t immune from error; and Miss
Durham is so determined to expose them that if all her charges were
dealt with from Belgrade it would necessitate the appointment of one or
two more officials. But in this particular case she is not the sole
accuser. A Captain Willett Cunnington--who, according to the President
of the Anglo-Albanian Society, the Hon. Aubrey Herbert, M.P., has
several years' intimate experience of Albania--said in the _New
Statesman_ that in consequence of what occurred to Captain Brodie the
Serbian Government was compelled to apologize abjectly. Now I happen to
be very well acquainted with the stalwart Pouni[vs]a Ra[vc]i['c], the
Montenegrin who arrested Brodie. Albanians have told me that
Pouni[vs]a's knowledge of the north and north-west of their country is
not a matter of villages but of houses. And he has always observed the
customs which prevail in those houses, so that when he is known to be
approaching, the people who live at a distance of many hours will come
to meet him, whether for the pure delight of discharging their firearms
to his greater glory or for the purpose of seeking his advice. It is not
because he has studied jurisprudence in Paris that they respect him in
that bitter region, but because he does not disregard the laws that
govern the wild hearts on both sides of the frontier. Yet I suppose
Captain Brodie had never heard of him--poor Captain Brodie! unconscious
of the great good luck which had brought him into the presence of this
man who could have made his journey much more pleasant for himself and
vastly more profitable for his superiors.

This is what Pouni[vs]a Ra[vc]i['c] told me:

"At the end of January and the beginning of February 1919, we were
having a certain amount of trouble in the Gusinje and Plav district,
where I was acting as delegate of the Belgrade Government. Travellers
were being murdered, telephone wires were being cut, and so forth. In
those parts, which I have known for so many years, it is a good deal
easier to ascertain a criminal's name than to seize him, and I had not
captured these malefactors when one day I had a message to say that a
European Commission was approaching. Later on I was told that
thirty-nine of its members were Albanians. I ordered my lieutenant to
find out whether they were from our territory, in which case they were
to be disarmed and brought to me; or from Albania, in which event they
were to be received politely. A quarter of an hour a