Even before the opening of negotiations with Rome, moreover, Albania was doomed by the Allies to dismemberment; November 21, 1914, already, the Tsar expressed to the French ambassador in Saint- Petersburg, Maurice Paléologue, his plan in this regard:

“Deploying a map of the Balkans, he explains to me in broad strokes that Serbia would annex the Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia and northern Albania; Greece would obtain southern Albania, except Valona, ​​which would be devolved to Italy; there Bulgaria, if it remained wise, would receive compensation from Serbia in Macedonia…,”

This dismantling project did not remain a dead letter. René Girault, on this subject, speaks of a meeting ground conducive to all power nationalisms of the Balkans. The Serbs, after the attack on Sarajevo and the Austrian declaration of war, had crossed the Albanian border, on June 12, 1915, and occupied the entire center and northern Albania: Pogradetz, Elbasan, Tirana, Kavaja and Ishmi.

On June 11, 1915, the Montenegrin government decided to occupy the Albanian territories located on the right bank of the Drin up to Scutari. On June 15, Scutari was busy. At the end of their retirement, less than seven months later, the Austrians took the place of the Serbs and Montenegrins.