СРБИЈА И АУСТРО-БУГАРСКИ ФРОНТ 1915. ГОДИНЕ (СЕПТЕМБАР–ДЕЦЕМБАР) ИТАЛИЈАНСКА ВОЈНА И ДИПЛОМАТСКА ГРАЂА
SERBIA AND AUSTRO-BULGARIAN FRONT 1915 (SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER): ITALIAN MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC RECORDS

Summary/Abstract: The essay tries to reconstruct, in the detail, the general state of the AustroSerbian front after the joining the war of Bulgaria on September 6th, 1915, according to the Italian inedited military documentation. Italy is perfectly aware that Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria are literally persuaded of the intention to break completely the resistance of Serbia, whose military commitment had absolutely to be, in its entirety, addressed toward the Danube and not toward Albania. Italy suggested to Serbia, also through a strict and confidential diplomatic communication, take advantage only of what the 1915 Treaty of London guaranteed him. Italy began to show its military concerns in particular after the Bulgarian conquest of Skopje, and took consciousness that the key of Serbian resistance, at this point, could be just the advantageous relationships with Albania. As like as the other allied Powers, in particular France and Russia, Italy too refrained from intervening in favor of Serbia being already engaged against Austria-Hungary along the Alps. The Entente Powers, in general, were working carefully in order to persuade Rumania and Greece to join them in declaring war to the Central Empires and Ottoman Empire. The naval reparation by Italy and France especially for the ferry of the Serbian Army and Government to Corfu concealed the conditions for future disagreements between Rome and Belgrade. The Italian government, in order to avoid further problems relating to the territorial integrity of Albania, already compromised, prevented the Serbian troops from withdrawing to southern Albania or even partially transferred to Italy since December 1915. The profound reason for this choice had to refer to the intention of the government of Rome to contain the emergence of Serbism in the Adriatic Sea, in derogation of what was agreed in the Treaty of London.

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