SCUTARI'S ANSWER.
CAN HOLD OUT THBEE MONTHS OTHER POSITIONS OCCUPIED. (Received 10 a.m.) CETLNJE, November C. An Austrian military attache "landed at ■Scutari under the white flag to report the defeats in Thrace and Macedonia. The commandant declined to believe the officer's statements, and declared that Scutari* could hold oiut for thret months. The '"Reichspost"' save that the Montenegrins crossed the Bojana River, a small stream flowing from the basin of Lake Scutari, but a superior Turkieh. foTce a-t Berdica. compelled them to retire. Montenegrin officers, under cover of a white flag, demanded the surrender of Scutari. The commander (Riza Bey) refused* whereupon the Montenegrins occupied Alenssio, a small inland town, and the port of San Giovanni di M-edua, south of Scutari, on the Gulf of Drino.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5
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SCUTARI'S ANSWER.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 267, 7 November 1912, Page 5
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