Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-27
MONTENEG
LAY DOWN ARMS
UNC0ND|T|ONALLY
Cabinet Members Sign Dec
laratiOn Accepting Terms
of Surrender.
DISARMING is GOING ON
WITHOUT DIFFICULTY
! King Nicholas Personally Pleads
for Graceful Conditions for
Unhappy Country.
WRITES TO FRANCIS JOSEPH
| Details Leading Up to Capitulation
Given Out in SemiOfficial
Statement
WRITES TO FRANCIS JOSEPH
Details Leading Up to Capitulation
Given Out in Semioficial
Statement.

Especial Gable 20 The Times Dispatch
BERLIN. January os (wireless via
sayville).-.NI the members of the
Montenegrin Cabinet signed a dcclara.
tion accepting the terms OF uncondi-
tional surrender laid down by tho com.
mandcr Of the Austro- Hungarian army.
Not only this. hut King Nicholas
wrote Il personal letter to Emperor
Francis Joseph pleading for graceful
conditions" for his unhappy country"
These assertions are contained in a
semioHicial statement issued here to-
day in disproot of tho claim made in
entente quarters that Montenegro never
surrendered and is still fighting The
statements sets forth in detail, the
events leading up TO and following the
surrender. 1t says
The Montenegrns were still ce.e-
brating the Greek New Year when the
Austro- Hungar rian forces. advancing ON
Mont Lovcen. encountered among its
defenders 500 Italians, who were The
first 10 flee.
"Ou January II the Montenegrin au-
thoritics left Cetinje for Podgorica.
ON January 13 Bosnian detachment.
under command ot a young first lieu
:
coined tremendously by the 100-year-
| old Iliva Plamcnus. hero of many fights
against Turks In former years.
The young lieutenant ordered the
inhabitants to surrender their arms.
The same day there arrived at Cctinje
two Montenegrin officers with a white
flag Of truce bearing letter written
personally by the King. Both were
led into the Grand Hotel, where they
were guarded by Bosnian sentries.
CITIZENS FORMALLY
= SURRENDER TOWN
I'm the meantime, an Austro- Hum
garian brigade arrived. and the COM
mander received in the Grand Hotel n
delegation of citizens who formally sur
rendered the town The authorities
surrendered the archives and the pu'.lic
! buildings. From January IA Cetinje
| was under Austro-iiungarian martial
| law.
The letter of King Nicholas asked
the Emperor Francis Joseph for grace
! full conditions for his unhappy coun-
! try.
! ION the 10th the Austro- -Hungarians
occupied the district between Cetinje
! and Ryeka. The same day there ar
! rived three delegates from the Monte
| negrin government bringing II written
! declaration signed by all the minist srs
| that the terms OF unconditional sur
render OF the Montencgrin army were
| accepted. Therefore, on the nth hos
tili,ies ceased.
! 'fn several MOntencgrin towns, how
| ever after the MontcneErin troops had
| left the streets. riots occurred which
were stopped by the arrival of Austrn-
| hungarian troops. In Antivar mob
stormcd and looted the Italian consul
ate.
/ The worst scenes were Witnessed
| in PodEorica, where Alhanians fought
| in the streets against the Montencgr:Ts.
| The King was last seen AT Pod
; gorica, wherc he arrived on n white
, horse in the midst OF the silent popu'a- :
(, ton. one man stopped forward and
/, said:
Sir, we have no bread
| The King then left. almost un-
! noticed
| one feeling that is found strong
everywhere among the Montcncgrin
! population is that OF absolute hatred
| against Italy