Allies May Withdraw Concessions.

New York Times 100 years ago today, January 20, 1913:

    LONDON, Jan. 19.— The Porte's decision to call a National Assembly on Tuesday to take under advisement the Balkan situation probably heralds further concessions on the part of Turkey — concessions which could not be yielded by the Cabinet without risking its fall. In any case, the Balkan delegates in London think the Porte's reply to the joint note of the Powers will not be such a flat refusal as foreshadowed from Constantinople.
    Yesterday's dispatches reported that the Turkish Government had reached a decision not to cede Adrianople or the  Aegean Islands, but was willing to enter into negotiations respecting those islands some distance removed from the Dardanelles. If Turkey's answer is unsatisfactory, the allies, in deference to Europe will ask the powers whether they have means to compel Turkey to comply with their wishes. If not, the allies will carry out the plan already announced, leading to the resumption of the war.
    In such event, the allies will regard as void all concessions heretofore made for the sake of peace, either to Turkey or  the powers. Thus they will not recognise the undertaking consenting to an autonomous Albania, or the promise of Servia and Montenegro to retire from the Adriatic. Questioned as to the possibility in this case of Austria employing force, the head of one of the delegations said to-day:
    "We shall see whether the Triple Entente, and especially Russia, will permit such action on the part of Austria. If we are forced to fight another war. the cost of which is nearly $1,000,000 dally, we will not abandon territories already occupied unless driven out by force. That would mean a European war. "If Austria were permitted to march on Belgrade and to bombard our troops on the Adriatic, and we were crushed, we should prefer to become Austrian rather than belong to the Slav race when our mother Russia lacks the force or the will to protect us."