AN ADVANCE ON SCUTARI
TURKEY’S ONLY SERIOUS RESISTANCE. KING NICOLAS’ LOXG-ADIED-AT GOAL. (Received Oct. 12, 12.20 a.m.) PODGORITZA, Oct. 11. The war lias begun. The King and Princes, with a brilliant staff, attended the little church to witness the Bishop bless the Standard.
The first shots were fired amid Montenegrin hymns and church bells. Podgoritza is the centre of a splendid system of macadamised roads. Early on Thursday the Montenegrins ersumed the bombardment of Detchitcli, a detached hill strongly fortified and covering the entrance to Turin ii. The battery was —silenced at 11 o’clock, but in the meanwhile there was heavy fighting at Tuzi, where there is a garrison of about 2000.
The result is unknown. Tuzi commands the road to Scutari, and tlie garrison is reported to number 12,500. in addition to Essand Pasha’s 5000.
Tuzi offers the only opportunity of serious Turkish resistance.
There are 50 miles of natural obstacles before the Montenegrins—-small rivers running like the Scutari, but otherwise the road runs across a plain three miles wide. King Nicholas has long coveted Scutari, but if he annexes it is likely to offend Austria, owing to the latter's protectorate of Catholic Albanians.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 7
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195AN ADVANCE ON SCUTARI Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3652, 12 October 1912, Page 7
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