Austria Causes Alarm.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 11, 1912:
Declaration by Her Foreign Minister Creates a Sensation.
    LONDON, Friday, Oct. 11.— Montenegro claims the first victory in the Balkan war by the capture of the strong Turkish position on Detchitch Mountain, whose commander surrendered yesterday with the bulk of his forces. Montenegrins also crossed the frontier near Berani and, according to a Turkish account, have been repulsed.
    The general situation, in the meanwhile, is as puzzling as before. No declaration of war has been issued by the other allied Balkan States, and there is no news yet of their Ministers having left Constantinople. It cannot, therefore, be definitely said whether Montenegro has acted independently, with the motive of forcing a conflict so as to render the powers' efforts to preserve peace nugatory, or in accordance with a strategic plan arranged by the Balkan coalition.
    The powers yesterday presented a collective note inviting Turkey to discuss a scheme for reforms in Macedonia. It appears, however, as though, while diplomacy is trying to arrange the matter peacefully, guns will decide it for them.
    More Bulgarian attacks on Turkish frontier towns are reported, and the opinion is growing that the Balkan States are using diplomatic delays only in order to concentrate their forces in readiness for an inevitable outbreak.
    A statement made by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, Count von Berchtold, to the Hungarian delegation yesterday that Austria was prepared to guard her interests in the Balkans at all hazards, created a sensation in European capitals, as an indication that the powers may be unable to confine themselves to the policy of merely holding the ropes.
    The Frankfurter Zeitung publishes a sensational report that Greece will withdraw from the Balkan agreement and demobilize, but this is hardly credited here.
    Both Greece and Turkey are trying to purchase the Chinese cruiser Chao-Ho, recently built at Newcastle.
    Heavy losses were inflicted by the Turkish troops on a band of Greeks numbering 1,000 men, who yesterday attacked a Turkish frontier post near Dhisikata. They were driven back over the frontier, according to a news agency dispatch from Salonika.
    A skirmish between armed Bulgarian peasants and Turkish frontier guards occurred on Tuesday at Youletepe, near Kirk Kilisseh, according to a dispatch to The Daily Mail. Fifteen Turkish soldiers were wounded. The commanding officer at Kirk Kilisseh has been ordered to take measures to prevent further attacks.
    The mobilization of the Bulgarian Army is complete, says a Sofia telegram. Five Russian aviators arrived yesterday to operate with the Bulgarian forces.