Arizona republican., 1916-01-18
With All Lines of Retreat Cut Off Except Into AL bania, Asks Austria-Hun- gary for Peace and Re- quest Is Granted
| FIRST NATION ITO WITHDRAW
Had Been Conceded for
 Days Situation Was Crit
 ical Because Conflict Un-
 equal Owing to Nations Inferior Fighting Force
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

Republican A. p. Leased WireJ Beset on the north, east and west by Austro- Hungarian armies. and with all lines of retreat cut off, except into Albania, where hostile tribeSmen must be faced Montenegro has asked Aus tria- Hungary for peace. and her re- quest has been granted The uncon- ditiOnal having down of arms Dy Mon tenegro was made the basis of the opening of peace negotiations, and Montenegro accepted these terms inn posed by the dual monarchy.
 1 This announcement was made to the Hungarian parliament by Premier | Tisza, and it met with an ovation on , the part of the members of the cham 1 Der. Thus comes the first withdrawal i of any belligerent from either of the alliances that have been fighting with each other since August, 1914. It had been conceded for days that the situation of Montenegro was a critical one. Although the army of the little kingdom fought valiantly against the Austro- -Hungarians, it was un- equal because of inferior forces. lack of guns and, it has been stated, a shortage in commissarat supplies, to the task of holding back the armies that had in conjunction with their al lies, succeeded in crushing Serbia. Already the Montenegrin capital and many of it's important towns had fallen into the hands of the Austro- Hungarians, and the invaders were l hnf ta tor nfS chief seaport -Antivari
 l Last accounts had the Montenegro government at Scutari The where abouts of King Nicholas is not known.
 The British and Russians in Meso- lpotamia and the Caucasus regions. re- spectively, are pressing the Turks hard. The army of King George, com
 ing northward from the Persian gulf
 to the relief of the British forces at
 Kut- El-Amara, has driven the Otto-
 mans to within six miles of the be- leagued town on the TigriS.
 The Russians, in their drive along
 the front of nearly 100 miles in the
 Caucasus have won additional points
 of vantage from the Turks, especially
 in the Arasa and Inid Valley regions. COnstantinOple admits this but says
 that south of the Arasa heavy casu-
 alties were inflicted on the Russians.
 On the other fronts little fighting of
 moment has taken place. The British
 and French guns in France and Bel
 Sium have been busy bombarding
 German trenches, while on the Rus
 sian front there has been fighting only
 at isolated points from the Riga re-
 zion to Bukowina.
 The Italians, through a cOncen- trated artillery fire on trenches near
 Oslavia taken from them recently by
 the Austro- -Hungarians, have forced
 out the invaders and again occupied ' their former positions.
 : According to the semi officia 9 Overseas News Agency of Berlin. en- D tente allied troops have landed al
 Phaleron, a port five miles southwest of Athens and once the port of the Greek capital.
 The Berlin newspapers, the new: = agency says, attribute this as part O f preparations looking to the over
 throw of King Constantine and tn tplacing of Eliutherios Nenizelos, tn former premier, who always has side' = with the entente powers, at the heat 7. of a Greek republic.