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Show AUSTRIA HOLDS THE ADRIATIC London, Jan. 13, 9-53 p. m. Another An-other decisive stage in the, Balkan situation has been reached with Montenegro Mon-tenegro now following Serbia In virtual vir-tual absorption by the invading forces It was learned tonight that Austria and Montenegro had come to an armistice, this being construed as the last 'act of the little country after having its capital, Cenninje, dominated dominat-ed by the Austrian capture of Mount Lovcen. Whether King Nicholas will continue con-tinue the unequal struggle is considered consid-ered doubtful here, but the accepted view among the best posted men in London is that Montenegro has vir tually passed under Austrian control. The chief significance of this does not lie in the small territorial acquisition, which Is less than Serbia, but in Montenegro's Mon-tenegro's Adriatic front, lying alongside along-side the Austrian main offensive naval station of Cattaro, where today's dispatches dis-patches announce the entire Austrian fleet, including three dreadnaughts, is assembled, and from which came the recent naval raid against Italian troops going to the relief of Serbia, This further extension of Austria's Adriatic front, with the dominating naval center of Cattaro, is viewed as further tending toward the realization of Austria's object In making the Adriatic Ad-riatic an Austrian sea and thus check ing Italy's ambition to make it an Italian Ital-ian sea. Italy had so much at stake that officials and diplomats had been waiting anxiously for the steps she would take to relieve Montenegro and at the same time avert another Aus trian ascension on the Adriatic. They w ere aware that Italy had once before prevented Austria from gaining territorial terri-torial concessions from Montenegro near Cattaro, by emphatically objecting object-ing to the treaty made In 1912, As Italy was then a member of the triple alliance, Austria reluctantly yielded to the Italian objection. It was believed that dynastic reasons would play a part in Italy's assistance of Montenegro, Montene-gro, as King Nicholas' daughter is the wife of the king of Italy, but help from that quarter did not arrive, for the Italian expedition was landed further fur-ther south in Albania, and has not been heard from since. The London Times asserts that Italy's interests in Montenegro are as important as England's in the opening open-ing of the Dardanelles, and that the prospective annihilation of Montenegro Montene-gro will have far-reaching maritime consequences In the Mediterranean. The news of the entente allies' occupation oc-cupation of Corfu Island is said to have excited the greatest Indignation In Germany, where the fact that Achllo castle is to be used as the Serbian Ser-bian base is regarded as a personal insult in-sult to the German emperor. It Is said that the emperor has sent a personal per-sonal protest to the king of the Greeks, holding Greece responsible for any damage to Germany property. Rumors of the state of the German emperor's health have again assumed an alarming tone, but without authoritative author-itative backing. |
