Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-11

sadly cfippled-and instituted a systematic plan
Of military organization, on the model Of the
treaf1f fs9rrp esisss mai inns.--a4 sa
II The Ehult VII that Turkey feared 10 wiring
from Mentsns sSdp uhHathe privileges the sultan
had feArS Shihet Under the last treaty.
Daring the next fourteen years there were
many covert outbreaks along the frontier In
fact, such affairs have always been regular top
les of gossip in Montenegro up to the present
time.
1t came i'll 1875. when Servia declared war all
by herself against Turkey, and Montenegro threw
in the whole force and weight of her 10000 in
habitants with Servias 100000. There had
been some rumor of a Russian declaration of war
against the sultan. But Montenegro did not wait
for this That was not the Montenegrin way.
Fight for your brothers against any odds" that
is the Montenegro creed, and Prince Nicholas
acted upon it. The blood of Tchernagora ran as
holly as of old. But there was more than hot
blood and desperate courage to throw into the
balance for the principally this time. There was
the result of all the scientific preparations Mich
olas had been making for fourteen years
His increased standard of efficiency told right
at the start, when he was able to rally 10000 men
to his standard-the largest army Montenegro
had ever put in the field. Instead of waiting for
the Turks to attack, he pressed the war into the
enemy's country.
By means of a series of combats that he after.
ward loved TO style "Homeric" in his moments of
"reminiscences, the prince compelled Niksic to capt.
ulate an achievement which, in his peoples optp-
ion, overshadoWed all the others of the war. for
Niksic had stood for centuries threatening ont
post of the Mosem power at their very gates
Then, Unwearied by the months of STEADY fight.
ing, the prince countermarched his army to the
SOUTH pressed on to the coast and for the
first time In the centuries of MonteneRro,s ex
istence, the Montenegro eagles bathed in the
brine of the Adriatc. Antvari and Dulcieno
both fell, and Skutari-the bloody skutar" of
the Montenegro ballads-was hesiepad xhon
news of peace came.
Well might Nicholas sit back content In
succession Of campaigns that had met with nm
broken victory, he had pushed forward his from
tiers in every direction. He had reduced every
Turkish fortress within striking distance of his
frontiers, save Skutari.
So passed more than thirty years-eyentfnl
they would have been called in any other mart ot
Europe, but somewhat dreary for MONTENEGRO
So long ago as 1868, of his own free.wil and
without any pressure-indeed, In the face NJ tho
opposition of many of his advisers-he yoluntar.
lily granted the country constitution and abro
gated his despotic powers in form at least >for ma
matter of fact so long as Nicholas lives the
government of Montenegro will be benevoIart
despotism by and with the glad consent NJ the
people.
Since then he has granted other reforms and
has done everything possible to promote the in.
dividuaity and talent for selfgovernment Of his
subjects
1t is as fierce, ruthlessy fanatical crsaders
that like best to think of Nicholas and his neo.
pie; such crusaders as followed Richard tho
Lion'Heart to within sight of the walls of Jeru.
salem; of the same caliber as the Frankie NJ tha
Fourth Crusade, who, under Dandolo. Count RaId.
WIN and Montserrat stormed ConstantinopIa ana
set up on the shores of the Bosphorus a Latin
empire that might have checked the Moslem t,daI
wave had Europe backed them up.