Improper Communication

A few days passed before everything that needed to be prepared had been properly gathered and shipped off to the Alps. A desolate region of the mountain range near the borders of Italy. Though not exactly on the borders of Italy, as that might be seen as an act of aggression. 

Though invited to take part in the military exercise, the Italians chose not to do so. Prompting Kaiser Wilhelm II to believe that maybe Bruno had been right about them not being faithful to the alliance when the day came. 

Though it wasn't a serious enough issue to immediately push for their removal from the Central Powers, it did serve to act as a cautionary example. As for Bruno, he was dressed in his field attire. Which was to put it simply, was a standard uniform as issued to the individual soldiers in the army, albeit with the insignia on his collar of a General der Infanterie.