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The Moslems, too, vowed they would not serve outside Albania. And before any one knew what was going to happen a number of the Gruda tribe went over the border into Montenegro. Numbers of the Hoti and Shkreli followed. Scutari was astounded. The Austrians were furious, and vowed Russia had paid for it. The Turks clapped on further anti-Albanian laws, and most of the papers were suppressed.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Four thousand have gone, four thousand five hundred are in process of going, and two to three thousand more are to go as soon as possible." The unfortunate tribes of Hoti and Gruda been handed over to Montenegro and devastated. It was reported that Prince Mirko was out of his mind, and Princess Natalie had definitely left him and claimed the children Montenegro's only heirs.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

The Powers who wished to ruin Albania had arranged that the international control should not have jurisdiction beyond ten kilometres from the town, and gave no signs of appointing any form of government for the country, nor recognizing a native one. The two gallant tribes of Hoti and Gruda begged hard not to be included in Montenegro.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

Taking advantage of the unrest caused by Young Turk rule, he used as his lever old Sokol Batzi, a worthy man of the Gruda tribe, who had fought against the Turks in 1877, and therefore taken Montenegrin nationality. Nikola rewarded him suitably, and Sokol, in return, served him with dog-like fidelity.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle