The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ar with the in ItalyItalian statesmen. For months, von Bulow argued and pleaded,first trying to induce Italy to accept a small partof the disputed territory and then, when hefound this impossible, doing his best to induceAustria to give it all. Austria was did not take kindly to the plan of givingaway her cities. She offered to cede someterritory if Italy should wait until the end ofthe war. This did not satisfy Italy. She was by nomeans certain that Austria and Germany were ^ ^^^ .^going to win the war and was even les
The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . ar with the in ItalyItalian statesmen. For months, von Bulow argued and pleaded,first trying to induce Italy to accept a small partof the disputed territory and then, when hefound this impossible, doing his best to induceAustria to give it all. Austria was did not take kindly to the plan of givingaway her cities. She offered to cede someterritory if Italy should wait until the end ofthe war. This did not satisfy Italy. She was by nomeans certain that Austria and Germany were ^ ^^^ .^going to win the war and was even less sure that the hand-Austria would be wiUing, in case of her victory,to give up a foot of territory. It seemed tothe Italian statesmen that it was ^now ornever if Italy wished to get within her kingdomall of her own people. In the month of May1915 Italy threw herself into the struggleby declaring war on Austria and enteringan alliance with Russia, France, and Eng-land. Meanwhile, the Russians were having difficul-ties. They had millions and millions of men,. (234) The Map of Europe 235 but not enough rifles to equip them all. They had plenty of food but very little ammunition for their cannon. Austria and Germany, on the other hand, had been manufacturing shot and shells in enormous quantities, and from the month of May, when the Russians had crossed the Carpathian Mountains and were threatening to pour down on Buda-Pest and Vienna, they drove them steadily back until the first of The great RussianOctober, forcing them to retreat nearly three retreat hundred miles. In the meantime, the Balkans again becamethe seat of trouble. You will recall thatBulgaria, who had grown proud because of hervictory over Turkey in the war of 1912, was when it came to a division of the con-quered territory. Thus she brought on asecond war, in the course of which Greece andSerbia defeated her, while Roumania took aslice of her territory and the Turks recapturedthe city of Adrianople. Th
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