Europe Alarmed By War Rumors.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 23, 1912:
Sinister Reports of Austria Calling Reserves, Russia Mobilizing, and Germany Making Ready.
FRIGHT AFFECTS BOURSES
Vienna Hears the Government Is Massing Troops on Both Russian and Servian Frontiers.
DANUBE BRIDGES GUARDED
German Troop Trains Already Prepared — Austria's Heir Confers with the Kaiser.
NEW TERMS FROM BULGARIA
Envoys Are Named and Sofia Peace with Turkey — Dardanelles Are Threatened.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 23.— That increased uneasiness is being felt in European capitals over the possibility of a new and greater conflict growing out of the Eastern war is shown by many dispatches to the London newspapers this morning.
    While there is no apparent reason for the anxiety with which the general European situation is regarded, the fact remains that such anxiety exists and has been reflected on all the European Stock Exchanges.
    During a speech at Nottingham last night Premier Asquith, speaking on the same platform with John Redmond, touched on the Balkan situation. He stated that the attitude of the great powers remained as he described it a fortnight ago in his Guildhall speech.
    The powers were all anxious, he said, to stop further effusion of blood between the actual combatants, and even more anxious to limit and circumscribe the field of possible conflict. The powers were working together to that end, and, added the Premier, "I am glad to be able to repeat to-day that, while we and the others retain with unabated constancy our friendships and understandings, we are satisfied that there is no division of wish or purpose in the co-operative policy of all."
    In the face of this statement and the equally reassuring official statements issued in Vienna and Berlin, the reports of the mobilization of troops by Austria and Russia continue, while Germany also is said to be holding railway rolling stock in readiness to transport troops.
    In default, perhaps, of a more definite explanation, rumors have arisen that Austria is backing up Turkey in her refusal to accept the Balkan allies' terms. The reasons upon which such rumors are founded are obvious, but no actual grounds for crediting them have yet developed.