Austrian Emperor Calls War Council.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 2, 1913:
Montenegro Offers to Compromise, but Immediate Against Her Is Feared.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wifeless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    VIENNA, May 1.— Intense excitement has been caused here by the announcement that Emperor Francis Joseph has summoned for to-morrow a Crown Council, to be presided over by himself. The Premiers and War Ministers of Austria and Hungary will attend it.
    War correspondents will leave here to-morrow for Cattaro, Dalmatia.

By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Friday, May 2.— The Ambassadors' Conference on the Balkan question met in London yesterday and adjourned until Monday.
    The fact that the Austrian Ambassador agreed to the adjournment is in itself a hopeful sign, but even more satisfactory is the offer of Montenegro to accept compensation for the abandonment of Scutari.
    While all along there had been a suspicion that King Nicholas was bluffing the powers with the object of getting the utmost possible out of the bargain, there remained the fear that the little kingdom, relying on Slav developments in Russia and Austria, might carry its intransigence to a point where active measures of coercion would be inevitable.
    Though the war feeling still runs high in Vienna, in all the other capitals of Europe the belief is growing that with time and patience Montenegro will be induced to climb down.
    While recognizing some slackening in the European, tension, The Times says:
    "Though the adjournment of the Ambassadors' Conference to Monday is everywhere regarded as a hopeful sign, there is no reason whatever to imagine that Count Mensdorff (the Austrian Ambassador) did not act on the instructions he is known to have received. Those instructions, it is understood, were to warn the Ambassadors' meeting yesterday that Austria now held herself at liberty to take independent action.
    "At any moment news may come that independent, action has actually been taken.
    "Every effort is being made to induce Austria to refrain from immediate action, especially now that Montenegro for the first time has declared herself ready to abandon Scutari if paid the price.
    "The price, unfortunately, includes territorial compensation which Austria regards as utterly inadmissible."

    LONDON, Friday, May 2.— No data has yet been fixed for the reassembling of the Peace Conference in London, but the powers are urging Turkey and the Balkan allies to send their delegates here as quickly as possible, in the belief that the conclusion of peace will assist in the settlement of the other problems.
    The plenipotentiaries on meeting in London will be invited to sign a draft of the preliminaries which the powers have already drawn up. This course has been adopted in order to prevent prolonged discussions.
    Reports through Vienna say that the Montenegrins are preparing Scutari for a siege.
    The reply of Montenegro to the demand of Europe for the evacuation of Scutari had previously been received by the powers. It is non-committal in character and keeps the door open for further negotiations.
    The little kingdom of the Black Mountain tells its big neighbors that it has the greatest deference for them and declares the capture of Scutari to be in no way a defiance of their announced decision to give the former Turkish fortress to Albania. At the same time, Montenegro suggests that there is room for discussion, and reserves the right of bringing up the question of Scutari in the course of the peace negotiations when the definitive delimitation of Albania comes before the Balkan allies and the European powers for settlement.
    King Nicholas thus, while he has not consented to yield Scutari, opened the way for further discussion.

    CETTINJE, May 1.— The Russian Minister to-day presented a curt note to the Government, urging immediate complance on the part of Montenegro with the demands of the European powers for the evacuation of Scutari and intimating that a policy of defiance was likely to lead to the ruin of Montenegro.

    SOFIA, May 1.— The Premier to-day informed the representatives of the powers that at the conference to negotiate peace which is to be held in London. Bulgaria would be represented by the same delegates as at the first conference.