known correspondent, was there,
and his strong Russian proclivities caused much anxiety, more
especially as he and his young wife had been staying with Essad
shortly before his arrest. The Russian agents were suspected of
taking active part in the anti-Wied intrigues, and the correspondent
of the Birzhevije Viedomosti was in Durazzo and on friendly terms
with Dr. Dillon. The Russian, Olghinsky, I had met in Andrijevitza
in 1912, when the Montenegrins were making ready for the Balkan war.
He then complained to me freely of the apathy of the Russians, and
said he and his paper were doing all they could to rouse the country
to war. His paper (Birzhevije Viedomosti) had already, in March
1914, blown the war trumpet loudly:

"Until now the Russian plan of military operations had a defensive
character; to-day it is known that the Russian army will, on the
other hand, play an active part. . . . Our artillery possesses guns
which are in no respect inferior to foreign models. Our coast and
fortification guns are even superior to those of other states. Our
artillery will no longer have to complain of want of ammunition. The
teachings of the past have fallen on fruitful soil. Military
automobile service has reached a high degree of perfection . . . all
our military units have telephonic appliances."

More details are given, and the writer says: "It is important that
Russian public opinion be conscious that the country is prepared for
all possibilities." Yougourieff had given October as the date when
"we should be ready for our great war." The Birzhevije Viedomosti
said all was ready in March. To find Dr. Dillon, an avowed partisan
of Russia, in company with a correspondent of Birzhevije Viedomosti,
supporting Essad in Durazzo, was a sinister omen. He protested
Essad's innocence to me, but had no proof to offer save that Essad
was in bed when arrested, and that no documentary evidence was
found. The first proved only that the rising was not timed for that
night. The second was valueless in a land where few could write and
messages go from mouth to mouth. Subsequent events have proved that
Essad, as we suspected, was a Serb agent.

During the following days very bad news came from the South.
Eye-witnesses gave evidence of the Greeks' atrocities. It was
generally believed that as Italy was determined to keep the Greek
islands, she was conniving at the Greeks finding compensation at
Albania's expense.

At the house of Dom Niko