For Concert On Balkans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 17, 1912:
Austrian Proposition Halted In Paris as Step Toward Peace.
    PARIS, Aug. 16.— The project of Count Leopold von Berchthold, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, to obtain gradual autonomy for all the European Provinces of Turkey is welcomed in official circles here, but the French Government's attitude in the matter will not be divulged until the return of Premier Poincare from Russia and the French Foreign office has had an opportunity of discussing the project fully with France's friends and allies.
    The new fact of importance from the French point of view, which the suggestion of the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister discloses, is the apparent desire of Austria-Hungary for a re-establishment of the European concert, which so far as Balkan affairs are concerned has been practically in abeyance since 1903.