heir co-operation would have been
very welcome if they had satisfied the authorities that they were as
non-political as the Americans. It was curious that those who in the
British press ventilated the grievances of these missions were the same
people who championed Nikita.

The Italians persevered in their manoeuvres--Nikola Kova[vc]evi['c],
the police commissary of Grahovo, sent in the month of May a
confidential man of his to the Italian General at Dobrota, near Kotor.
This man, who speaks perfect Italian, told the General that ever since
1916 he had haunted the forests as the leader of a band. Fifty persons,
he said, had attached themselves to him; and he had now come in for a
supply of arms and money, also for instructions. It would be impossible,
said he, to endure the Serbian troops much longer in the country.

ITALIAN ENDEAVOURS

"You must hold out for a couple of months longer," said the General. "I
can give you no money at present, but I can take you on a steamer to San
Giovanni, where we have a camp of the King's friends; and from there you
can easily go to Italy."

"I have given my word of honour," said the man, "that I will not go
without my people. So I must first of all go back to ask them."

"In a military way," said the General, "the Serbs can now do nothing.
They had tremendous losses in the war; and in two months the King of
Montenegro will return or else there will be an Italian occupation. Work
hard, my friend. I want you, in the first place, to set houses on fire;
then to shoot officers and officials who are for Yugoslavia. You should
also rob the transports."

Thereupon the man returned to Grahovo and soon afterwards the French
General Thaon, who happened to go there, spoke with him for two hours
and invited him to his headquarters at Kotor.

The disturbances in Montenegro did not cease; a country through which
you could formerly drive with less risk than in Paris, was now infested
by outlaws and those who pursued them. And Count de Salis, who had
served as H.B.M.'s Minister at Cetinje, was sent back to Montenegro on a
mission of inquiry. His report was not published, for the reason that he
did not beat about the bush in his references to the Italians and for
the further reason that he gave the names of those persons from whom he
culled his information. This was a fine opportunity for the foreign
busybodies who were thrusting their silly little knives into Yugoslavia.
"Count de Salis repo