We purposely omit references to small actions, which only bewilder
readers without military maps, but it is admitted on all hands that Prince Nikita has gained an important victory. He succeeded in inducing Mukhtar Psalm, with sixteen battalions of 400 men, to attack his main army at Urbitza, and inflicted a severe defeat. Mukhtar Pasha fled to Bilek, with 1,200 killed, his second in command captured, his cannon taken, and nine of his battalions disorganised. He has since been attacked at Bilek, and has retreated to 'frebinje, Mid' by the latest telegrams is reported to be surrounded. He himself admits his defeat, and attributes it to the disobedience of Osman Pasha, the captured second in com- mand, and the closing of the port of Klek, which interrupts his supplies. Should he be totally crushed, the Herzegovina will have been conquered, and in any future arrangement must be added to Montenegro. The Prince is doing most effective work, but he is compelled to adhere too closely to his own territory, lest it should be entered from his rear.
