Show all week the hun government ought toi for someone who would consent to be tile alio gont and attach ills his name to the pact first von on secretary of the pence delegation was selected but lie he was wai too unimportant to suit the allies and to 0 o he to declined finally dr hermann foreign minister ifera lein rt and doctor bell minister of 0 cot col irles were named to sign tile treaty ind hid accepted tile the unthankful task promising to be in versailles by satur say bornt morning n g it fell to the lot of tn in notify II 11 formally of the decision of the hie government to accept the treaty and in tile course of his note he remarked with unconscious humor no act of ilo lence can an touch the lionor honor of the german people as it if anything could touch a tiling so illusive not to say con nonexistent existent it there were wen buelt SUL a tiling thing as ger ann honor the violence of the germans themselves would have touched it twice the othir other day first when tile crews of tile the surrendered war chips sank them hero in scapa flow and lebond when a mob took from a mu leum and burned the captured french ings of 1871 which germany was as pledged to return to france in tuese these acts they are accused of violating both the armistice and the treaty and will be called to account also tile ho lilies allies or at least the french will de annd fiand reparation for or the destruction of f the war vessels the surrender of chose vessels wal wai part of gilb c ed jl paid by germany for the armistice till and I 1 lit in sinking them tile lie sermons deliberately libera tely stole flint which they had paid the fact that they apparently settled what might have developed into a dispute among the allied nit na tion i as to the disposition of the ships does not mitigate the crime tile tho ting flog incident small lit in itself was characteristic terl te of the low hitun |