LATE WAR NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 15 January 1916, Page 5

LATE WAR NEWS.

THE BALKANS, FiCHTiNC IN MONTENECRO. CETTINJE REPORTED FALLEN". Received January 15, 1 p.m. LONDON, Jan, 11. An Austrian official message states that Cettinje ha* fallen. Cettinje is the capital of the principality of Montenegro, 17 miles E.N.E. of Cattaro, in Dalmatia, with which it is connected bj r a costly mountain) road, and about 25 miles north of the seaport of Antivari. It is situated in. a narrow valley at an elevation of about 2000 feet and' consists in part of an old fortified monastery. It has an arsenal, a theatre (in which are the State library and national museum), a theological seminary, a gymnasium and a girls' high school, .supported by the Empress of Russia. The residence of the Prince is a modest building. The> population in 1806 was 2920. AUSTRIA'S PROPOSALS. FOR A SEPARATE PEACE. Received Januarv 15, 1 p.m. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 14. Austria ha.-, proposed an armistice to Montenegro • and the negotiation of a separate peace. ENEMY TROOPS' DISPOSITION. RELTEVIXG AUSTRO-0 ERMA NS. Received Januarv 15. 1 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 11. Router's Bucharest correspondentstates:—Turkish and, Bulgarian troops have been sent to tlie Italian, Montenegrin and French fronts, relieving the Aust ro-(.'ermans, who have been sent to Macedonia and Bukovina.

THE DARDANELLES. KAISER CONCRATULATESSULTAN A COMMEMORATIVE SWORD.-. k Received .launarv IA. ] p.m. AMSTERDAM. Jan. 14. The Kaiser, congratulating the Sultan upon the great victory at the Dardanelles, announces the gift of a commemorative sword. I ~ NEW ZEALAND & THE WAR. HORSES FOR THE FRONT. WORK AT THE REMOUNT DEPOT. PEE DNITEP PRESB ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Jan. J4. At the present time hoj-r.es suitable for military .purposes, are being purchased by the Government in all parts of New Zealand and sent to tie remount depot at Upper Hntt. to be transferred, iiv outward appearance, as* well as in trained intelligence, intu troop horses and horses for gun teams and teams for the transport waggons. On Thursday there were about- oXK) horses in the horse lines in the depot, and in the evening another batch arrived from the south. In the early hours of yesterday morning, however, over 400 of these horses were to be entrained and taken to other quarters, in continuation of their training for use afc the front. Altogether 1000 horses will be required by the end of the month to make up a draft for the Imperial Government. After that the buying and training of horses will go on steadily, as the mounted forces of all' future reinforcement* will take their horses with them. Of the three classes of horses now being bought, tb£ artillery teams average about £3G each, while the three-quarter draughts and ilio.se for mounted work cost approximately £2O eneh. Some, of course, run. h> a higher figure, and some a little . lower. Looking at the hundreds of animals standing row after row in the ' iiiveis, one was struck by the fact that the colour of them as a mass wan a brownish black, the lightest shade was. a medium chestnut and the darkest a pure black; but the preponderating color was a light bay. Chestnuts, roa-ri* and' greys are not favorable, chiefly because hor.scrt of these color* do not ■stand the sen. voyage well. Thev are highly strung-, and have not- always the stamina of tlie darker colored animals. White markings vrerc also Absent.