IN THE MIDDLE EAST

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13651, 19 August 1916, Page 5

IN THE MIDDLE EAST

AUSTRIAN MURDER, A VICARIOUS PUNISHMENT, (Australian aud N,Z, Gable Association,) LONDON, August .10. lii the House of Commons Lord Robert Cecil said 'the Government had been informed . that Field-Marshal von Weber, military governor of Montenegro, had issued a proclamation stating that .unless M. Vochovitch, the Montenegrin ex-Minister of War, returned and surrendered M.'Vochovitch's father' and brother would be haiigcd. An official newspaper' had since'-announced that the brother had been hanged, but (he father was reprieved, [On June 26 Sir Roper Parkingion, the Consul-Genera) for Montenegro'in'London, received the following telegram from the Montenegrin iVlmq Minister, now/at Bordeaux: "We have-rceoived from Geneva the following commdnication; The tenia Post, tlit- official Bosniuu organ, published at Sarajevo, on the l!Otli hist,, .contains n I'rocla-. niation. from General Weber, Austrian Governor of Ccttinje, in which he accuses the former Montenegrin Minister of War and Governor of Scutari, tlcucral ltatomir A'ucliovitch, of havin.k, with .his two brothers, fomented an insurrection, in Montenegro, attacked the Imperial troops, and killed an Austrian officer sent by General Weber lb keep a watch on General Vochovitch. In his proclamation General Weber summons General'' Vochovitch to surrender himself as a prisoner within live days, otherwise his father and brother, already \,-irrestod, will be hanged. A warrant of arrest has been 'issued against General Vochovitch and bis two brothers, and a reward of 50,000 crowns is offered for their capture, It is believed that they are biding in the Albanian mountains."] ■