Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-16
Balkan State Diplomats Be-
Ieve Austria is BIuffing by
Mobilization Of Army on the
Frontier.
BUlGARIANS WANT TO.
BEGIN H0STILITIES
Delegates Point Out That Rus
sia is Ready to Back De-
mand of Servia for Port on
AdrlatiC Coast.

AdrlatiC Coast,
! (By Morning Journal Special Leased WireJ
| London, Dec. l5.--br. Daneff, head
of the Bulgarian lcnipotentarics, re-
turned to London from Paris tonight
and the peace conference Is expected
to open tomorrow noon. Sir Edward
Grey. the British secretary for for
eien affairs viii make a brief speech
of welcome and after expressing the
hope of fruitful end of their labors
he will retire and leave the conference
to deliberate in private. The dele
gates spent a quiet day SUNDAY. Moth
ing has transpired yet to show whether
any serious difficulty is likely to arise
over the attendance of the Greek dele
gates Concerning the Austro-SerVian
controversy the Balkan delegates
think il the result of Austrian bluff.
They say: vienna having seen COM
pletely wrecked. her traditional pro-
gram of gradually extending through
the Balkan states to Salonik, has tried
to counterbalance the bad effect II
has had at home by claiming that AL
bania must he autonomous, according
to the Austro-Italian agreement con
GUIDED in 1907. Therefore, neither
Greece nor Scrvia can occupy the Al
banian-Adriatic coast. much less Ser
via, as Servia means Russia.
'W nat does Montenegro represent? z?
asked one of the delegates, with its
ports at An.iSari and Dulcigno, to
which Scutari soon viii be added. 1t
being no mystery to anybody that he
small kingdom can be considered A.
most as a Russian province ana the
Montenegrin army as a contingent of
the Muscovte forces.
According to the Balkan delegates,
Austria S increased armaments ana
the practical mobilization of her army
are due less to the probability OF dc-
claring war against Scrvia than TO the
grave internal situation in the mon
archy, the unrest in Hungary and the
agitation among Servians. especially
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. where
those holding positions under the Aus
trian government openly have protest
cd against the attitude of the empire
An additional cause for concern ini
the threatening attitude Of the SlaVs
Austrian territory. rms
resulted in the dissolution Of the
of Zbenico. Spalato and
Sara on the charge of being anti-Aus-
tran
"Vienna," the Balkan delegates con-
tinues, has two many troubles at
home to think seriously of war Tor
which she Is not financially prepared,
a fact proven by the loss recently con
tractod in the United states at a rate
of interest higher than any other
great power has paid in late years. |
.Besidcs Germany. Notwithstanding
her alliance, has exercised an nflu-
ence tending to moderate Austrian ar
dor.
admitting coup d'ctat on the
mar, of Austria. we know that neither /
scrvla nor any other Ealkan state
would be left alone. as Russia would
come to their assistance. Russia being
Lcday no more the Russia of the war
with Japan and indeed anxious TO
show what she can do in Europe. A.
the time of the annexation of Bosnia /
and Herzegovina. the Russian emperor
was on the point of sending an ulti-
matum to Austria. which would nave
led to war but he was prevented
rom so doing through the friendly
Intervention Of King Edward.
cit will be retorted that Germany
would support Austria against Russia.
cut in this case Austria would be
'orced by the Russo-French alliance
o attack France.
This would mean general conlla-
grafton, which all have more interest
o prevent than to hasten. and whicn
will not be brought about for a feia-
IVelv insignificant cause such as al
,lone the southern frontier cf Monte
,egro and small stretch Of coast ON
he Adriatic. I
No further deveiop.went in the in L
ernational situation is rep, ried. Nc-
.ording to "A Vienna dispatc., nothins
< known of the statement cliC1lateu
n Paris that Servia has protest. \ To
ustria against the Austrian inli.-rN
The Vienna Reichspost. in an artl-
lie dealing with the crisis. refers |"
he financial strain on AustTo- hun
.arv. 1t estimates the expenditure ol
military preparation at $105,O00,OOV
md the total LOSSES to the dual mon
lrchy in the last few years as re-
ult of the recurrent SerNian crises
9 nearly s625.0OD, 900. This latter fig
ire is understood to cover the depre-
alton in prices of government secur-
ties.
\ Belgrade dispatch represents the
'erVian government as ready, II nee
ssary. to send delegates to Vienna Tor
riendly negCtiations with Austria on
he basis of Albanian nAtonomH ana
eervian port on tho .sdriatic, which
erVia would engage not To transform
nto a military port. while Austria
-ould enjoy the right of preference
n ths matter of loans and publc |
f,rEs and the most favored nation
reatmcnt.
The Belgrade newspapers said tha',
cccrding to advice from the seneral
taft. the Servian government has Gre
ted two new army divisions to ne sta-
icned i'm the kosovo and Nerdcr uis-
riots i'm the newly occupied territot.
The bulgarian government organ
ofia the Mir. processes to be skepl-
al II favorable settlement IL ne
lares a majority of the members oi
he Sobranie which reassemnie ~a'ur
=. are dlsDoatentcd at the arrest OF
he Bulgarian army almost al N.
- r f.nnSt..ntinorle. Th-N want :