Show montenegro 16 CRUSHED BY FOE BESET ON ALL SIDES AND WITH KING AN EXILE HAS ASKED FOR PEACE the tha unconditional laying down of arms arm made the basis of the open ing of negotiations and terms have been accepted london beset on tho the north east and west by austro hungarian armies find and with all lues ines of retreat cut off except into albania I 1 where hostile lios tribesmen must be faced montenegro has asked austro hungary for peace and her request has hae been granted the unconditional laying down ot of arms anna by montenegro was made tho the basis of the opening of peace negotiations and Alonte montenegro negro accepted those these terms imposed by tho the dual monarchy this announcement was made to tho the Hun hungarian carlan parliament hy by premier and it met with at ah ovation on the part of tho the members of the chamber thus cornea comes the first withdrawal of any belligerent from either cither of the alliances that have been fighting with each other since august 1914 it had been conceded for days that tile the situation in montenegro was a critical one although the army of tho the little king kingdom doin fought valiantly against tho the austro it was unequal because of interior forces lack of guns and it has been stated a shortage short ngo in commissariat supplies to the task of holding back tile the armies that had in conjunction with their allies succeeded in crushing serbia already tho the montenegrin capital andi and many ot of its important towns bad fallen into the hands of the austro hungarians Hung arians and the invaders were well on their way to Monte negros chief seaport Antl Anti varl vart last accounts had the montenegro govern mout at arl the whereabouts of king nicholas Is not known |