English Translation

-5- secret letter dee Kaisere not wuaate. Now follow - as the French revelations report - the secret negotiations of the prince. with Poin care, Ribots and Lloyd George in Felkestone and both with Sonnino in St. Jean de Kaurienne - everything that the responsible controller has a clue about it. No repetitive questions about the prince's activity were always answered evasively by His Kajestät, so that I had the impression that the action was based on my desire for a general peace. Nevertheless, I repeatedly told the emperor and the empress that I was ready to resume the negotiations, always on the basis of a peace for our entire cask group. On the 4th quay, the emperor - the Frenchman - let the king go. According to publications - according to France, he has received ßix peace offer of Italy and Ruseland - two quite incomprehensible, because completely out of the air allegations, which I would have refuted: immediately if His Majesty M had told me a word about it. Sonnino himself has since confirmed that he has never offered a peace offer and Kerenaki has never let anything say in Vienna. 17 In May, Prince Sixtus came to Vienna again X * The sympathies in France for Italy are very low, I con- ferred with the same again and had the input "we may Italy put firm blows then it will be soft pressure that his position this time is a more accommodating, niahte/very Germany than rather une towards. B0 and agree to a revision of the London Treaty." The prince emphasized that without Elass Lorraine a peace with Germany was impossible, but made clear that the Entente program of our division (Lën- Dieser Gedankegang uxs/stürkte danex mit mir den Plan várerst die österr.- ung. To cover the back of monarchy against the division plans of the Entente and then to set up a lever in Berlin and there to achieve the general peace thereby