Turkey Recalls Ministers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 16, 1912:
Bulgaria Has Massed 250,000 Men in Readiness to Invade Thrace.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Wednesday, Oct. 16.— With the signature of peace with Italy, the Turkish fleet is released and becomes no insignificant factor in the Balkan war now beginning. There has still been no declaration of war, but Turkey has recalled her Ministers from Greece and the Balkan States, and the allied Kings are expected to declare that hostilities have been begun by royal proclamations to-day.
    News from the theatre of war is still withheld, for the correspondents have not yet been allowed to proceed to the front, but the Bulgarian Army is believed to be ready to strike at Adrianople, while the Servian Army is divided into three forces. One will march on Uskub, Macedonia, by the Morava Valley. The second, after getting in touch with the Bulgarian forces in the neighborhood of Kostendil, will move on Uskub from the east through the Egri-Palanka Pass and Kumanova. The third will, it is expected, unite with the Montenegrin forces in the Albanian Alps and the Novi-Bazar district.
    The main Bulgarian Army, massed on the upper Maritza River with the object of invading Trace, is estimated to number a quarter of a million men.
    Europe is now completely resigned to a war in the Balkans and is beginning to gain some increase of confidence that hostilities will be localized. This better feeling was shown in the general improvement on the European Bourses yesterday. The recoveries, however, were small compared with last week's depreciations in stocks.
    The French Government has initiated an exchange of views among the great powers with a view to the adoption of a course of action which will preserve the harmony of the concert of Europe. It is to be hoped that a bitterly true cartoon published to-day by Punch is not prophetic of future failure. Bernard Partridge shows the representatives of the five great powers chatting together over cigars and cigarettes. "We discouraged the Chinese loan. We forbade the war in the Balkans. Now, how shall we assert ourselves next?" is the burden of their conversation.