twenty years between two rival
garrisons both in the same town.

It was Whitsuntide, and several thousand pilgrims arrived at the
Troitza Monastery, just outside the town, from Montenegro, Serbia,
and even the Herzegovina, as well as from the surrounding villages.
Especially a number of schoolmasters assembled, all of whom ran
propaganda schools in the district; I thus learnt much of what was
going on. The schoolmasters were nearly all Montenegrins and
regarded the Sanjak as "their claim." They were furious with
Austria, because they had ordered a quantity of the usual propaganda
prints, grotesque portraits of Stefan Dushan, Milosh Obilitch, the
nine Yugovitches, etc., for their schools in order to preach Great
Serbia. Had had them sent by Austrian post so that they might not
fall into the hands of the Turks--and the Austrians had stopped
them. There was no Russian Consul there to see to it. Nor could
Russia be relied on entirely. Two Russian officials had been
recently to Miloshevo Monastery, near Prijepolje, and had declared
the language spoken there to be Bulgar. And it was the place where
St. Sava was buried! They were furious. Russian monks were now
firmly established at Detchani. That was all right. None of them
wanted reforms introduced into the Turkish Empire, because then
there would be no hope of tearing it to pieces. As in Macedonia I
found the approved method was to start a massacre and then cry to
Europe for help. On all sides I heard again that the great Balkan
rising had been stopped by the Russo-Japanese War. The Archimandrite
of the Monastery was bitter about Russia. "What does Russia want
with Manchuria? She has gone to take distant land that is no affair
of hers and has left her brethren in the Balkans unhelped. God's
curse is upon her." They were disgusted that Ferdinand of Bulgaria
had been guest at the German wedding. He was an arch plotter, but a
fool. "He wants to be Tsar of a wide land. But he will not succeed.
He has weakened the Serb position by his propaganda, but he will
never have Constantinople. Russia would trundle him out. She means
to have Constantinople. No one else will." King Petar was Serbia's
only hope, but the propaganda against him was active. England's
attitude about the murder was incomprehensible to them. Had
Alexander not been killed he would have allowed Austria to build and
control a railway through Serbia. The Montenegrins jeered at Serbia,
"a country that has a new mini