Valdez daily prospector., 1914-07-14
'GRv|A MAY GET
 ALL MONTENEGRO
King Nicholas May Abdicate In Fa-
 Thus Uniting Two Countries.

CETTINGE, Montenegro, July 14.- King Nicholas is contemplating the 'abdication of his throne and the con solidation of Montenegro and Servia into one country. He plans to, ab7 dicate in favor of Crown Prince Alex ander of Servia, who is now ruler of that country as regent, his father having retired because of ill health.
 For a century past the separate political existence of Montenegro has been one of the pet projects of the powers. The Montenegrins are of the same ethnical Slav origin as the Ser vians. speak only the Servian lam guage, and are kept apart only through the machinations of Ausfr1a. They have joint ministry with Servia. By keeping up this separate political existence from Servia, Austria has hoped not only to prevent the for nation of big Slav empire on her southern border, which might not only one day be a national menace, but which would also block her ovn ambitions of extending Austrian ter ritory through to southern seaport on the Adriatic or the Agean.
 However, just what Austria doesn't want is just what Nicholas does want and his latest scheme of abdication seems to offer the only way for its attainment. There are now in the Balkan peninsula 13,0O0,OOO Slavs. Since Servia doubled it's territory in the recent Balkan wars, she now has 5,000,000 of these within her own boundaries. Some 100000 more com prise the population of Montenegro, while the remainder are in the Slav provinces of Dalmatia, Crtia, Boznia and Herzegovina, which Austria has from time to time annexed. The as piration of these 13,000,O00 Slavs is to get all of these Slav provinces and states back into the common Slav fatherland which the Turks wiped out 800 years ago. United Servia and Montenegro might accomplish this.
 Other considerations have also moved King Nicholas to act at this time Like the other Balkan states, Montenegro also added greatly to its territory as result of the two re- cent Balkan wars. After centuries of misrule by the Turks these new prov inces are in deplorable condition. Large sums are necessary for their immediate development, and this King Nicholas has no way of obtaining. United, however, to Servia this would come in for all of the improvements which that country has under way for it's new acquisitions. Then. too. Nicholas is worried about the mat ter of succession. He is not st all certain that Prince Danilo could keep up he integrity of the state as it should be.
 In addition, Nicholas is not a little desirous of getting back" at the powers, rot nay on his own beAan. but on behalf Of Servis and the Slxv people generally. This he would most effectively do by amalgamating the two kingdoms. The powers unjustly deprived SeFvia Of seaport on the Adriatic, to which she was entitled after the Balkan wars. Montenegro has two seaDorts there and if these passed into the hands of Servia 1t would be &n awful blow to the Eu- ropean chancellories. The two ports on the Adriatic com bined with port rights at Salonika on the Agean, which Servia succeeded finally in wrestling from the powers. would cas- fly make the new Slav empire the dominating factor in the Balkans. The army of 500,000 men which the combined Montenegrin and Servian forces could muster might also make possible the eventual getting back from Austria Of the four Sl&v prov irices which she still holds.