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Show HUN ATTITUDE INTOLERABLE ONE, PREMIER DECLARES I j LONDON, Wednesday, May 7. After the conference at Versailles today, "William "Wil-liam M. Hughes, premier of Australia, said, according to a lieuier .dispatch : "The attitude of Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau Brockdorff-Rantzau was an intolerable in:?ult to the conference, for while l-'remier Clemenceau Clemen-ceau spoke standing, the German spokesman spokes-man did not rise while ma king h.s address, ad-dress, In spite of their intolerable arrogance, arro-gance, this has been a day of humiliation humilia-tion for the Germans, which we could see had entered their souls." AVilliam F. Masey, premier of New Zealand, said: "The Germans were more impudent and aggressive than anything X have ever met." Aftor the conference, the dispatch states, tho fact that the members of the council of four did nut appear made tho crowd anxious, but It transpired they wore holding- a. meeting, and shortly after 4:30 o'clock President Wilson departed, looking serious, hut smiling. He saluted the crowd as he went to his automobile. A little later the appearance of M. Clemenceau Clem-enceau was a signal for the first great wave of cheering of the day. Premier Orlando also received an. ovation, but Premier Lloyd George, the latest to leave, Is said to have been given a. more generous reception from the throng. |