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Petar Plamenatz, though he had every belief in the British navy, had
none in the army. Peace was expected to ensue shortly. Montenegro
came to some arrangement with Austria, which enabled her to shift
her troops and occupy Scutari in the summer of 1915. A detachment of
the "Wounded Allies" society, which hastened to Montenegro, found
"neither wounded nor allies," so some of its members reported.

The mountain Albanians strongly resisted the Montenegrin advance,
but Scutari had been disarmed by the International Control, and was
easily taken.

The Serbs also anticipated peace, and concentrated forces in such a
position as also to be able to enter and occupy Albanian territory.

In April 1915, as we learnt later, the Powers who had guaranteed
Albania's independence, bought Italy's intervention by promising her
Albania's best port, Valona, and by the same secret Treaty bound her
over not to object should "France, Russia, and Great Britain desire
to distribute among Montenegro, Serbia, and Greece the northern and
southern portions of Albania." The Powers who rushed to war over the
violation of the Belgian Treaty, thus themselves tore up their
Treaty with Albania. Secrets usually leak out. Serbia got wind of
the Treaty in a garbled form two months later, and believed that the
whole coast down to and including Durazzo was promised to Italy.
Therefore, when it was yet possible to win Bulgaria's support by
giving her her "Alsace-Lorraine", Macedonia, the Serbs refused.
"If," said Prince Alexander to my informant, "I am to lose land in
the west, I will yield none in the east."

Another evil result was, that as we had planned the destruction of
North Albania, we could not call upon its help. In the autumn of
1915 I received a telegram from Sir Edward Grey suggesting that I
and some others who knew the land should go to North Albania and
recruit the tribesmen on our side. The frontier could thus have been
held, and the Serbian debacle prevented in all probability. But to
do this it was necessary to guarantee to the Albanians the
independence of their land, and to this Russia and France, it would
appear, refused consent. And the plan was dropped. The Serbs fled
over the mountains, where the Albanians, who had suffered much at
their hands two years previously, could have destroyed them, but
trusting to the honour of England and the Allies they let them pass
and even fed them.

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