Show N I 1 PECE I 1 hun R representatives presenta tives affix signatures in historic hall at versailles ceremonies erem onles marked by absence of ostentation being frigidly Rec received elved president wilson first to inscribe name versailles nr sallies world pence poll 0 o was w as signed and settled in the historic hall of mirrors tit lit versales Versale 4 saturday afternoon but witter under circumstances willett which sonic soine what dlin nied the expectations of those who had worked nid and foug lit during it 9 long years sears of war mid of negotiations for its achievement china falls to sign the absence ot 0 thu ilia chinese dele gates ends who lit at tile the lust hist were unable to reconcile themselves to the lie shantung settlement find left the eastern empire outside the formal pur pi r views aws of pence peace tho the first discordant note lit in the tha assembly A protest which gew ml ajtan christian smuts lodged with ills his wits was another disappointment to the makers of the treaty huns received chilly reception lift hut bulking balking larger was tile lie attitude of germany and the Cle german pledl too aries which left them ns its evident from the original program of tile lay day 11 1 d from the lie expression of 31 clem of cents still outside tiny any formal reconciliation conciliation convil lation and madu made actual restoration a regular relations find intercom c oli with the allied nations dependent not upon the signa signature turc of the lie I 1 of pence peace but upon lipon ratification by the national assembly clemenceau gives stern warning to it il Clemenco cie I 1 lie aus stern warning in his opening remarks that they would ile be expected and held to observe tho the treaty provisions legally and completely ilia lio german delegates through ur dr von replied after returning to the hotel hote I 1 that had they known thoy would be treated on oil it a differ different sta status t its after signing than the allilu represent representatives at ives its as shown by their separate exit before the general body of tile i conference they never would linao lave signed jet I 1 under the circumstances the general tone of sentiment lit in tile the historic sitting was one rather of relief at the hie end ot illan of complete and unalloyed satisfaction tho the ceremony cere had been becil planned deliberately libera libern tely to bo austere befitting befit tho the I 1 sorrows sorrow fl mid sufferings of almost five I 1 years and the jack inck of and picturesque color of which many spectators alio w had expected it i magnificent ent state pageant pil geant complained was it a matter of design not merely omission ceremony ended in less than hour tho the actual ceremony was far shorter than lind been expected lit in view of the number of signatures which were to be appended to the treaty and the two accompanying conventions ending a bare forty nine minutes after tho the hour set bet for the opening the proceedings ce ec carried out without surface incidents dents since the germans were silent find tile chinese refusal to sign wits waa evident only by the vacant cl intra the sole words to bo be recorded lit in the protocol of tho the conference were M Clemenc aua short opening allocution with its brief stern starn warning to the hie germans finans rind and lils ills equally terse phrases declaring the ceremony closed germano first to sign contrary to expectations the 1 ner I mans were called to sign first find and no precedence waa wn given M X clemenceau president wilson or mr Lloy dGeorge who in fit tile the peace treaty appear only as members of tle tie respective delegations and discard tile dig dignities nitle s and responsibilities ties which hiring during the ofle negotiations tiati flat ions ons were summed up in the the big three tile two german delegates larose arose without it a word nt at M Clemence aus bidding find placed upon the lie treaty the sign german government leaders declared until recently never would ile bo appended to it wilson signs first for allies when they regained seats i titter signing president wilson 6 immediately tile arose and followed ly the other Amer american lesin plenipotentiaries moved around mhd two sides of the prent great horseshoe to tile the signature tables president and nd not M ahmen coati thus had the honor of signing first of nil all the leaders of the world alliance so many spectators lind fail lit in one mail maii ne aci r or another nn other gained S to till hall that the struggle for foi points ot f mintage it at times approached the lie stage of it a brasyl unil and the alio few officials entrusted with looping order hafid lit the lie greatest difficulty lit in seeming securing even em a semblance of order A dramatic incident tile most dramatic moment connected with midi tile the signing fig of world peace amo unexpectedly and tit at tile conclusion of this greatest cere mon in history when premier clem clein enegar president wilson find aind lloya llod george descent led from tile unit of lors to the alio terrace at the rear of tile palace bierc of slice tabors were vere mussed avith iw of th alic c three w lw ho lave ino dominated the councils of t tle allies there begun began a most remark I 1 i tile und find unprecedented with erles cries of vivo vivo VIM wilson vivo lloyd george lense crowds swept forward from nil all parts 0 of f the spacious terrace in mi fill instant the three were aio oio mir rounded by struggling cheering eisses mabson of people fighting for foi a chance hanco to got get neui near the sta statesmen tvs if I 1 C n smuts registers protest three incidents were by life amoo oiliness with etli which the cere ives oa conducted the first of these wa was 5 the fail tire of the chinese to sign the second wa ns s the protest submitted by general jan christian smuts who ho tilt pence peace the third unknown to the general public came from the Geri nang when the for tile hie ceren co remon fony was uns shown to t alio I 1 ie german delegation herr von on 1 1 hausen iKi usen of lie ho german delegation went ment to colonel alend hi nil french Llen cli bialson officer and protested ile ho said bild we cun can not admit that the german dele gittes should liter enter the hall by a different door than tile entente delegates antes nor cinat military lionora should lie ile withheld lint we VP known there would mould be such arrangements before the lie delegates would not have conic come 11 after n conference with alth tile the iloncai Ilon cli foreign minister it was ss decided us its a to render lender hollors fill n h the germans left otherwise tilt the program was ns not chanced in lit ills protest general Sin Alti declared that alint there were ero territorial set which lie he believed bolt bell oid eved would laced iccil revision khlon find that lint there wol oie i all tees eis provided ded which lie hoped holled bouli soon bo be found out of etli tile hie neu temper find state odthe of tina central powers punishments were also lie bo over which lil cli it a calmer mood night yet set r efer to pass kiiss we sponge of oblivion |