Excerpt from Stead's Review: May 18th, 1918 The correspondent says that l. Poin care. The President. In the negotiations proposed that Austria should cede Trieste and the Trentino to Italy in exchange for Silesia. The Emperor replied that there was an initial obstacle to this proposal. Namely, that whereas Austria occupied Trieste and the Trentino France did not occupy Silesia (the province which divides Bohemia from Poland. And which was finally incorporated in the Kingdom of Prussia too years ago). The dossier in cluded a statement by an important Aus trian personage to the effect that if Ger many proved intractable and an armistice were declared between Austria and the Allies. A revolution would break out in Germany at the instigation of the minority socialists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.