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Show BULGARS HANDED PEACE PROPOSAL Treaty Formally Presented to Delegation at French Foreign Office. PARIS, Sept. 19 (By the Associated Press.) The treaty, of peace between the allied and associate.! powers and " Bulgaria was presented to the Bulgarian mission at the French foreign office this morning at 10:40 o'clock. After the delegates had assembled, Georges Clomeiiccau, president of the i . peace conference, spoke briefly in opening open-ing the session. He was followed by General Theodoroff, head of the Bulgarian Bul-garian mission. i M. Theodoroff spoke for fifteen min- J utes, pleading that the Bulgarian peo ple were not responsible for the war, . but that the Bulgarian government had i thrown the country into the struggle. ! He realized, however, he said, that the people must share the responsibility. ! King Ferdinand and Vasei! Badoslav- off, Bulgarian foreign minister in 1014, were blamed for Bulgaria's entry into the war bv M. Theouoroff. lie said the Bulgarian" people did not approve of tne German alliance, which he declared "came to them as a cataclysm,'' but : they realized they must accept part of the' responsibility. Var.h of the twenty-seven governments i participating in the conference, includ- I n Kurnaiiia, were present. J-rank L. j - Polk, head 01 the L'nited States delegation, delega-tion, sat on it. Clenunceau 's right, and Sir Evre Crowe, the new British plenipotentiary plenipo-tentiary to the peace conference, sat on i the president !s left. j The Bulgarian delegates, M. Theodor- I off, M. Geoff, M. Sakessor, x. tjtainbu-i tjtainbu-i liwsky and ii. Harzoff entered after the j ctlier delegates, who rose when the en emy representatives appeared. The Bul-; Bul-; gariaus showed courteous confidence in ! ' their demeanor. Twenty-five days are allowed Bulgaria to present observations ! ' on the treaty terms. The ceremony ecd- -. ed at 11 o'clock. Manv delays have marked considera- i tion of the Bulgarian treaty, which was ' . presented to the representatives of that government todav. Work on the pact I -was begun Mov 26, but the negotiations with Germany and Austria prevented the peace conference from completing the convention until late this week. Although the United States was not at war anv time with Bulgaria sne wiil be a signatory to the- treaty for the purpose of adding her influence in securing secur-ing observance by Bulgaria of the covenant cove-nant of the league of nations, which is an integral part of the pact. This countrv, however, will not be represented represent-ed oii the inter-allied commission charged with the enforcement of the financial fi-nancial clauses of the treaty. ;- Disposition of Thrace was the subject sub-ject on which the peace conference was forced to spend the most time in the preparation " of the treaty. As it develops, de-velops, this question has not been finally fi-nally adjusted, bu-. Thrace is to be excise.! ex-cise.! from Bulgarian territory and left under the supervision of the principal allied and associated powers, which will later announce their decision as to the future status of the countrv. A plan by which the port of Dedeaghatch. on the Aegean sea. would be given to Bulgaria, i v,-ith a corridor leading to it. similar to 1 that provided for in the German treaty I bv which Poland was given access to ! Danzig on the Baltic, has been consid- I cred. but it has never been formally ! ' adopted. Bulgaria, under the treaty j terms, however, is assured an economic outlet to the Aegean. |