Balkan State Will Declare For War To-day.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 13, 1912:
Decisive Replies to the Powers Will Be Followed by Attack on Turkey.
SULTAN CALLS OUT TROOPS
Greek Prince Off to the Front and Diplomats Preparing to Leave Constantinople.
ITALY MAY JOIN THE ALLIES
She Gives the Porte Three Days to Accept Peace Terms or She Will Continue Hostilities.
AUSTRIA ALSO MENACING
Gives Formal Notice That She Will Take Military Measures to Guard Her Interests.
PANIC SEIZES THE BOURSES
British Consols at Lowest Point in History — French Rentes Touch Lowest Figure In 22 Years.
    Hostilities will become general in the Balkans to-day when Bulgaria, Servia, and Greece are expected to join Montenegro in declaring war on Turkey.
    Representatives of the three powers are making ready to leave Constantinople.
    The Porte has answered the powers' feeble note of conciliation by mobilizing its army for immediate conflict.
    The Crown Prince of Greece has gone to the fronts and 120,000 fighting Greeks are ready.
    Servia's force of 220,000 is being marshaled in three armies to invade Northern Turkey.
    Italy has given the Sultan three days to accept her peace terms, or she will continue the war, virtually becoming an ally of the Balkan league.
    Angered by the Montenegrin operations in border territory, Austria will at once take military measures to guard her own interests.
    All the Bourses of Europe were thrown into panic by the serious outlook. Government securities fell to the lowest prices in years.
    Vague hope lingers in some quarters that war may be averted, but diplomats now fear that it may not he possible even to prevent its spreading to some of the great powers.