Petrit Latifi
In 1912, the Innsbrucker Nachbrichten published a travelers journal when he visited Shkodër during the Montenegrin invasion. At Buna close to port Samrish, there were Albanians fleeing the Montenegrin atrocities, stating that the Montenegrins had massacred families and attacked the village of Millë.
Në vitin 1912, Innsbrucker Nachbrichten botoi një ditar udhëtarësh kur vizitoi Shkodrën gjatë pushtimit malazez. Në Bojanë, pranë portit Samrish, kishte shqiptarë që po iknin nga mizoritë malazeze, duke deklaruar se malazezët kishin masakruar familje dhe kishin sulmuar fshatin Millë.
Godine 1912, Insbruker Nahbrihten je objavio putnički dnevnik kada je posetio Skadar tokom crnogorske invazije. U Bojani, blizu luke Šamrić, nalazili su se Albanci koji su bežali od crnogorskih zločina, navodeći da su Crnogorci masakrirali porodice i napali selo Millë.
“Original report from the Montenegrin theater of war.
The war was already in full swing when I from Scutari, where I arrived on October 8th. After a arbitration visit to the Austro-Hungarian Consulate we rode a miserable car to the landing place of Scutari, from where a small river steamer takes travelers to the Valbona course of the Buna to the small Albanian port of Samrish […]
[…] Then we see battalion after battalion with Sack and back to the city to the north and west blocking heights of Tarabosh.
[…] After the obligatory two-hour delay, we finally set off. We’ve barely covered a few kilometers, swept along by the strong current, when we encounter endless rows of fleeing Muslim Albanians on the north bank. We pause for a moment to question them. They stare at us with crazed eyes, filled with horror and fear of death, and hurry silently along the narrow riverside path, past us, a pitiful crowd.
[….] Something fragrant and gray rises above the green plain and behind the mountain ridges. These are not mists, they are burning villages: one, two, another one back there, four, five […]
In Samric, we have to change trains. From here, we travel on the Austrian Lloyd steamer “Skutari,” first on the Bojana to Medua, then in the Adriatic Sea to Cattaro.
As we are about to leave Samric two Albanian farmers rush out of the fields, wailing and moaning, onto the shore. Their white felt trousers are reddened with blood shouting: “They murdered our entire family! This morning they attacked, massacred and burned everything. Isn’t anyone helping us?!”
Montenegrins fired at the boat
“[…] We set off. At the first bend in the river, as we approach the south bank, following the deep channel and looking in a dense group towards the impenetrable bushes along the riverbank, we hear a loud cry of: Basf! Hjütt, tschapp! Close by, we hear bullets whizzing and then their impact, partly on the commando bridge. There can be no doubt that we are being fired upon at a distance of barely more than a hundred paces. The ships remain invisible. Those whom the bullets have passed by immediately fall into the stumps … “
Reference
Balkan Academia 