THE CENTRAL POWERS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14529, 5 October 1917, Page 5

THE CENTRAL POWERS.

DENIAL OF SEPARATE PEACE PROPOSAL.

GERMANY'S REPLY TO THE

POPE

AUSTRIAN PRESS ANGRY

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Amsterdam, Oct. 3. Berlin messages state ttat Yon Kuhlmann denies the Russian report that Germany proposed a separate peace, either with France or Britain.

Tli© Austrian press is angry at the German reply to the Vatican and Dr. ,Michaelis's speech on tte Papal ■suggestions.

The Austrian papers denounce Dr. Michaelis as an empty pedant for refusing to define German aims regarding Belgium.

Hindenburg, in replying to birthday congratulations, said the watci> I word of tho German people must be, I -"No more peace talk until the bloody work is done, and victory is ours."