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1090 Notes 1814 On the various peace feelers, rumours of resignation and speculations about revolution, see the docu- ments in the HHStA, PA I, Box 511, geh. XLVII, 5g, Separat-Verständigungen mit Italien 1915 to 1918. 1815 Broucek, Deutsche Bemühungen, 460. 1816 TNA, Kew, War Office (WO) 106/318 Weekly Summaries 1917, here 23.8.1917. Also John and Ei- leen Wilks, The British Army in Italy (Barnsley, 1998), 21 et seq. 1817 Cornwall, The Undermining of Austria-Hungary, 77. 1818 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1513 No. 18, Note on the Strategic Situation, 7.7.1917. 1819 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1515, No. 33, Note on the Manpower and Internal Conditions of the Central Powers, 1.9.1917. 1820 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1511, Memorandum Robertson, January 1917. 1821 These considerations were presented by the British Prime Minister to President Wilson in his letter dated 20.9.1917. See also : Mamatey, The United States and Central Europe, 153. 1822 Martin Müller, Vernichtungsgedanke und Koalitionskriegführung. Das Deutsche Reich und Öster- reich in den Offensiven 1917/18. Eine Clausewitz-Studie, 3rd version, duplicated as a manuscript, (Innsbruck, 2002), 77. 1823 Arthur Arz (von Straußenburg), Zur Geschichte des großen Krieges 1914–1918. Aufzeichnungen (Vienna/Leipzig/Munich, 1924), 171. 1824 Ibid., 172. 1825 Martin Müller, Vernichtungsgedanke und Koalitionskriegführung, 84. 1826 Glaise-Horstenau, General im Zwielicht I, 432. 1827 Hecht, Fragen zur Heeresergänzung, 479. 1828 Ibid., 486. 1829 Peter Hecker, Kriegswirtschaft  – Modell einer neuen Wirtschaftsverfassung. Pläne und Ziele der ös- terreichischen Regierungen während des 1. Weltkriegs, in : Modell einer neuen Wirtschaftsordnung, op. cit., 48 et seq., note 44. 1830 See the highly interesting report by the Swiss major Guggisberg on his visit to the Isonzo front follow- ing the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Swiss Federal Archives), Bern, E 27, 12678, September 1917, 21–29. 1831 The essence of the descriptions given by the NCO in Landsturm Regiment No. 27, Hans Hartinger (KA NL B/428), 101. 1832 Ibid., 136 and Guggisberg report, 23. 1833 KA, AOK Op. geh. No. 421, 20.10.1917. 1834 This would have referred to the experiences later published in 1918 in 17 individual booklets, entitled ‘Gebirgskrieg’. 1835 TNA, Kew, WO 106/1515, No. 32, Report Delmé-Radcliff 1442A, dated 21.10.1917. 1836 Since, despite all censorship measures, it was not possible to prevent information from finding its way to the hinterland from the front, where it was naturally spread, in some cases, the army command im- posed a postal ban. However, the lack of post then led to consternation. To prevent this, the pre-printed correspondence cards were created, to which nothing was permitted to be added except for the address of the recipient. 1837 Jan F. Triska, The Great War’s Forgotten Front. A Soldier’s Diary and a Son’s Reflection (Boulder/New York, 1998), 54 et seq. 1838 Triska, The Great War’s Forgotten Front, 58. 1839 Schäfer, Lexikon biologischer und chemischer Kampfstoffe, 40. 1840 Diary of Krafft von Dellmensingen, quoted in Martin Müller, Vernichtungsgedanken und Koalition- skriegführung, 87.