Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-30

hilh 40 noy appear thC uouoiS suS
Powers are making over Dllcigno, as re-.
corded from dayto dsy in our dispatches,
/ the matter is really ri considerable i'm
portance; it is tindar box in which one
! little spark might easily be precipitated,
and all Turkey in Europe suffer from the
consequent condagration. AT the Con-
gress OF the European Powers in Berlin,
where the Eastern question" was at
tempted to be solved, it was decided
among other things that Montenegro
should have a seaport ON the Adriatic
Cattaro, the natural port of that little sec.
ton of the world, being in the hands OF
the Austrians, it would not do to demand
that to be given up, 30 it was ordered
that Turkey, which held Dulcigno for the
/ Albanians, deliver up the latter place.
Dulcigno belongs naturally to Albania, as
glance at the map will satisfy anyone ;
1t is village on the Adriasic Sea, with
no harbor worthy OF the name, and stu
ated on neck of land twenty miles wide,
]
the Lake of Scutari on the east To the
north Of this peninsula lies the southern
extremity of the shoe-string region OF
| Austrian Dalmatia, which occupies the
seacoast that belongs naturally to Monte
negro and the other provinces to the
| north Dulcigno is rather an inconveni-
eat seaport for Montenegro, and is
4 utterly indefensible in time of war
! but 1t is better than nothing,
in period of peace, hence the Montene-
| grins want 1t. The inhabitants of Dull
cigno are Albanians, every man Of whom
is desperate fighter and an animated
arsenal. They did not propose to be hand.
ed over to Montenegro without a contest,
and having raised the standard of revolt
against the Sultan-although secretly en-.
couraged by that fanatical and procrasti-
mating potentate-allowed the Turkish
garrison to withdraw, after leaving all
their munitions Of war and many of their
best officers behind them, ana took com
plete possession of the town. The Mon
:enegrins wanted to attack the place, but
owing 70 its isolated position it could not
easily have been pierced from inland, and
then again it was feared that once there
had broken out an inter provincial war, q
fire Of insurrection might be lighted
which it would take the armies of all
| Europe to extngulsh. The next PROPOSE.
ton was to make naval display before
Dulcigno, meanwhile plying the Sultan
with threatening collective notes; but the
Sultan, wholly influenced by his fanatica
Moslem advisers, has promised much and
done nothing-nothing but allow his
troops in Albania TO openly desert with
their officers and supplies, to the standard
of the insurrectiorists. The display
was to have been made on the
18th of August, but it is now
nearing the end OF the third
week of September, and the demonstra-
ton has not yet come off. As the Powers
have agreed to land no troops from the
vessels, 1t IS difficult to imagine what
good the naval display could do, even in
the event of its coming Oft. The Alba
mans eutrenched at Dulcigno are certain
ly masters Of the situation, up to date.
| But as the whole line OF provinces are
arming, and the notes Of approaching
! conf let are sounding from every hamlet
! in the Albanian and Montenegrin hills,
there is doubtless more trouble to grow
/ out of this, ERE long The Powers do not
seem to know what to do, each being jeal-
Gus Of the other; the Sultan Is penned in
| at Constantinople, and seems disposed to
| let events shape themselves, but the noun.
taineer peasantry are liable at any mo-
ment to precipitste q conflict that shall
waken the Powers from their day dream,
and bring on the Eastern question in all
It's vigorous entirety. Dulcigno is the
( keynote to the situation; it is the crisis In
the "sick mans" case.
1 chill AND PERU.-Our telegrsphiC dis.
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