After all, those who have deserved most in this Eastern
struggle are the first to win the fruits of victory. It is clear that the great demand for reinforcements for the Turkish armies in Bul- garia has begun to tell heavily on the Turkish troops pitted against Montenegro, and that the heroic Montenegrins are now more than equal to their opponents. On Saturday last Niksich surrendered to the Montenegrins, after a two years siege, and the garrison of 400 men was permitted to march out with their arms and baggage. On Tuesday, again, the Montenegrins attacked Ilafiz Pasha, who was advancing to the relief of Niksics, and defeated him, with great loss. It is supposed that this evidence of the weakness of the Turks on the borders of Albania will lead to an immediate rising among the Albanians. Suleiman Pasha would have done better to keep the Montenegrins in check, than to break his head against the Russian fortifications of the Ripka
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