Alarmed By Russian Activity.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 25, 1912:
Austria and Germany Promptly Took Precautionary Measures.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, Nov. 25.— The Daily Mail has this dispatch from Paris:
    "I have Just arrived here from Vienna.
    "Under pain of the severest penalties the Austrian newspapers are forbidden to mention the military measures taken by the Government. The first edition of the Arbeiter Zeitung was seized yesterday morning, apparently for having alluded to military preparations, and the subsequent edition appeared with blank spaces, showing where the censor had been at work,
    "Reports reaching Vienna to the effect that Russia was concentrating large forces of troops in Poland and that the mobilization of twenty-four army corps was imminent led to the adoption of certain counter-measures of precaution by Austria-Hungary and Germany.
    "There is good reason to believe that the defense of the Austro-Russian frontier, in view of Russia's military activity, was discussed at the flying visit paid on Friday by Gen. von Schemua, Chief of the Austrian General Staff, to Gen. von Moltke, Chief of the German General Staff.
    "It is still premature to speak of the mobilization of certain army corps in Austro-Hungary, but it is certain that six army corps have been brought up to what is designated as increased peace strength. These army corps are understood to be the First, with headquarters at Cracow; the Eleventh, with headquarters at Lemberg; the Tenth, with headquarters in Galicia; the Fifth, with headquarters at Pressburg, and the Twelfth, with headquarters at Hermannstadt, while the Seventh Army Corps, with headquarters at Temesvar, has been supplemented by two battalions of German-speaking troops from Vienna."