Fears Scotari Massacre.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 11, 1913:
Correspondent of English Paper Says the Allies Threaten It.
    LONDON, Tuesday, March 11.- The massacre of the entire population of the Turkish fortress of Scutari is probable when that city falls, according to a traveler who writes to The Manchester Guardian. The newspaper gives prominence to the letter, saying that the writer has had every opportunity to know the temper of the Montenegrin and Servian besiegers, and it appeals to Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, and to the European powers to take steps to avert such a massacre.
    The writer says that Servian officers at the Port of Durazzo boasted to him that they had exterminated the Moslem Albanian tribe of Lyuma. He continues:
    "Later a Montenegrin official assured me very earnestly: 'We have completely exterminated the Rugova tribe. When we had overpowered them we made them all pass under the sword. I assure you that not one of the tribe remains.' The Montenegrins' reason was that the tribesmen were animals — savage beasts."
    The leading Belgrade paper is quoted by the writer as recommending that no quarter be given to the civilian inhabitants of Scutari, and that the town be leveled to the ground.
    The Balkan situation came up for discussion in the House of Commons yesterday in the course of the debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne. Premier Asquith said:
    "An agreement on one or two points only, and these not vital ones, is required to secure the complete accord of the powers on the question of the boundaries of Albania."
    The Premier confirmed the report that Turkey had agreed to the mediation of the powers, which, he said, were now waiting to hear whether the allies also were willing to accept it.
    Mr. Asquith also reiterated that a settlement had been reached on the question of Servia's economic access to the Adriatic littoral and as to an autonomous Albania under European guarantee.