The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-01-20
MONTENEGRO ASKS
PEACE OF AUSTRIA
Announcement Is Made by Hun
garian Premier.
KING HAS ACCEPTED TERMS
Count Tisza Tells Parliament "uncon.
ditional Laying Down Of Arms" Was
Requested and Ruler Agreed
to Quit Fighting.


Berlin, Jan. 1S.-Montenegro has un
conditionally surrendered to Austria
She will lay down her arms. She is
the first of the European belligerents
to sue for peace in the Is months OF
lighting. Terms will be discussed al
once. 1t is believed they will include
the cession of Mount Lovcen to Aus
trta and the northern Albanian town oil
Scutari to Montenegro
Premier Makes Announcement.
Announcement of the submission OF
the little mountain kingdom was made
by general headquarters of the Austro
Hungarian army and by Count TisZa
the Hungarian premier, before the
Hungarian parliament.
The official announcement says:
The king and government of Monte
negro on January Is asked for a cessa
ton OF hOstilities and the opening OF
peace negotiations. The Austro-H Hun
garian government answered that this
would not. be possible unless the Mon
tenegrin army SHOULD Internationally
lay down it's arms.
THE Montenegrin army on Sunday
accepted these terms"
Count Tisza, addressing the Hungar
ian parliament, said:
Montenegro has asked for peace
I'VE asked that beforehand Monte
negro Internationally lay down her
arms.
Just now news has arrived that the
unconditional laying down Of arms has
been accepted.
Peace negotiations will be entered
into Immediately"
First Peace Celebration.
The premiers announcement caused
tremendous sensation. A deep silence
followed his words and then parlia
ment broke into commotion. Shouts
of Joy made the ancient chamber ring
The news quickly spread to the
streets and the entire city Joined in
the first peace celebration.
One of First Nations in War.
tenegro's capitulation came on the
heels of dispatches quoting her king
and cabinet ministers to the effect thai
the nation would never surrender. II
was declared they would fight to the
last man; that Montenegro never had
been conquered and never would be
Montenegro was one of the first ma
tions to enter the war. She recalled
her ambassador at Vienna on August
s. 1914, only few days after the tina
break between Austria and Serbia
Her wild mountain people thrOn@ed tC
arms at the kings call. Among the
most warlike of European peoples
their mountain Businesses had never
been trodden by the foot of an enemy
The Montenegrins had fired the first
gun of the first Balkan war.
Never Captured Before.
When the Serbs had been complete
ny subjugated the Austro-Hungarians
diverted great forces for a final and
complete accounting with the Monte
negrins. The Austrians attacked or
two frontiers. the eastern and south
western. On the latter front land and
sea operations resulted In the capture
of Mount Lovcen, which never before
had been in the hands of an enemy Of
Montenegro. 1t was the backbone OF
their defense and thorn in the side
of the Austrians, as it dominated Cat
taro, their great naval base and key
to the Adriatic.
On January 10 the fall of Cetinje
capital of Montenegro, was announced
The Montenegrin army was said to be
falling back into Albania, across Its
southern frontier.
Montenegro was the smallest of the
allied countries. Her area was less
than 5000 square miles, but it com
prised a wild region of mountains and
forests which never had bowed knee tc
an enemy.
Her army at the outbreak of the
war numbered absut $4,000 out of q
population of about 225,O00.
The effect Of Monsenegro's action In
seeking separate peace on some Of
the other wavering nations is the sub
ject of general discussion here.