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The only bad piece of news during the week, and

we must confess that it is very disagreeable, is that published on Wed- nesday. Mount Lovtchen, the position which overhangs the Austrian naval base at Cattaro, has been stormed by the Austrians, with the result that the Montenegrin capital is threatened, and it is to be feared that we shall soon hear of the whole of Monte- negro being overrun. This is a great evil to the unfortunate inhabitants of the mountain home of freedom in the Near East, and it is also a serious blow to the Allies. We-have been wonder- ing during the last fifteen months in amazed, though necessarily silent, anxiety why on earth the Allies have not taken the nava position in the Adriatic seriously in hand and destroyed the sea power of Austria.

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