MONTENEGRO GIVES WAY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 May 1913, Page 4

MONTENEGRO GIVES WAY.

There are thousands of people throughout the world, and particularly ill the British Dominions, who wili sympathise with the little Montenegrin State in the disappointment she must feel at being denied the tin its of her glorious and well-earned victory. The persistence with which Montenegro has fought since the. beginning of the Balkan War; the tenacity with which she invested Skutari until the Turks were compelled to yield; the spirit of indomitable courage she has displayed in the face ot overwhelming odds has made her magnificent achievement the admiration of the world. That the exigencies of European diplomacy should now deny to her tli? prize of her conquest is a deplorable illustration of the doctrine that "might is right." It "would have been an act of suicid? for Montenegro to have gone to war with Austria. And so, bitter though the humiliation and disappointment must be, -the gallant lit vie State ha to be content with her mountain 1 as J .- nosscs, and look on while others plunder her spoil.