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Show CEHINJE IS NOW IN GREAT DANGER London. Jan 12, 11 57 p. m -V French detachment has been landed on tho Greek island of Corfu for provisional pro-visional occupation, according to an Athens dispatch to Renter's Telegram company Fourteen ships of unknown un-known nationality are cruising in the vicinity of Corfu. London, Jan. 12. Cettlnje, thr capital cap-ital of Montenegro, now seems likely to suffer the fato of Belgrade and British observers are already asking anxiously what Is likely to happen in Montenegro. Fighting Is going on all around Cet-tinje, Cet-tinje, the small town, which nearly a year ago ceased to be the seat of the Montenegrin government Never before in tho long history of the little lit-tle Montenegrin kingdom has It been compelled to bow to a foreign conqueror, con-queror, but there seems little hope that it can long withstand the overwhelming over-whelming strength of General Koe-vess Koe-vess In men and guns In Serbia's case, tho entente press finds It Inexplicable why Italian assistance as-sistance was not sent long ago to Lov-cen, Lov-cen, which, it Is said, could have rendered ren-dered impregnable with a company very small force and some heavy guns. The reduction of Montenegro, the press points out, will enable Austria not only to enter the Adriatic but also threaten the flank of any advance from Salonikl and prevent any effective effec-tive move bv the entente forces through Albania. For Italy the new Austrian successes has a most serious aspect The long narrow Italian peninsula pen-insula is peculiarly vulnerable to an attack from the sea Any really great Austrian naval base In the magnificent magnifi-cent harbor of Cattaro would have been impossible without Lovcen, but under the now circumstances Austrian possession of Cattaro is almost as great a menace to Italy as the Ged-raan Ged-raan conquest of Calais would have been to Great Britain Italian Transports Sunk. While attention is centered on the developments on the Adriatic coast, It is announced from Rome that two Italian transports,' the Brindisi and Citta di Palermo, last week struck mines and sank. A majority of the crews were saved. On tho Russian front the Austrian official communication records renewed re-newed desperate attacks by the Russians Rus-sians on the Bessarabia frontier, but insist that the attacks everywhere were repulsed The Petrograd communication com-munication Is silent on the subject but the Russians usually withhold mention men-tion of their movements until they are well on the road to completion. There havo been no important developments de-velopments on the western front. The blowing up of a large German munitions muni-tions depot near Lille is admitted in the German communication. Acord-ing Acord-ing to one account, this was due to a BrltlBh air raid. The English press believes that the cautious wording of the German communication conceals a disaster of large proportions. There is a great spirit of optimism In both British and French dispatches from the western front, the correspondents expressing the firm conviction of the allied generals that there can be no possibility of any successful German offensive anywhere In tho western lines. Claim Superior Forces. Tho correspondent of Reuter's sends from British headquarters an interview with an unnamed prominent staff officer who was quoted as saying: say-ing: "We now have full information about the German forces facing us. We know their exact dispositions and strength. We everywhere outnumber the Germans and also outnumber them In both field and heavy artillery, and our weapons are better than theirs. We can fire five shells to their one without depleting our munitions. Wo can tako their first line trenches whenever we wish. To say that we have got them beaten is dangerous rubbish, but the truth is we have them ready for beating." |