Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-07-11

he has written several @oetic. dramas nclpding
The Empress of the BalkansP and "PfiHce Ar
banit" all dealing with Serb history, and de
clared to possess unusual merit
He was not quite nineteen when he was called
to take his uncles place. Two months later he
married Milena Voukoyich, daughter of one Of
the principal yoivodes, who had been brother
in-arms of his father, Mirko. The Czarina Mil
ena is still of the handsomest women In Eu
rope. She stood shoulder to shoulder with her
husband throughout all the trials and Universities
of his eventful reign. at times when he was
driven from pillar to post by the Moslem hordes
that were poured through the defiles OF the
Lovchen range in wave after wave, so that even
the brave Black Mountain men quaied under the
attack and sought safety the impossible noun
tain heights
They had peace of kind for year. and then
war broke out with redoubled violence. The in
surrection of the rayahs. Christian peasants of
the Herzegovina, aroused the sympatEies OF the
Montenegrins, and young Prince Nicholas found
his hands full trying to obey the injunctions of
the great powers to refrain from hostilities and
keep his fiery subjects in cheek.
For some months he held out against the
wishes of the nation, with somewhat dubious sue
cess He honestly did his best to remain neu-
trail; he even consented to allow the Turks to
send their conveys across Montenegrin territory.
A series of frontier incidents Frontier Incl
dent is the designation for any fracas along the
Montenegro border which results in fatalities
followed close upon one anothers hels. The
Turks grasped eagerly at the chance they had
been looking for. Omar Pasha viceroy of the
western provinces one of the bitterest foes of
Montenegro. threw huge army across the from
tier, undeterred by his previous defeats at the
hands of Mirko. 1t reasoned in CONSTANT
nople that young Nicholas had earned the dis
like OF his subjects by his peace policy, and that
now while there was turmoil in the Christian
camp, Turkey might find It easy to crack the nut
which had resisted MANY efforts
hundreds Of years
But things did not turn out exactly as Turkey
had anticipated. great part of the principally
was overrun, most of the villages were destroyed
and ruin stared every one in the face. Omar's
army had entered the country in three divisions,
aiming to comb it from side to side and making
their principal effort against the valley Of the
Zeta which might be called the highroad OF
Montenegro. the main artery of its life. But, led
by the giant fighter Mirko and their boy prince
in whom they trusted implicitly, once he had
sanctioned war-the Montenegrins took up I'M
finchingy the struggle of their fathers. The
Turks were assailed from every height, from the
sides of every pass.
True, the valley OF the Zeta fell into the in
vaders' hands, but on little else could they keep
their grip for long The war was fought with a
fierce. unrelenting fanatcism which is all but in
comprehensive to the western mind After sixty
battles, the Montenegrins were glad to meet their
foes halfway.
They conceded some unimportant points and
won breathing spell
Cholera followed in the wake OF famine and
despite the assistance OF France. which sent
shiploads of corn to arrest the ravages OF hun
ger many who had survived the bullet and steel
of the Turkish armies were carried on by the
scourge & disease. among them Mirko. "the
Sword"
The loss of his father was a great SIsw to