The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . m ^ ^ ^ ^ s«^ s^ c c a) C o^ c iJ^ 1^! « a = o fl 2 = 11 -> >.^ CO ^ 1:3 ^ -1- 1—1 ^ <5 •^-§ Q = a S < i;;;b o a /—? = ^-^ U. ^ f^-^ -- o o a -i- S ^^ a HZ ^ C c3 a 2^ 77 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES This extraordinary success caused the greatest surprize inWestern Europe. ]\I. Poincare, for France, proposed thatin any action they might take, the Powers should pledgethemselves to territorial disinterestedness. This did notmeet with favor from the Tri


The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . m ^ ^ ^ ^ s«^ s^ c c a) C o^ c iJ^ 1^! « a = o fl 2 = 11 -> >.^ CO ^ 1:3 ^ -1- 1—1 ^ <5 •^-§ Q = a S < i;;;b o a /—? = ^-^ U. ^ f^-^ -- o o a -i- S ^^ a HZ ^ C c3 a 2^ 77 OUTBREAK AND CAUSES This extraordinary success caused the greatest surprize inWestern Europe. ]\I. Poincare, for France, proposed thatin any action they might take, the Powers should pledgethemselves to territorial disinterestedness. This did notmeet with favor from the Triple Alliance—that is, fromGermany, Austria, and Italy, and Austria announced herintention of taking all steps necessary to protect her terri-torial interests. She was known to be hostile to any move-ment that would extend Serbian territory to the Adriatic,or any that, by imposing a barrier of Slavic States, wouldcut Austria off from the road to Salonica. Toward the endof November, Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Sec-retary, proposed that representatives of the powers beauthorized to confer on the settlement at some Eur


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