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-9- WOULcLOCctt Coiroltesecomensto our dom stia- ontanstemteonvtuee wegde- ecuoteoam ap sme. ap mge di legend demieres or- nomon taopaaae ppenda-Pénrbentieted den Pnen novonomtooenpopmt. Ahnemoeaketpiefe-ni saos-coabmtoiotya IV. Three contacts after the visit of the princes to Vienna occurred aich nuf incidents of a different kind, which however stood in close contact with but the "letter affair" burst in the spring of 19l8. I had on the 12th. In April 1918 I sent a report to Emperor Kapl and 2 duroh inn to Kaiaer Wilheim, who has since become known to the public; I informed the Buses Council of the pre- scribed situation and advised xx of a peace with cpfern. This report, which described our distressed situation, was self-evidently top secret and only for the both Kaieer and her advisors beatimat. On 22 August 1917 Hohenlohe from Berlin reported that he had learned from the German government that my report had come into unauthorized German hands and from there possibly into Switzerland and into the hands of Entente representatives, because Erzberger had read denaelben in Frankfurt am E. to about 200 people. e d d de der d.) The German government, as well as Hohenlohe, pressed for Kiar- position of the matter. The emperor, immediately informed of me, x was ambushed; he declared that there could only be a gross negligence on the part of the ministry of the Aussern - if no longer - and he ordered me to initiate an immediate investigation and to give the eyes a severe punishment. However, the investigation in the miniaterium revealed the total guiltlessness of the officials. 200