Austrian Fleet On Way.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 28, 1913:
Kaiser Said to Have Heard Montenegro Has Been Invaded.
    LONDON, Monday, April 27.— An Austrian naval division has left Trieste with 10,000 troops, with the intention of occupying Antivari, Dulcigno, and San Giovanni di Medua, and advancing against Cettinje, according to a report published in Berlin.
    The Strassberger Post asserts that the German Emperor has received a telegram to the effect that the Austrians have already entered Montenegro.
    The reports are not officially confirmed, but there is great warlike activity in Austria, and it is felt certain here that Austria will act quickly unless the Ambassadorial conference in London to-day decides on a drastic policy to compel the Montenegrins to evacuate Scutari.
    The Vienna correspondent of The Daily Mail hears that after a war council at which important decisions were taken Emperor Francis Joseph exclaimed that he had done his utmost to preserve peace because he wished to spend in tranquility the last span of life Heaven had allotted to him, but that Europe wished to force him into war.
    The Ambassadors of the powers presented a note at Cettinje yesterday formally demanding the evacuation of the city.
    The Montenegrin Ministers excused themselves from consideration of the note until after the Easter festivities, but it is understood that the reply when given will be an emphatic negative.
    In the meantime King Nicholas has issued a proclamation at Scutari, taking formal possession of the town.
    Essad Pasha, who has made a dramatic move in proclaiming himself King of Albania, is a native chieftain of the type that earned for the Albanians a reputation for barbaric simplicity, approaching savagery. He was always opposed to the Young Turks' repressive measures in Albania. In Vienna and Paris his surrender of Scutari is now regarded as having been an arranged matter with King Nicholas — a coup de théàtre to deceive Europe.