MONTENEGRO'S PITIABLE PLIGHT.
SALONIKA, July 14. An intense famine, accompanied by terrible mortality, is officially reported from Montenegro. The people are feeding on herbs, roots, and tree bark. Numerous bands of insurgents, with headquarters at Nikshitch, continue to harass the Austrians. To suppress brigandage the Austrians employ us mercenaries half i savage Albanians, who track down the insurgents and perpetrate inconceivably terrible cruelties. — (United Service.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 5
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