London, Jan. 19. The French official wireless service states that the reports of the surrender of the Montenegrins are premature. It is now announced that the negotiations between Austria and Montenegro have been broken off, the conditions imposed by Austria being quite unacceptable to Montenegro.
Jan, 18.
The Montenegrin Consulate has issued a statement that it is unfortunate that Montenegro had to aube mit to the inevitable, but it may be taken as certain that: King Nicholas and his Government only yielded after the Army had exhausted last cartridge: Even flight was impossible with the enemy on the frontiers and hostile Albanians in the rear. The conditions of surrender, the details of which come from enemy sources, may be discussed intermirably: opprobrium may be heaped on the unfortunate vanquished Montenegro in the great war. London, Jan. 18, The British press takes a sober view of the capitulation. It points out that the jubilation of the enemy is really a confession of weakness because he is triumphing over the submission of the pigmy army of the smallest. kingdom in the world, the firs of their adversaries to submit after eighteen months of war. Whereas Germany is weakening by the manner in which she is spi ing out, the Allies are supreme on the sea and are preparing a shattering blow at her vitals,
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