For Italian views on the group of questions relating to the Adriatic provinces, one would turn especially to: V. Gayda, _L’Italia d’oltre confini_. Turin, 1914. A. Tamaro, _Italiani e Slavi nell’Adriatico_. Rome, 1915. ***, _L’Adriatico. Studio geografico, storico, e politico_. Milan, 1915. Adriacus. _From Trieste to Valona. The Adriatic Problem and Italy’s Aspirations_. Milan, 1919. G. Dainelli, _La Dalmazia, sua italianità, suo valore per la libertà d’Italia nell’Adriatico_. Genoa, 1915. Dainelli has also published a useful atlas of Dalmatia, entitled _La Dalmazia. Cenni geografici e statistici_. Novara, 1918. A. Hodnig, _Fiume italiana e la sua funzione antigermanica_. Rome, 1917. G. Depoli, _Fiume e la Liburnia_. Bari, 1919. On the Fiume question it is also useful to consult V. Tomsich, _Notizie storiche sulla città di Fiume_, Fiume, 1886 (the fullest history of the city. Written in a vein of intense local patriotism, in the spirit of the old Fiumano independence party); Sišić, _Abrégé de l’histoire politique de Rieka-Fiume_, Paris, 1919 (review of the history from the Croatian point of view); and the brochure _Fiume_, arguing for Yugo-Slav claims, published at Paris in 1916 by Count Voinovitch and others. [Illustration: EXPLANATION Frontier promised to Italy by the Treaty of London (1915) shown thus ...... “Wilson Line” _____________ Proposed Republic of Fiume ////////// Part of Yugo-Slav Frontier ......] FOOTNOTES: [57] While these pages were going through the press, the peace treaty with Hungary was signed on June 4 at the palace of the Grand Trianon at Versailles. [58] H. Wickham Steed, _Edinburgh Review_, vol. 222, p. 234. VIII THE BALKANS It was in the Balkans that the World War started; control of the Balkans was one of the primary objects for which the Central Powers fought; through the intervention of our Balkan opponents, Turkey and Bulgaria, the War was prolonged far beyond what would probably otherwise have been the case; and it was in the Balkans that the victory of the Entente was earliest and, perhaps, most decisively won.