egrins and
themselves--help to restore Nikita. But what was the use of saying that
"the poor people have no money and have nothing to eat; they are said to
be living on a herb of some sort that grows wild in the mountains"?... A
very satisfactory feature of the past year has been the migration of
7000 Montenegrins to more fertile parts of Yugoslavia. And as for
Nikita's partisans, they were such small beer that when they wished to
hold a meeting at Cetinje the Government had not the least objection; it
also allowed them to sing the songs that Nikita wrote, but that was more
than the population of Cetinje would stand. It is only at Cetinje, where
he reigned for sixty years, and at Njegu[vs], where he was born, that
Nikita has any adherents at all. As for his adherents at Gaeta, the
Cetinje authorities were perfectly willing to give a passport to any
woman who desired to spend some time in Italy with her husband or
brother or son. She might stay there or come back, just as she pleased.
And very likely when she got to Gaeta she would relate how in the
cathedral, at the rock-bound monastery of Ostrog, and in other sacred
places, one could see the Montenegrin women cursing their ex-king.

A GENERAL

The sinister shadow of d'Annunzio had fallen across Dalmatia and beyond
it: for instance, on November 20, 1919, the King of Italy's name-day, a
general holiday was proclaimed in the occupied districts. The director
of the school at Zlosela, a Slav who had never been an Italian subject,
gave--perhaps injudiciously--the usual lessons. He and his wife were
arrested and for months they were in prison, their six-months-old child
being left to the mercy of neighbours; and the local commandant, Major
Gracco Golini, told Dr. Smol[vc]i['c], the President of the National
Council, that the slightest action on the part of the Yugoslavs would
provoke terrible measures on the part of d'Annunzio's arditi, who would
spare neither women nor children.... The reader may remember the
Montenegrin General Ve[vs]ovi['c], who took to the mountains and defied
the Austrians. On the accession of the Emperor Karl he surrendered and,
much to the surprise of his people, he travelled round the country
recommending every one to offer no more opposition, to be quiet and
obedient to the Austrians. When the war was over the authorities at
Belgrade gave him, as they did to other Montenegrin generals, the same
rank in the Yugoslav army; but the numerous Montenegr