Russia Mobilizes Army Of 245,000.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 30, 1912:
While Widespread Military Activity in the Balkans Spreads Alarm Among Powers.
WARNING TO TURKEY'S FOES
Intervention Is the Threat, but Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro, and Greece Are Preparing for War.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, Sept. 30.— Although there is ground for believing that peace will be preserved, alarming reports are reaching London regarding the tension in the Balkans, where the war spirit is growing, and is accompanied by widespread military activity. Russia has suddenly mobilized seven army corps, each about 35,000 strong, at Warsaw and the military centres of the Polish provinces. Although this is officially described as a "test" mobilization, this action has caused some alarm, inasmuch as no test mobilization has been carried out in Warsaw for a number of years.
    Bulgaria has suspended the dismissal of her reservists until Oct. 14, and is alleged to be threatening Turkey with a general mobilization, if the Porte does not halt its military preparations.
    Belgrade dispatches announce that Servia is quietly summoning the reserves and sending them to the frontier, while her Prime Minister has called upon Turkey to grant "home rule" to the Serb subjects of the Porte as the only means of avoiding a war.
    Montenegro has been warned by the powers against showing a provocative attitude, but there is news of an attack by Montenegrin troops upon a Turkish force, in which the Turks lost thirty dead and thirty prisoners.
    Greece has demanded satisfaction of Turkey in somewhat peremptory terms for the action of the Turkish troops in Samos in firing on a Greek steamer. The Turkish Government has promised an inquiry and expressed its regrets.
    A Copenhagen telegram says that, in consequence of several urgent telegrams from the Greek Government concerning the difficulties of the Balkan situation, King George of Greece left Copenhagen to-night. To a personal friend before his departure the King said in conversation that the situation looked serious, but he expressed the hope that peace would be maintained.
    A Constantinople newspaper publishes a telegram stating that a French cruiser on Saturday landed troops in Samos, where a revolution in miniature has been in progress, and disarmed the Turkish garrison.
    Turkey, it is announced, is willing to abandon the concentration of troops in Adrianople, to which Bulgaria has taken exception, and will hold the divisional manoeuvres in various parts of Macedonia instead, but if Bulgaria mobilizes her troops the Turkish Army will immediately be placed on a war footing.
    Reports from Berlin state that five Turkish divisions, of 16,000 men each, in Asia Minor are being called up.
    Meanwhile from Sofia comes news that, amid the enthusiastic cheers of its population, regiments of cavalry are entraining for Jamboli, on the southern frontier, where a great part of the Bulgarian cavalry is being concentrated.
    Hopes that peace will be preserved are based upon the reported action of the great powers. Although Bulgaria, Servia, Montenegro, and Greece have apparently arrived at a common understanding against Turkey, it is announced that they have been warned that any attack by them on Turkey would sooner or later lead to intervention on the part of the powers, who would not allow them to profit by such an attack.
    The Daily News correspondent at Constantinople telegraphs:
    "The Russian Embassy is seriously alarmed and is using the utmost exertions to prevent the outbreak of war. The Russian Ambassador and the Councilor of the British Embassy had a long interview on Saturday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Russian Ambassador endeavoring to persuade the Turks to change their programme and reassure the Bulgarians. "King Ferdinand and his Ministers undoubtedly desire the maintenance of peace, but the Bulgarians are so excited that it would require but little to provoke a declaration of war."