Montenegrin surrender. It asserts that it was to unconditionally. King Nicholas wroto to the Emperor Francis Joseph asking for generous conditions for his unhappy country. When the troops entered Ccttinje, a civic delegation formally surrendered the city, and also the archives and public buildings. The wireless report admits .that the populace is rioting, and that the Austrian troops are suppressing the riots, also that martial law is in foroe in Cettinje. , _ , ! CONFLICTING REPORTS FROM MONTENEGRO. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) i CRec. January 28, 5.5 p.m.) . London, January 27, The "Times" correspondent at Rome states that the news about Montenegro is contradictory, but "he says, "the country is clearly at the mercy of the Austrians. The majority of the Montenegrins have perforce given up their arms. The Austrians have occupied San Giovanni, and another mixed column of Bulgarians and Albanians is coming down the Matja Valley. "Numerous Serbs and Croats, pretending to be seeking refuge in Montenegro from Herzegovina, have been preparing in Montenegro for the ' Austrians."- ' , ! FERDINAND BOASTS OF HIS PRIME MINISTER'S "SLIMNESS."' Amsterdam, January 27. The Sofia correspondent of tho "Neue Freie Presse" (Vienna) states that King Ferdinand, at tho Nisli banquet, boasted of tho diplomacy/of M. Radoslavoff (tho Bulgarian Premier) in hoodwinking the Allies before Bulgaria joined in the fray.. THE SITUATION AT KUT-EL-AMARA , TURKS RETIRE FURTHER BACK, London, January 27. General Townshend reports that the Turks have evacuated the trenches on the land side of the defences of Ku t-el-Amara, and have retired about a mile from the British entrenchments.