The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
MONTENEGR|NSO OF ALABAMA WANT ID
 JOIN WITH SERBIA
Interesting Memorandum Is Drawn Up Showing Mum Der of Them in This
 State

Alabama seems to have more organ ized bodies of Montenegrins than any other state in the union and they be- lieve that their country should unite with Serbia for the preservation of its rights in future.
 The Age-Herald Is in receipt of an interesting memorandum from lagos Badnar of West Blocton, which is signed by the Montenegrin committee for na- tional union of New York, and by com- mittees which attach their signatures.
 The memorandum, which sets out their aims, is as follows:
 '@The undersigned, representatives of all the Montenegrin organizations for national unit of North America, in ac- cordance with resolutions passed by the local organizations and published in the Jugo-Slav newspapers of America, submit and sign the following general memorandum
 Montenegro has always been the cradle of Siberian liberty, and the flag unfurled for liberation and unification has never ceased to fly since the down. fall of our empire at Kossovo until the Hateful day of December 31, 1915, when, against the will of the army and of the Parliament, the supreme commander of the Montenegrin army sued the Aus trian Emperor for peace. This he did both by telegraph and by direct appli- cation to the Austrian Emperor. He thereby committed a crime against Serbdom and it's allies, 8 betrayal un- precedented in the history of>the Jugo- Slavs.
 ''The thraldom of our brethren brought about by the equalization, pre- arranged and executed by the highest authority, imposes upon us free Monte- negrins the duty of taking an active m art in nIrr r1d in, fh1t nf our brethren in captivity, in the solu- tion of the national question and the settlement of the future political state of our fatherland.
 "With view of realizing our nation al aspirations the cabinet of Mr An drija Radovitch, and afterwards that of MT Milo Matanovitch, submitted to the crown during the years of 1916 and 1917, well grounded proposals for the necessary union of Montenegro with Serbia and the rest of the Jugo-Slav provinces, laying stress on the fact that our narrower fatherland would be in the very near future condemned to po- 1itical, moral and economic extinction. as all of us do know and foresee. But, to our regret, the crown rejected both of these important and patriotic pro- posals, and continued to De partisan of a separate Montenegro, aiming exclu- sively at the preservation of the dynasty.
 "Such an attitude on the part of the crown, after carrynig out the capitula- tion, Is an attack on our national rights, our national feeling and our national conscience
 Taking our stand upon the facts above mentioned, and inspiring our selves from the principle proclaimed by our powerful allies of the liberty and self-determination of the nations, we demand most energetically the uncon- ditional union of Montenegro with Ser bia and the other Serbian, Create and Slovene provinces into one indivisible, democratic state, and are ready to make with, our heroic brothers in race and our allies every sacrifice for the real fzation of this idea.
 We recognize as the rightful rep resentatives of the aspirations and de- sires of the Serb people from Monte negro the Montenegrin committee for the national union of Paris whose pro- gramme we accept as our own the more so as that committee signed the declaration of Corfu, which we enthus- iastically hail as the outward express sion of the supreme aspirations of all Serbs, Creates and Sloyenes.
 We consider that the official repre- eentatives of Serbia to the United States of America and the other allied nations are our representatives, and recognize them exclusively as such because they are at the same tims the representa- tives of all the Jugo- -Slavs.
 We maintain that the government at Neuilly, near Paris, is personal government of the crown established against the national aspirations to de- 1end personal and dynastic interests, and we can never recognize it's acts as those of the government of Montenegro
 Consequently, we protest in advance most energetically against all eventual loans which the said government may make, or, is making, because by all principles of government and interna- tional law people can never be held responsible for such loans which have not been approved according to our constitution by the representatives of the people.
 Tt is our firm resolve that all the allied cabinets shall receive communica- tion of this memorandum, and we de- sire that they accept it as the express sion of the collective will of our whole | people"
 The Alabama signatures to this doc ument are as follows:
 Anchorage. June 22, 1918, Milo M Gjonowic, chairman; members, Bozo M. Gjurovic. Batric Carrie. Milan Seratlic.
 Seward, June 10, 1918. Mico T. Tonic. l chairman; members, Milutin vulic, Luka Kentera, Stevan Puletic
 Juneau, June 22, 1918, Marko R. Savic, | chairman; members, Vuko Lumovic, La gar Bozovio, Marko Vukmanovic; Marko | IT. Savic, secretry
 Blocton, August II, 1918, lagos Badn- | Jar, chairman; Jovan Kovacevic secre- | tary; members, Rade Mitrovic Dusan | Bamsal, Jovan Samsal