Ill Use Of Consuls Angers Austrians.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 19, 1912:
Vienna Newspapers Voice Strong Feeling Over the Latest Servian Incident.
FREE ALBANIA DEMANDED
Count von Berchtold Says Germany and Italy Stand by Him, and Expresses Hope of Peace.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    VIENNA, Nov. 18.— Speaking at the evening meeting of the delegations at Budapest to-night, Count von Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, declared that Germany and Italy stood behind Austria in the demand that Albania receive autonomy after the war, and expressed the hope that the Balkan allies would recognize the legitimate rights of other powers.
    The Foreign Minister also took an optimistic view of the incident over Consul Prochaska of Prisrend, which he hoped would be satisfactorily settled. Nevertheless, excitement is growing here over the affair. The Neues Wiener Tagblatt, which has hitherto expressed the views of moderate political circles, says to-day:
    "The matter is too serious to allow our patience to be too severely tried. We may express our regret that the alleged readiness of Servia to pursue a conciliatory policy toward this country should have so signally failed on the first occasion."
    Vienna and Budapest papers publish full reports of the scenes witnessed at the taking of Prisrend by the Servians, who forced their way into the Austrian Consulate, shot the Turkish police kavass, and seized all the archives.

Stories of Prisrend Slaughter.
    The Albanian chief, Kol of Dibra, stated to a correspondent of the Reichspost that the Servian soldiery fell upon the unarmed population like beasts of prey, and in a short time killed 111 men, 35 women, and many children under 6 years of age.
    The Reichspost also has a telegram from its Belgrade correspondent, now at Nish, who had a conversation with a merchant from Uskub. The merchant learned from Albanian fugitives from Prisrend details of the incidents in which Prochaska, the missing Consul, was involved.
    According to this account the Servian soldiers attempted to enter the Consulate, the door of which was locked. As they were attempting to force an entrance Consul Prochaska appeared at a window and called out to the officer to order the men to desist, declaring that the house was the Austrian Consulate, and that the flag was flying above the roof.
    The officer ordered the Consul to open the door, stating that otherwise he would bring up a gun and fire shells into the building. Yielding to force the Consul ordered the door opened.
    The Servians, rushing in, found the courtyard behind the door packed with Albanian women and children who had taken refuge there. The Servians cut down every one they found, turning the courtyard into a shambles.
    The soldiers then rushed upstairs to the Consul's apartment and burst open the door. In the struggle the Consul received a bayonet thrust in the thigh, the merchant believed.
    The Reichspost's Scutari correspondent, describing the Montenegrin occupation of San Giovanni di Medua on Saturday, says the courier of the Austrian post from Scutari was fired upon by the Montenegrins in spite of his signals.
    The Montenegrin General, Martinovitch, ordered the seizure of the Austrian mail bags lying there destined for Scutari and the removal of all goods aboard the magazine ship of the Austrian Lloyd, which was anchored in the port. The Lloyd steamers Karlsbad and Scutari were searched.
    A correspondent of a Danish paper says that a courier of the Austrian Consul with letters and documents from Prisrend, going to Vienna, fell into the hands of the Servian officers, who relieved him of all his documents. Of the fate of this courier nothing is known.
    The ceremonial entrance of King Peter into Belgrade, which was fixed for to-day, has been postponed for unknown reasons. It is said that unfavorable reports as to the health of
    Prince George and Crown Prince Alexander caused the delay, as the King wishes them to take part in the ceremony.
    It is also thought that the King is waiting for the capture of Monastir and Scutari before returning to Belgrade.