Kaiser Prepares His Army For War.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 9, 1912:
Italy Brought Into Agreement on Plan to Keep Servia Away from the Adriatic.
POWERS SHARPLY DIVIDED
Triple Entente Inclined to Stand by Servia — Balkan Allies Refuse to Make Concessions.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Nov. 8.— The Imperial Gazette announces to-night that Emperor William yesterday conferred with the Minister of War, the Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, the members of his private military cabinet, the Inspector of the General Military Transport Service, and the President of the Artillery Inspection Commission. The German Army is now in a state of preparedness which would make actual mobilization a mere formality.
    An identical note, published simultaneously to-day in Berlin and Rome, affirms that the visit of the Italian Foreign Minister to Berlin, which came to an end this afternoon, brought about a complete unanimity of view among the powers of the Triple Alliance with reference to the present situation in the Balkans. This communication confirms the fears, now finding expression in the German press, that Europe is again on the verge of dividing itself into two hostile camps, as on the occasion of the crisis caused by the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria.

Three Powers Are United.
    Servia's now manifest insistence upon a free way for her trade through Albania to the Adriatic coast is the rock on which Germans are becoming convinced that the peace of Europe will be wrecked.
    The Vossische Zeitung, obviously on "Inspired" authority, states that entire unity prevails between Austria and Italy with regard to the conversion of Albania into an independent principality. Germany is in agreement with this project, which would be a deathblow to the ambition of the Servians to set foot on the Adriatic.
    "We are perhaps approaching," says the Vossische Zeitung, "a constellation such as existed in the Spring of 1909. Then Austria, with the aid of the strong support received from Germany in the latter's 'shining armor,' was able to carry its point. Italy on  that occasion stood a little apart. Today she stands shoulder to shoulder with her Central European allies, whose position is consequently immeasurably stronger than it was three years ago."