New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-12

ward, instead Of making them noio INC ''''
with all their might
"No. not for the sake o. Serbia dio
nropose a Balkan campaign, but for the SAKE
~ ths Allies general scheme, which We are
accused Of leaving out OF our accounts. Du'
France and England did not see eye 70 es.
with US then; and later, when they adoP'eu
our original plan, We did not see eye 70 eye
NTH them In the matter, because We kne" IL
was too late. When Bulgaria joined the
Teutons we knew that Serbia, attacked IRON
two side, and threatened from third, couid
No longer be saved, because there was no timo
Tor adeouste preparation. Clemenceau was
the only statesman in France or England VINO
Endorsed the views Of Italy. | need not point
ont who was the wiser, Paris and LONDON or
Rome. 49,
"Whv did We not at least save poor littie
Montenegro. Poor little Montenegro was
sold 70 the Teutons. This is not fancy, out
n fact I can personally vouch for. The very
Minister who, the other day, issued such
aambovant declaration Of Montenegrin loyalty
TO the Allies said to me eleven years ago
when was in Montenegro on government ,''
mission: What we need Is money. IL ''a'y
won't give US money, We know well enough
where to 90 for it,
"Fven IL We had not known Montenegro 70
bs sold to Austria, what could We have done
for her at the late hour when the enemy
surrounded her from all sidesY Our stsH
calculated that our aid, in order to be OF any
us. nj all would have to amount TO soo,ooo
men and nearly half the artillery pieces now
protecting our Alpine positions. We could
hardly spare so many troops and guns bu'
had We sent them across the Adrstic what
would have happened7 The men would have
been slaughtered or driven into the sea be-
fore they could set UP their guns.
"One can't very we'll picture the conditions
in Montenegro if one hasn't seen them. There
are, one may say, no roads, no bridges
scarcely any houses. Cettinje IS village OF
1000 souls At the coronation festivities, IN
1910, at which was present, there were apou'
fifteen hundred foreign visitors In the capital
Where we're they put up? All but few had
Ia lodge in tents. Where would Montenegro
have housed our army Of 100000? Tents are
not sufficient protection in the mountains
during the raw winter season. In the Alps
we have built village after village of stone
and wood houses, well heated with stoves and
we'll supplied with adequate food, for our de-
Tenders, OF whom not one is now reduced TO
frail canvas shelter. But villages do not rise
bv magic out of the rock, and nothing short OF
magic could have quickly enough provided
even the toughest sort of abode for our army
in Montenegro.
"Then the guns. In 1905 Italy presented
Montenegro with lot of her old discarded
guns, of all calibre, to be set up on the noun
tsins, where they could still be useful enough
for purposes Of defence. | saw the roads
and bridges after the guns had passed. The
roads were bitches, and not one bridge was
there left that had not crumbled under the
weight of the artillery pieces. To THINK oil
tran sporting modern cannon IN Mon
tenegro without first building ways for them
to pass over would be the height OF folly
And solid roads and bridges can no more be
built over ngnt than villages. II Italy nad
sent 100000 men, with nothing but portable
tents for shelter. to face the big Skodas with
rifles and bayonets for sole defence, she