The Archive · 1880

Montenegro and Albania

Fro the telegram which we published in our Inst issue, we learn that the question of the cession of territory to Montenegro on the coast of the Adriatic was still unsettled, but that a peaceful solution of the difficulty was expected. But the news" which has subsequently arrived leads us to think that the Albanians, who hold Dulcigno, have proved deaf alike to the orders of the Porte and the threats of the Powers and Montenegro, and that an outbreak of hostilities is near at hand. Some account, therefore, of this question, and of the Montenegrin and Albanian peoples, may be interesting at the present time to our readers, The treaty of Berlin of 1878, granted an extension of territory to Montenegro, which included some land near Lake Scutavi, and also the port of Antivari on the Adriatic, and stipulated that Dalcigno, further to the south, and then held by the Montenegrin troops, should be restored to Turkey. These conditions remained unfulfilled when the Conference of the Powers, at which Turkey was unrepresented, inet, at Berlin in June last. This Conference

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