Jan. 19.
Reuter's Agency is informed that a Council of War was held to-day which considered the general position of the war.
M. Briand, the French Premier, and the other French Ministers and also a number of naval and military officers attended.
The French Mission Iunched with the French Ambassador, when Mr. Asquith and the British Ministers were present, while the French Ministers will be the guests of Mr. Asquith to-night.
The Italian press has been recently strongly repudiating any suggestion that Italy has failed to support Montenegro. It now comments very bitterly on Montenegro's surrender, alleging that King Nicholas secretly agreed with Aus'ria in October last for the eventual conclusion of a separate peace treaty and that) the subsequent resistance was merely a sham. The Italian press mi alns that the capitulation of Monte negro was merely an episode and
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