ATTACK ON ERZBERGER.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151035, 29 July 1919, Page 5

ATTACK ON ERZBERGER.

POPE'S PExVCE OVERTURES,

SECRET CORRESPONDENCE

REVEALED

(Australian and R.Z. Cable Association)

Copenhagen, July 27. The Conservatives declare that Heltferich possesses a document compromising Erzberger.

The- Conservatives state that the Pope's peace negotiations were broke* off because the Entente demanded that Germany admit her war guiltiness. The. "Tageblatt" publishes Ludendorff's declaration that he never knew of the Nuncio's letter or Michaeliss reply until to-day. There was a secret indication to the High Command early in 1917 that England wanted peace; but Ludendorff, independently of this, learned that England desired an open declaration by Germany an regard to Belgmm. The Crown Council reached a decision on the point on September 11th, but Kuhlmann opposed it. "Vorwaerts" demands the trial of Michaelis for preventing peace in 1917.