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Show MEN PREPARING! FOR WAR IN 1 MONTENEGRO ARMY OF AMAZONS IS BEING TRAINED DAILY. When Trouble With Austria Does Come This Organization Will Assist Other Troops. Chicago, Jan. 4. An army of Amazons Amaz-ons trained to wage war on the Austrian Aus-trian empire Is the newest body to lake up tho profession of arms, according ac-cording to Dr. Splro Sargenitch, commissioner com-missioner of health of Tacoma. Wash., now speeding westward from Chicago en route from Montenegro, where ho went to offer his services to his former for-mer ruler aud watched the women of Montenegro training for a possible war with Austria. "When we read in the 'Iliad' of tho women who helped in the siege of Troy, we were positive that wo would "not encounter' a similar condition In our everyday life," declared the west-j west-j ern health commissioner. "In our llt-1 llt-1 tie country of Montenegro, where tho j designs of Austria become more and 1 more galling as the days go by, our i women are preparing for a possible fray. Dally they drill and practice j with their rifles and revolvers, ami i when troublo does come, they will I fight side by side with the 70,000 man ; who comprise our fighting force." i The man who Is health comralsslon-' comralsslon-' er of an American city still refers I to Montenegro as "his country" -''r I he has served In the Montenegrin and I Austrian armies and wears the Order of Prince Danllo I, conferred on him a month ago. |