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Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1916, Page 5

MONTENEGRIN DEFEAT. .

'ALLEGED TO BE PREARRANGED. Rome, Jan. 19. The Montenegrin Consul announces that King Nicholas has issued a proclamation declaring that it was a question of surrender or ruin. The newspapers give numerous details with a view to proving that a secret agreement was existing in October, giving the Austrians Mount Lovtchen and Montenegro Scutari. The Idea, Zionale suggests that the Entente should have seized the principal military and political authorities in Montenegro, thus defeating the agreement. i . SEEKING SANCTUARY.

THE MONTEPGRIN ROYAL FAMILY ; „ />•! —■- r m ') Received Jan. 20, 9.50 p.m.- ' Paris, Jan. 20. Le 'Debits officially announces that the King of Montenegro and his family, and diplomatists, have left San Giovanni for Italy, ' ' j S? iFORCES AT SALONIKA. |f; - t s- Home, Jan. 19. The Salonika correspondent of the Gliornale d'ltalia says that information is reaching headquarters that hostile forces, numbering 320,000, are distributed between Monastir and the extreme right wing of the Allies. Of these '230,000 are massed for an attack on the left wing and centre, while 18,000 Turks, 30,000 Bulgars and 12,000 Germans will oppose the right wing. KAISER AT NISH. Amsterdam, Jan. 19. The Kaiser has arrived ,at Xisli arid reviewed the Austrian and Bulgarian troops and .conferred decorations. * PAT MY BACK. VJ -» 1 HYPOCRITES FRATERNISE. AND EXTOL ONE ANOTHER. Received Jan. 20, 9.50 p.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 19. ■A telegram from Nisli states that the Kaiser met King Ferdinand yesterday, and conveyed most cordial greetings. 1 He watched from tlio citadel a march past of the Bulgarian, Macedonian and German troops. The' Kaiser presented King Ferdinand 1 .with a field-marshal's baton, and King Ferdinand appointed the Kaiser colouel-in-chief of an infantry regimen' 1 . The Kaiser's retinue included Gener.als Faikenhayn and Mackensen, an admiral, and several other generals. King Ferdinand's retinne comprised two Princes and the Premier.