Kaiser Assures Archduke.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 25, 1912:
Full Promises Given Austrian Heir — Newspapers Warn Russia.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, Nov. 23.— The Daily Mail's Berlin correspondent sends this dispatch:
    "Archduke Francis Ferdinand left Potsdam for Vienna at 9:30 o'clock last night after a thirty-six-hour visit to the Kaiser.
    "Their conferences, in which the chiefs of the German Army and Navy participated, sealed beyond all doubt Germany's readiness to support Austria in the event of a war with Russia and Servia.
    "The semi-official Cologne Gazette addresses a veiled warning to Russia 'to speak the word' which can alone save the situation.
    "The Vossische Zeitung adopts the same admonitory tone. "The Pan-German press, going further, directly threaten Russia with another glimpse of the Kaiser in 'shining armor' with which he coerced her into surrender on the Bosnian annexation in 1909.
    "Germany's position is neither the blandly pacific one depicted by the semi-official press for the benefit of the nervous financial world nor the bellicose one set forth by the 'armor-plate' newspapers.
    "What the Kaiser gave the Archduke to understand was practically this: 'That Germany does not want war, and does not think any situation has so far arisen which justifies it, but that she is unflinchingly true to her Austrian ally and will support her unreservedly the moment she is attacked by two powers, in this case, Russia and Servia.' "

Russia Averted Menace to Servia.
    The Daily Mail's Belgrade correspondent sends this telegram:
    "I learn from an unimpeachable source that three days ago the Servian Foreign Office was informed from the Servian Legation in Vienna that Austria intended to renew her demands for a definitive assurance that Servia did not intend to hold the Albanian territories she occupied.
    "To give additional weight to her demands, Austria intended to send her Danube flotilla to Belgrade, but she learned that Russia was mobilizing considerable forces of troops on the frontier, and consequently abandoned the project."
    The Daily Chronicle's Vienna correspondent says:
    "I learn from Belgrade that the Servian reply to the Austrian note with regard to Servia's claims to a port on the Adriatic will be in the negative.
    "Servia will declare that she must persist in her demand. Orders have been given to the Servian troops at Monastir, Prisrend, and other places in Albania to move northward.
    "The Belgrade fortress, I am informed, is being armed with heavy ordnance."