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Title: Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Author: Durham M. Edith

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWENTY YEARS OF BALKAN TANGLE ***

TWENTY YEARS OF BALKAN TANGLE
BY
M. EDITH DURHAM.

AUTHOR OF THE BURDEN OF THE BALKANS,
HIGH ALBANIA,
THE STRUGGLE FOR SCUTARI, ETC.

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD. RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET,
W.C.1

First published 1920

(All rights reserved)

PREFACE

"And let men beware how they neglect and suffer Matter of Trouble to
be prepared; for no Man can forbid the Sparke nor tell whence it
come." BACON.

MINE is but a tale of small straws; but of small straws carefully
collected. And small straws show whence the wind blows. There are
currents and cross currents which may make a whirlwind.

For this reason the tale of the plots and counterplots through which
I lived in my many years of Balkan travel, seems worth the telling.
Events which were incomprehensible at the time have since been
illumined by later developments, and I myself am surprised to find
how accurately small facts noted in my diaries, fit in with official
revelations.

Every detail, every new point of view, may help the future history
in calmer days than these, to a just understanding of the world
catastrophe. It is with this hope that I record the main facts of
the scenes I witnessed and in which I sometimes played a part.

M. E. DURHAM.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1. PICKING UP THE THREADS
CHAPTER 2. MONTENEGRO AND HER RULERS
CHAPTER 3. FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF LAND AND PEOPLE
CHAPTER 4. SERBIA AND THE WAY THERE
CHAPTER 5. WHAT WAS BEHIND IT ALL
CHAPTER 6. THE GREAT SERBIAN IDEA
CHAPTER 7. 1903 AND WHAT HAPPENED
CHAPTER 8. MACEDONIA 1903-1904
CHAPTER 9. ALBANIA
CHAPTER 10. MURDER WILL OUT
CHAPTER 11. 1905
CHAPTER 12. BOSNIA AND THE HERZEGOVINA
CHAPTER 13. BOSNIA IN 1906. THE PLOT THICKENS
CHAPTER 14. 1907
CHAPTER 15. 1908: A FATEFUL YEAR
CHAPTER 16. 1909.
CHAPTER 17. 1910
CHAPTER 18. 1911 AND THE INSURRECTION OF THE CATHOLICS
CHAPTER 19. 1912. T