German Warning Given To Russia.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 3, 1912:
Chancellor Says Country Will Go to War for Austria if Russia Fights for Servia.
BRITISH-GERMAN HARMONY
Statement by the Foreign Minister Causes Much Cheering in the Reichstag.
RUMANIA WANTS PAYMENT
Threatens Military Intervention If She Is Not Rewarded for Neutrality — Dreibund to be Renewed.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 3.— Once again the general European horizon is obscured by thickening clouds. The German Chancellor's declarations in the Reichstag yesterday receive a favorable interpretation in some quarters, but in others are construed as a "warning" to Russia, which that country, still chafing under the memory of Germany's last intervention in shining armor, at the time of the Bosnia-Herzegovina annexation, is more than likely to resent.
    Vienna expresses the liveliest satisfaction with Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's statement. According to a Daily Telegraph dispatch, the Viennese press expresses the view that the Chancellor's speech was addressed to those in Russia who support Servia in her attitude.
    It is highly significant that Dr. E. J. Dillon, who throughout the crisis has consistently taken an optimistic view, in a dispatch from Vienna to this morning's Dally Telegraph sounds what he calls a "note of warning," saying:
    "Is it conceivable that a restless State like Servia should have it in her power to drag the great nations of Europe into the most sanguinary military struggle recorded in history despite their firm will and set resolve to live in peace? Reason answers the question with a negative, but a law-abiding citizen setting out for his business in the morning may be compelled to commit manslaughter before sundown by some frenzied citizen running amuck.
    "Servia," proceeds Dr. Dillon, "shows signs of running amuck, and here in Vienna people maintain that she thinks she has chances because Russia stands behind her. I believe bloodshed will be avoided, that neither a European nor a local war will be needed for the settlement of the differences between Austria and Servia, but my belief is grounded on the assumption that Servia will act rationally."
    In the course of a long dispatch Dr. Dillon rather suggests that Servia will act "irrationally," and says King Peter's Government is certainly drawing homeward troops from the Balkan theatre of war as if it expected that they would shortly be wanted in different territory.
    From another quarter comes news of preparations for war. This is Roumania which, it is stated, is working diplomatically and at the same time making strenuous exertions to support her claims by military intervention. Rumania expects to be paid a price as a reward for her neutrality during the war, and if Bulgaria is unwilling to pay that price all political parties in Rumania are agreed that Rumania must obtain by force of arms some advantage from the partition of Turkey.
    An Athens dispatch to The Times says The Hestia publishes an article dilating on the services rendered by the Greek fleet to the allies. It cites an official communiqué which points out that the Greek fleet in ten days was able, while executing its chief mission of blockading the Dardanelles, to occupy the islands of Chios and Lesbos, and protect the disembarkation of the Bulgarians sent from Salonika to Dedeagatch. In addition, the great service of the Greek mercantile marine, which supplied ninety-five ships, is emphasized.
    The article refers to the feasibility of a combined land and sea attack on the Dardanelles, and says that the Servian and Greek Armies are in a position to render substantial aid to the Bulgarians. Therefore the terms proposed by the Turks as the basis for an armistice are quite unacceptable to the victorious Balkan allies.