The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1910. THE BLACK MOUNTAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 30, 11 January 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1910. THE BLACK MOUNTAIN.

Of all the Balkan States Montenegro stands to-day the most remarkable, for with ancient valour undiinmed the Black Mountain State alone retains her liberty untouched. The fight her brave little army is putting up against the Hun invaders is tremendous, and Montenegro is yet unbeaten. In combination with a force of Serbians a le\V days ago the Monetnegrin army drove the enemy right out of the Black Mountains and Novi Bazar, the wedge of territory Austrian policy formerly inserted to separate the allied and kindred Slavs of Serbia and Montenegro. Between Caettaro and their own capital of Cettigne. they fought a three days’ battle, exposed not only to the enemies’ land attack, but to thousands of shells fired from the warships in the harbor, and finally they forced tiie Austrians to retreat with heavy losses in killed and wounded and leaving behind over a thousand prisoners. Entrenched on their wild peaks and ridges the enemy found no point at. which they could force an entry and after a terrific battle turned and Hed before the intrepid mountaineers. The history of Montenegro is one of incessant warfare, principally against the Turks, but almost as often against Austrian aggression. Gladstone once expressed the view that “the traditions of Montenegro exceed in glory those of Marathon and Thermopylae and all the war traditions of the world.” Bussia has frequently, in the past five hundred years, sought Montenegro’s aid against the Crescent' and seldom have the warriors of the Black Mountain failed in their ready response. It is said that every Montenegrin is a soldier trained from infancy to carry arms, and the great deeds of these sad days prove that the spirit of Montenegrin heroism is as unquenchable as ever.