I spent part of this afternoon in the News and Microform room of the UC Berkeley library, reading microfilmed papers from 1874 and 1882. As today's news is particularly depressing (as if war isn't bad enough, the attempt to push the ANWR drilling initiative through senate yesterday was sickening), I decided I wanted to bring home the news of another era. This is what I found in the Berkeley Daily Gazette, Thursday, March 20, 1913:
"Sends Ultimatim to Montenegrins. Vienna, Austria, March 20 - The Austrian government brought the Balkan situation close to a crisis today by making several peremptory demands on Montenegro. The Austrian minister at Cettinja, the Montenegrin capital, was instructed to inform the Montenegrin government that it must comply with the following. The free exit from the fortress of Sentari of all non-combatants. Explanation of the death of a Catholic priest named Palie, who is said to have been slaughtered because he opposed the violent conversions of prisoners. Violent conversions must cease instantly. Full satisfaction must be given for the violence shown by the Montenegrins and Servians at San Giovanni di Medua, on the Adriatic coast, toward the crew of the Austrian merchant vessel Skodra. Three Austrian battleships and three smaller warships left Pola, the chief Austrian naval station, yesterday for an unknown destination. It is supposed they are to support today's demands."