Europe Frightened By Balkan Menace.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 26, 1912:
More Incidents Increase Gravity of Situation — Another Turkish-Bulgarian Fight.
WARLIKE MOVE BY TURKEY
50,000 Troops to Engage in Manoeuvres In Adrianople Vilayet — Porte May Desire War with Neighbor.    LONDON, Thursday, Sept. 26.— The crisis in the Balkans is causing great disquietude among diplomats here.
    Incidents such as the arrest yesterday of Austrian soldiers on the Servian frontier and the firing by Turks on a Greek steamer at Samoa are embittering the peoples of the States directly interested, and it will, it is thought, take all the ingenuity of the Foreign Offices and their representatives in Turkey to avert the Balkan outbreak so often predicted.
    Turkey's decision to hold military manoeuvres in the Vilayet of Adrianople, which the Bulgarians are considered as likely to look upon as a threat, leads to the belief that Turkey is not averse to a diversion which would allow peace to be signed with Italy under cover of the necessity for the protection of the Turkish frontiers.
    The danger of the situation places it in the forefront of the conversations at Balmoral between King George and Sergius Sazonoff, the Russian Foreign Minister. It is understood that Russia will propose the adoption of an Anglo-Russian scheme of reform for submission to the powers.