PLOT AGAINST MONTENEGRO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 19

PLOT AGAINST MONTENEGRO.

BUDA-PESTH", August 11

Nastic, th© journalist, who gave evidence at the State trial a t Cettinge last June, has published an amazing book at Buda-Peslh of the details of the Servian conspiracy against Montenegro.

When Nastic reached Vienna the police i conducted him to Croatia, and seized his correspondence, some of which implicates the Belgrade Court.

LONDON, August 12. i King Peter of Servia has telegraphed to the Servian Charge D' Affaires at London alleging that all Nastic's allegations cabled on June 5 referring to himself and 1 Montenegro .re absurd and malicious lies. * -

' Evidence of a sensational character nrai-ked iho proceedings in the trial of 52 persons charged with conspiring to overthrow the existing regime in Montenegro by means of bomb outrages. One of the witnesses, a " Bosnian journalist, and university student named Nastic, in a written statement, declared . that the bombs which, were seized were, by order of the Crown ■ Prince George of Servia, intended for use . against the I\ronten«grin Govemiaent. aix<J were manufactured by Servian artillery i officers at the arsenal of Kraguyevatz, with i King Peter's cognisance. The witness said 1 he participated in the manufacture of the bombs, and then revealed the plot to thf Montenegrin authoritiee.