THE MONTENEGRIN PLOT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9168, 17 August 1908, Page 5

THE MONTENEGRIN PLOT.

CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.

A DENIAL. BELGRADE, August 14. The Servian Government denies that either the Government or the Court has had any relations with M. Nasties. The whole alleged plot is declared to be absurd.

M. Nasties, a Bosnian journalist, lately published a book accusing the Servian Crown Prince of complicity in the recent plot against the Prince of Montenegro, and asserting that King Peter had full knowledge of his son's action. M. Nastice stated that bombs intended for the assassination of Prince Nicholas were manufactured m the Servian State arsenal.

Writing in the London "Daily Mail" on June Bth, Mr Herbert Vivian said:—"The sentiments of the Montenegrin Royal Family are not actuated by any excess of cordiality towards the actual rulers of Servia, in spite of the relationship-in-law which exists between Prince Nicholas and Peter Karageorgevitch. This is not to be wondered at in view of recent revelations, which have been blurted out during the State trial at Cetinje. M. Tomanovitch, the Prime Minister, told me the whole plot had originated in Servia, where a small number of Montenegrin students were provided with bombs and bribed to use them against the Royal Familv. When the Montenegrin Government first heard that the plot was being prepared in Servia, it despatched a note to M. Pashitch, the Servian Premier, protesting against the inaction of the Belgrade police, but no answer was returned. The idea in the minds of the Servian regicides evidently was that a policy which had succeeded at home might be equally useful abroad. In old days Servia and Montenegro were both parts of "a Slav empire, and a reunion of the two countries might now be regarded as a patriotic object. If the royal house "of Montenegro were suddenly and violently removed, still more if anarchical ideas could be spread over the Principality, who knows whether jjthe Montenegrins might not acclaim a Servian as a liberator? To thd mind of a Servian regicide this seemed quite logical and proper, but th j slightest knowlegde of the Montenegrin temperament would have revealed the immense strength of the traditional loyality with which Montenegrins regard their paternal ruler."