It is understood that in the middle of April Austria-Hungary
became convinced that neutralistic sentiments might prevail in
the peninsula, and consequently became less active in her
negotiations with the Salandra Government. Thereupon Italy
resumed negotiations with the Entente powers, and on April 14
acknowledged that Serbia should have an opening on the
Adriatic Sea. This caused the Austro-Italian negotiations to
be heatedly resumed, and on May 18 the German Imperial
Chancellor read to the Reichstag the eleven Austro-Hungarian
proposals. The text of these proposals, together with the
Italian counter-proposals and the Italian exchange of claims
in the Adriatic with the Entente powers, will be found
outlined in the Italian official statement cabled by Minister
Sonnino to the Italian Ambassador at Washington, presented on
Page 494.
It must be borne in mind that the press comments are based
upon an imperfect knowledge of the ultimate proposals and
claims, and that the Italian attitude for rejecting the
Austro-Hungarian proposals obviously rests on these grounds:
1.
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