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Show Senators Who Were in 1870 Campaign to H Witness Signing. j' I 300 JOURNALISTS I Cavalry and Infantry to Guard Palace H Grounds. 1 1 PARIS. June 24 (By the Associateu I Press) Notable among the persons who will attend the ceremony of the signing of the treaty this week will be five senators who participated in the campaign of 1870. Premier Clemen ceau announced in the senate today that these men will be honored with places in the Hall of Mirrors in the chauteau at Versailles. , Marshal Petain, accompanied bv six French generals, Mrs. Wilson and her secretary. Miss Margaret Wilson will ! be among the thousand persons, in ' eluding delegates and secretaries, who j will be presenl when the Germans at- ; tacfa their signatures to the treaty. Three hundred journalists from all the j interested nations, a few neutral news i paper correspondents and about 800 1 guests apportioned among the signa- j tory nations will have places in the Seven regiments of cavalry and four j regiments of infant rj Will puard the i palace grounds during the ceremony Within the marble court through which all the witnesses except the Germans will pass, will be stationed a company com-pany of drummers and buglers No other musicians will participate. All the soldiers within the palace will h-members h-members of tbe republican guard-wearing guard-wearing silver helmets, red coats and white breeches The Germans will be admitted at a Bide entrance from the park after the other delegations are seated at the horseshoe table within which will be the signing table where the treaty will lie. BLa |