New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-24
THREE POWERS MOBILIZE
Chief of General Staff Of Dual
Monarchy Has Long Con-
ference with General
Won Moltke in
Berlin.
KAISER CALLS UP RESERVES
Russia Apparently, Bent on Securing
Immediate Definite Solution Of
Near Eastern Problem, Includ-
ing Opening Of Dardanelles
to Her Warships.
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70 her WarBnlpS.
(By Cable to The Tribune
London, Nov. 23.-The air Is full
again Of omnous rumblings of an
Austro- German, Russo-Servian war.
To-days most significant news tells Of
the sudden arrival IN Berlin Of Field
Marshal Won schemua, chief Of the
Austrian general stan. who appears
10 have reached there yesterday an
hour ahead OF the special train which
brought the Archduke Francis Ferdi-
nand heir TO the Austrian throne.
The field marshal spent the entire
forenoon in conference with Lieuten-
ant General Won Aoltke, chief Of the
German staff, and departed for Vienna
last evening.
There seems no doubt that the gen.
eral outlines Of combined Austro-
German military action were tho sub
ject Of discussion. Moreover, the fact
that Germany, like Austria, il taking
farreaching precautionary measures is
evident from the news that a famine
IN railway freight cars exists in tae
Rhenish Westphalian industrial re-
gion. owing 10 the holding back OF
thousands OF cars for an eventual
TRANSPORT of troops to the Russian
| frontier.
Grave EventuaIitiss Feared.
Increa singly circumstantial reports
Of Austrian mobilization arrive to-
day. 1t is now learned that prepara-
tions are in progress for the mooiliSa-
ton of five army corps, three In Ca
licia and two in the southern districts
adjacent to Servia- Reassurins de-
malls continue to be disseminated In
official quarters, but 1t is patent that
Germany and Austria are busily en-
gagged in making themselves READY ror
grave eyentualities.
The Kaiser and the Archduke Fran
els Ferdinand are together at ths
court hunt at Hanover to-day, and In
the mean time 1t Is reported from 81.
patersburs that a military conference
inst held at Tsarskoe Selo will prop
ably result in the Car signing an or
der for the mobilization Of twenty
four army corps. Preparations for
such mobilization have been going on
for a considerable time, and 1t Is be-
leyed that it can be completed oy
the 2Sth.
Ciroumstantial reports say that the
first military districts on the frontier
wilma, Warsaw, Niefr, Odessa and Mos
COW, will adopt war footing. and then
ths Cossack regiments in the Don dis
,rict will bs pushed forward to the
frontier. Preparations in Russian fo-
land TOO. are almost complete.
Vast Army involved.
An enormous number Of trains will
be used in the transport OF troops and
war material to the frontier. fns
whole Russian army in Europe, inelud-
ing Transcaucasia, consists OF thirty
army corps, numbering l,5OO'ooO men,
Calling UP twenty-four army corps,
therefore, would be almost equivalent
TO a general mobilization involving
about 100000 men.
In an interview with representative
of the st. Petersburg Reich" a well
known Russian diplomat pointed out
that the solution Of the whole problem
of the Near East, including the question
of the Dardanelss ard the Black Sea,
in which the Russian warships have
been bottled up for more than half
century, was far greater than any iso'
lated problems concerning Albania.
Russia insisted on the powers taking
all the Balkan problems as a whole.
Vienna reports that 10000 reservists
have been called up in Ave army corps
by Germany. At the same time all re-
ports of Austrian mobilization are posi-
lively contradicted in official quarters.
but the Vienna correspondent Of "Ths
Times" says:
ITO preclude MISUNDERSTANDING IL
may De eAptuiollt W oDociNC lhol Wnou
rumors of mobilization are denied the
denial should be taken In technical
sense"
Censorship in Vienna.
In Vienna the bridges across the
Danube are specially guarded to pre-
vent possible interference with the
traffic OF military trains. and since
early this morning a censorship has
been established over all telegraphio
and telephone communications from
Austria to foreign countries; yet there
| is nothing which appears to justify
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