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-The most menacing feature of the whole situation is the

proof given by the stubbornness of Montenegro that she intends ultimately to defy the Powers and, if she can, to negative their determination that Scutari shall go to the new Albania and not to Montenegro. "If we are once in possession no one will dare to turn us out by force," is apparently the hope of Montenegro. The situation, it must be owned, gives rise to the gravest anxiety. One feels that anything may happen. Still, one must not overlook the cardinal fact that Russia does not want war, and, as far as one can make out, has given some sort of assurance to Austria-Hungary that war shall not be provoked on a punctilio or by the effort of any of the Balkan Powers to make ill-blood between the two Empires.

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