Montenegro Prepares to Resist.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 29, 1913:
    LONDON, Tuesday, April 29.— A Vienna dispatch to the Chronicle says:
    "News has reached here that Crown Prince Danilo is marching northward with the Montenegrin army in connection with the preparations which are being made to resist an Austrian attack on Cettinje. All the heights dominating the road from Cattaro to Cettinje are being hastily equipped with heavy artillery, and strong Montenegrin forces, supported by Servian troops are taking up positions in the mountains.
    "Montenegro has been furnished by Servia with sufficient provisions for the Montenegrin Army to last three months."
    A dispatch to The Daily Mail from Trieste says that 80,000 Austrian troops are assembled near the Montenegrin frontier.
    The Mail's correspondent at Gratz, Austria, says it is stated that Austria is planning for Tuesday a military advance which will not be confined to Montenegro. Troops will be sent in transports to Southern Albania. Meanwhile troop trains, crowded with riflemen from the Austrian Alps, are proceeding to the South.
    The Mail's Belgrade correspondent says that the alliance among members of the Balkan League clearly provides for concentrated military action in the event of an attack by Austria, even if such an attack has the sanction of the great powers.
    A Vienna dispatch to The Mail says: "Telegrams from Cattaro report that Montenegrins are making insulting demonstrations in front of the Austrian Legation. They decorated an imitation donkey with a dress coat, the breast of which was covered with fac similies of the Austrian orders, and hung it outside the legation."

Demand on Montenegro Filed.
    "There is no cause for pessimism, even now." This was the only official utterance that could be obtained regarding the result of the momentous conference of the Ambassadors of the powers on the Balkan situation yesterday.
    The conference lasted more than three hours, and the feet that another was arranged for Thursday indicates that the diplomats still expect to find a peaceful solution of the problem created by Montenegro's defiance of the powers. The representative of the Montenegrin Government in London has received instructions from Cettinje ordering him to protest formally against the demand of the powers of the immediate evacuation of Scutari by the Montenegrins, which is described by the Government of King Nicholas as "unjust and cruel." The demand of the powers is couched in the following terms:
    We have the honor to declare collectively to the Royal Government of Montenegro that the taking of the fortress of Scutari does not in any way modify the decision of the European powers relative to the delimitation of the frontiers of Northern and Northeastern Albania, and, consequently, the City of Scutari must be evacuated with the briefest possible delay and must be handed over to the European powers represented by the commandants of the international naval forces lying before the Montenegrin coast. The Royal Government of Montenegro is invited to give a prompt reply to this communication. The Montenegrin representative in London, to whom this demand was cabled back from Cettinje, said yesterday:
    "I have been ordered by my Government to protest formally against this unjust and cruel demand, and once more to ask the powers to examine in an equitable manner the vital question of Montenegro's future and to place that nation on an equal footing with the other Balkan allies."