Servia Abandons Albanian Claim.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 28, 1912:
Austria Also Adopts More Pacific Attitude — Austro-Russian Situation Improves.
SERVIANS REACH DURAZZO
Albanian National Flag Previously Raised — Berlin Reports Austria Will Send Squadron There.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 28.— Such few developments in the European situation as the past twenty-four hours witnessed have been distinctly favorable, and for the first time since the beginning of hostilities the chief places in the London papers are not occupied by the war in the Balkans or the international strain resulting from it.
    Word has been received in London that the interview between the Czar and the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at St. Petersburg on Tuesday was of a most satisfactory character, and that there is no doubt whatever of Russia's pacific intentions.
    Vienna is much calmer, and even from Belgrade comes an indication of a change in the attitude of Servia. This is given in an important dispatch from The Daily Telegraph's Belgrade correspondent, who says he learns from a most reliable source that Servia is abandoning her claims to Albanian territory, but cannot abandon her claim to an independent issue on the Adriatic Sea.
    In leaving Albania to the care of the great powers, it is added, Servia hopes that her claim to a port will be understood, and consented to by all the powers, including Austria-Hungary.
    The Daily Telegraph has received a series of dispatches from Durazzo, culminating with the news that the Albanian national flag, consisting of a black eagle on a red ground, was hoisted without ceremony on the Government buildings yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. The functionaries were peacefully persuaded to accept the new regime or clear out. Refugees are flocking into the town. Every Turkish flag in the harbor has been struck.
    From other telegrams of the series it would seem that the Servian march on Durazzo was halted at Kruja, ten miles distant.
    The hoisting of the Albanian national flag appears to have been the action of Albanian extremists, who proclaimed Albanian autonomy and appealed for the protection of Austria, Italy, and France.