Sunday, November 25, 2012

Huge Russian Force On Border.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 25, 1912:
    VIENNA, Nov. 24.— The official explanation of the censorship established here yesterday is that the Austrian Government does not wish to alarm the people unnecessarily by the spread of false or exaggerated reports.
    The real reason seems to be that decisive action has been planned, should Servia refuse to yield, and that war preparations have been made for this purpose, and also as a counter move to the Russian mobilization.
    While the mobilization of the Austrian forces is officially denied, it is admitted that precautionary measures have been taken to bring certain units up to a peace strength.
    The Neue Freie Presse asserts that by the retention of time-expired men and the reservists called up for exercises nearly all of the eleven Russian army corps located near the Austro-German frontier are near their war strength. It adds that one army corps and one cavalry division have been moved from the interior of Russia to the frontier of East Galicia, and that the war material of all these corps has recently been considerably increased.

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