Outlook Less Ominous.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 12, 1912:
London Sees Signs of a Break in the War Clouds.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 12.— While serious, the Austro-Servian crisis is not acute as viewed in the latest developments of the European situation.
    A Vienna dispatch to The Times says that the chances of a pacific settlement is believed to be improved notwithstanding the arrival of Servian forces in the immediate neighborhood of the Adriatic Coast.
    From Berlin it is announced that the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria will keep an engagement to shoot with Emperor William on Nov. 22 and 23 at Springe, near Hanover. This announcement is obviously intended to have a political color of rather a soothing effect. A similar meeting took place two years ago.
    The special mission sent by the Bulgarian Government to Vienna is also regarded as a hopeful sign, being admittedly a mission of mediation undertaken at the instance of King Ferdinand and deriving additional importance from Dr. Daneff's interviews en route with Belgrade statesmen.
    Paris also reports that the diplomatic situation is developing on lines which were sketched as desirable in Premier Asquith's speech.
    The features of the morning's news are the bellicose utterances of the Russian press and the threats against Servia in the Austrian press.