The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-11-27
SERv|A PREPARES
T0F|3HT AUSTRIA
Reported to be Mounting Big
Guns at Belgrade.
vienna EXPECTS CONFLICT
Relations Are So Strained That Poiitf
cal Circles Have Abandoned Hope
For Peace. =

TOT FSdSSs
London. Nov. 26.-It Is reported al
Vienna that the Belgrade forts are be
ing hastily armed with heavy guns BY
the Servian war Office.
Information has also been received
that all the Servian troops who can
be spared from Prisrend and Monas.
tir have been recalled to the SeryiaD
capital.
Relations between AuStria-Hungary
and Servia are now SO strained tnat
political circles in Vienna have aban-
doned hope of the preservation OF
peace, according to the Neue Geselt
scha1tliche Correspondent, of Berlin,
which says it has it's information from
diplomatic source.
Despite official Austrian denials OF
the reported mobilization of the Aus
tro-Hungarian army, the Correspon
denz declares that five army corps
have been already mobiliZed and the
reserves continue to be called up in
large numbers.
The Austro-Hungarian government,
it continues, is resolved not to await
the return of the Servian troops op
Grating against the Turks, and an ulti
matum to Servia may be expected in
few days.
The situation has become more
acute through the changed attitude
of Russia Sergius Sazonoff, the Rus.
sian foreign minister, after having de-
clared suitable as basis for further
negotiations the Austrian proposal
guaranteeing Servia free port on the
Adriatic sea and a. Servian railway
through Albania, but without teri.
torial rights, has now abandoned this
standpoint.
Austria is now disposed to push the
question to a decision because if war
is inevitable she wants to take ad-
vantage of her mobilization being
more advanced than that of the Rus
sian army.
Servia notified Austria that she can.
not definitely define her attitude In
regard to obtaining a port on the
Adriatic sea until the end of the Bal
kan war. This action followed coun-.
Gil, at which King Peter presided.
While Turkey and the Balkan alliesf
y sgaSs IN efforts to arrang
, z -
neparato1sv t6 a definite peace, pre-
arations elsewhere for possibiss,,.st.ziI's
BILE on larger scale show no signs OF
abatement.
While the intentions Of the great
European powers undoubtedly remain
peaceful, Austro-Hungarian procedure
seems to foreshadow separate action
which will make difficult the realiza-
tion of the plan of Premier Asquith,
of Great Britain, for the settlement of
near eastern questions as a whole
when the war is over.
The withdrawal of the Austrian
warship Admiral Spaun and of the
Austrian contingent of bluejackets
from Constantinople, and the sudden
and unexplained departure for an un.
announced destination of the Austrian
squadron which has been lying at
Smyrna, are factors which are disturb
ing diplomats, who see in a close un-
ion of all the great powers the only
hope of a peaceable solution.
The information that the Servian
war office has recalled all the Servian
troops that can be spared from the
columns operating in the neighbor-
hood of Prisrend and Monastir, and
that the Notifications of the Servian
capital are being hastily supplied with
heavy artillery, leads the Austrians to
infer that Servia is not disposed to
yield, and a pacific settlement of the
Austro-Servian dispute seems to them
difficult of realization if Servia's de-
mands are maintained as an irreduci-
BILE minimum.
Unconfirmed messages from Vienna
stated that 1000 Austrian troops
have arrived at Gravosa, on the Gull
of Cattaro, in Dalmatia. Within the
next twenty-four hours there will be
nearly 10000 Austrian soldiers at Ora.
vosa, which is an important strategic
position on the Adriatic sea. Messages
from Cattaro say that $4,000 addi
tional troops are being disembarked
at Gravosa from transports to help
strengthen the garrison.