Evening journal., 1914-07-07
Is Anxious TO Get Back"
For Outside AggresSiOnS
in Montenegro
MAY MOVE SOON
AGAINST AUSTRIA
BY HENRY WOOD.
ited Press staff Correspondent.

man; warrior and dramdtlsts musician
and art connoisseur He has made good
,at all of them. too But two years ago
he discovered that for real sport there
is nothing to be compared with tantoliz
ing the big powers and turning topsy
turvy the digniiied diplomatic chancel
lories OF Europe.
King Nicholas first tried his hand at
this in the fall OF 1912. AT the head
Of his little army he one day suddenly
marched out of bis capital OF Gcttnic
and began swatting right and left at the
Turkish garisons on his southern from
tier. The European powers were even
more startled than the Turks and al
once they threw a it. The Balkons,
/ thoy told Nicholas, We're in that moment
/ in an even more inaammable condition
] than usual ANY little over act might
destroy the greatest modern diplomatic
masterpiece, the status quo.' Unheed
/ ing, King Nicholas swatted all the
harder Then the powers told him he
might just as well quit anyway. Even
Z il he conquered any territory. they
wouldn't let him keep IT, he was told
Greatly amused, Nicholas captured TWO
imore Turkish gerrisons. Then IN less
than q week he had forced the mobliza-
tion of all The Balkan armies, had fore
ed declaration of war from Turkey
and had precipitatcd the conflict which
wiped Turkey, after 500 years OF mis-
rule of the face of Europe.
Before this was finally accomplished,
King Nicholas once more waved The red
flag in the face OF the big powers. Sou
tari had once been the capital of Mon
tenegro. Centuries ago it had gone
down under the Turkish nundation.
Nicholas decided he must have it back.
The powers, for their own selfish ends,
, decided he mustn't. Nicholas began the
long and bloody siege of the city. Mich
olas took Scutari but the powers later
deprived him of t. Now, King Nicho-
las has Just received am even more tan
talizing project. This involves nothing
less than the abdication of his throne
the efTacng from the map OF Europe
of the independent political state of
Montenegro nnd its amalgamation with
the growing Slav empire of Seryia. II
means the end OF nation, but the
aggrandizement OF people, Nicholas
believes.
For century past, the separate po
litical existence of Montenegro hai
been one of the pet projects OF the pow
ers. The Montencgrns are of th
same ethical Slav origin as the Ser
vians. speak only the Servian language
and are kept apart only through th
Vaccinations of Austria. They havi
ioint ministry with Seryia. BY keep
ing up this separate political eNis
tence from Seryia, Austria has
hoped not only TO prevent the formation
of a big Slav empire on her southern
border which might not only one day
be "A national menace, but which woul,
also blocl, her own ambitions OF eX
tending Austrian territory through to q
southern seaport ON the Adriatic or the
Aegean.
However. Just what Austria doesu1
want is Just what Nicholas does want
and his latest scheme of abdicatloi
: seems TO offer the only way for its at
4 tainment. There are now in the Balkan
| neninsula 100000 Slavs. Since Ser
| via doubled its territory in the recen
| Balkan wars. she now has 5OOO0OO %
| these within her own boundaries. SOM
100000 more comprise the population
of Montenegro, while the reminder an
i'm the Slav provinces of Dalmatia, Crtia
Boznia and Herzegovina, which Austrr
has from time TO time annexed. tn
asniration of these l30O0O00 Siavs j
Il to oct all of these Sluy provinces an
states back into the common Nla
fatherland. which the Turks wiped ON
400 wears ago. United Servia and Mon
tenegro might accomplish this
Other considerations have ais
pooved King Nicholas to act at thi
time. Like the other Balkan States
Il nIoptenegro also added greatly to 1t
territory as result of the two re
cent Balkan wars. After centuries q
nisrule by the Turks these ne'
provinces are in a deDlorable condi
ton. Large sums are necessary 10
their immediate development, an
this King Nicholas has no way of Oh
tanning United. however so Servi
this would come I'm for all of tn
improvements which that country ha
under way for its new acquisiionl
Then. too. Nicholas is worried abou
| ths, matter Of succession. He is nc
| 1T all certain that Prince Danil
could keep up the integrity of tn
| / state as it should be.
iii In addition. Nicholas is not III
| tie desirous of getting back at th
! pcwers not only on his own beha
but on behalf of Servia and the Sla
| people generally. This he would mos
effectively do by amalgamating th
| | two kingdoms The powers unjustl
deprived Servia of a seaport on th
Adriatic. 10 which she was entitle
= after the Balkan wars. Montenegr
las two seaports there and if thes
passed into the hands of Servia
would be an awful blow to th
European chancellories. The tW
ports on the Adriatic combined wit
ports rights at Salonika on the Aegean
which Servia succeeded finally
Wrestling from the powers, woul
easily make the new Slav empire tl
dominating factor in the Balkan
The army of 100000 men which I'll
combined Montenegrin and Sc
Wan forces could muster might ais
make possible the eventual gettin
back from Austria OF the four Sla
provinces which she still holds