The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-12

LONDON, Jan. 12.-Mount Loveen,
:" the Gibraltar of the Adriatic,'' dom
mating the Austrian port of Cattaro.
has been taken by the Austrians. This
news is contained in an official an
nouncement made at Vienna, which
reads as follows.
ION the Montenegro front Mount
Lovcen has been captured.
we occupy the Karst mountains
and the Berane heights. We captured
26 cannon, 4 mortars and large quaint
ties of ammunition and war materials.
The latest Montenegrin official state
ment concerning the situation at Cat
taro received here saws:
For the fast four days the Aus
TRANS have been delivering furious at
tacks on our Mount Lovcen front
Supported by a hurricane of uninter-
rupted fire from warships and the
forts of Cattaro, the enemy advanced
as far as our first line of defences
Our troops repulsed him time after
time, infiicting enormous losses, but at
night, as the result Of a desperate
struggle. in which the enemy resorted
to asphyxiating gases, the Austrians
were enabled to occupy our positions
The morale of our troops is excel
lent notwithstanding privations of all
sorts. The fighting continues
! The capture Of the mountain besides
being a serious blow to the Montene-
grins, who put up stubborn defence
and finally had to yield to the heavy
Austrian mountain artillery, represents
also severe setback for Italy
| A strong Austrian squadron has been
bottled up in the Bocche di Cattaro
as the winding channels leading from
the town to the sea are called, since
April of last year. Individual units OF
this fleet have been able to slip out OF
the bay and to return, pursuit by the
allied Mediterranean fleets being pre-
vented by the narrowness of the chan
nels and the Notifications of Vermatz
ON the coast. The chief aim of the
Montenegrins was to seize the town OF
Cattaro and the heights commanding
the Bocche > and thus compel the sur
render of the fleet
The main protection for the Austrian
warships consisted in the 1000 feet
high cliffs which border the Bocche d
Cattaro opposite Mount Loycen. These
cliffs made it impossible fer the Mont
enegriu batteries on Lovcen to lombard
height of this natural wall preventing
them from seeing the objective of thei1
shells.
Mount Lovcen is 5,653 feet high. I
lies ten miles northwest Of the Monte
negrin capital, Cattinie.
The fall of Loveen Is the most i'm
/ portant success thus far achieved il
the Austrian invasion of Montenegro
the sweep of which extends from the
river Tara in the west to the Ipek re
gion in the east. 1t is a success which
it is frankly admitted here, fore
shadows far reaching consequences.
/ The entire Albanian campaign vii
be affected by the fall of Loveen
Lord Robert Cecil, parliamentary unde
secretary for foreign affairs, told tn
lhouse of commons frankly that all wa
mot well in northern Albania. Albanian
tribes have been greatly influenced b.
Teutonic propaganda and their cooper
lation with the invaders is imminent
The Austrian success at Lovcen is ex
peeted to go a long way toward dc
termining such cooperation.
While for the Austrians the takin
of Mount Lovcen means merely tn
safety of their seaport, this first blo1
struck by the invaders on the Adriati
coast is feared here to be the forerur
! ner of a series of other moves cor
Itemplated by the Austrians and Blu
Egarians Anxiety regarding the inv;