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Show I Clemenceau Exacts Statement of Good Faith I 1 MUEULLER AND BELL ARE 1 LEADS ALLIED SIGNERS tfe Cannons Boom at 3:44 o'Clock Announcing Conclusion of Ceremony yf Smaller Nations Still Signing When Guns Begin to Roar Proceed-am Proceed-am ings Formally Closed at 3:49 o'Clock Four Hundred Privileged Guests Witness Most Momentous Ceremony of World's History. j . VERSAILLES. June 28. by The Associated Press. At i 3:44 o'clock cannon began to boom announcing the con-j m elusion of the ceremony of signing. The signatures had not In however, as a matter of fact, then been completed, for at that j J U" time the smaller nations were still signing in alphabetical ' The proceedings were formally closed at 3:49 o'clock. VERSAILLES, J une 28. General Jan Christian Smuts, n n Tte, one of the delegates representing the Union of South Africa, J 8ne e treay under protest 1 le objected to certain ter- I ritonal settlements, making a lengthy statement. VERSAILLES, June 28. The protocol was signed by u "bbwJ tnose who signed the treaty. The Rhine arrangement I - Was signed by the Germans. Americans. Belgians, British and laap French plenipotentiaries. ( U-.S All of the plenipotentiaries having "S11 ,h treat v. M rkm. nceau de jH Nared the session closed., 5 ibiil "Ah Pn-ml.-r Clemenceau, President Wlaon and Premier Lloyd George JJL emeru-.-.J from il,, j.al.i. i gn ai l3J itWwd gathered outbid.- -v..-j. aside the Stfli COrt)uri 01 'roups, h.rriiiL- madly 0 The three si.il e-rncn v. . -. wen 8 Jr" Ijy 'he -urgine ihousrindfl Many I pWiers broke ranks and joined in the rTA demonstration rhile -tins boomed and Befl ,ow "vine airplane., seem, d lo nil the ir. ti jLk Th "'prnjan d'lcgalcs kit the hall f1' a"', iJ r - pr -' n t a 1 1 ves remain "JgR in tln jr seats Those who had as- errace to seo the fountains playing, A t, 1r"nj I' Mi' nn ail and l.l"d P E016 and I're.-ident Wilson were ,V photograph, -d inc. ther on the terrace. liaMi r ,hl lr IIKn-' Tral K'n three al-, al-, putoiud.il,-. Hi., unv.d- ;.!!- v. in- .,nd JK rin;"r """'mL Washington, June 28 At io:30 il'i'M' I0' Wa:dalriKion lira'', it was an-BvUnr"1 an-BvUnr"1 h :" l;H'' ,!' P'H mi'iM thai Ve signing of the treaty had begun. m Signing of the peace treaty was be-HH& be-HH& IF0 at 10.30 o'clock Washington time, nil cftff"e offiriai rcjuiii to ihe state depart" 'B1'111 said President Wilson signed at Itm'.U o'clock Paris time , cJKDr. Herman Mueller and Dr. Jo-td'Panncs Jo-td'Panncs Kell signed for Oermanv at . JB'15 o'clock. CM '"' American .1. i gatfon had Mil" oed signing at 3:15, Immediately af-..'Wr af-..'Wr lJrp.-ident Wilson, the official re-'itiV re-'itiV Mft said. . .lThe ordr-r of signing afte President ''adPr. I""1D9lng' Wh,te- House Official Report Sent " ,iVERS.ULLES June 28 Official re-' re-' Won transmitted from Hall of Mirrors tt-P1 8l'"'' d-.pai tni,.)t prvsidont Wilson the American delegation complet-JRmM complet-JRmM signing the peace treaty at 3 14 tmclovk ,'-'-r; V UH Clemenceau Puts Question J Premier Clemenceau put the direct jiestion lo the G"nnnns whether they tOt F.f r-' billing to -len and execute loy-'Il.v loy-'Il.v nil ihe term.- Th mhrr dele-j gates did not arise when the Germans ( came into the ball A few minutes before 3 o'clock the ' fifteen enlisted men from the Ameri- i can, British and French armies en-tercd en-tercd the hall amid decorous cheers Pr .-ddenl Wilson entered the hall of mirrors at 2:50 o'clock. All the dele- Kates then were seated except the Chi- ( neso who will not attend ( The Germans entered the ball at ex- 1 actly 3 o'clock Premier Clemenceau called the ses- r sion to order at 3.10 o'clock. Chinese Refuse to Sign ( The Chinese delegates shortly before be-fore Ihe hour set for the sijmini.' of I tho treaty, reiterated their intention , not to sif;n. f Delegations sign in Order The other delegations headed by thelj British signed after the American; plenipol cnt iaries in the order set forth I in the treaty. j j The Germans who were th first to( i sign, did eo at 3 13 o'clock. The I; American delegates came next, led by j i President Wilson. The British follow- L ed the Americans L It also was signed by Dr. Herman' Mueller at 3 12 and Dr. Johannes Bell1; for the Germans at 3:13. The Amer-'j lean delegation signed in this order: Secretary Lansing, Henry White, Col- t onel House and General Bliss VERSAILLES, June 28 (By The 1 Associated Press ) Tho credential'! of t 1 t Herman Mueller and Dr. Johannes 1 Bell as plenipotentiaries sent here to sin the treaty of peace, were approved 1 this, morning. I Dr Herman Mueller, German minis- I ter of foreign affairs, and Dr Johannes : Bell, minister of colonies, who were -I named by tho German government as ! 1 pb'nipotenUaries to sign the treaty of p-ace here this afternoon, arrived j early today by automobile from St. t Cyr. hi The peace treaty was deposited on 1 r the table in the hall of mirrors at 2:10 c 0'clO4 k this afternoon by William Mar- ( tin of the French foreign office It t was enclosed in a stamped leather r case. i Premier Clemenceau entered the ; palace at 2:20 o'clock. t Germany's delegates and the dele-gates dele-gates of the allied and associated pow- r ire met in Versailles today to sign the reaty formally ending the war b-ween b-ween Germany and twenty-scn Oth-r Oth-r nations. The credentials of the new German ielegates were approved during the I 'orenoon, and everything way In readl i less at an early hour for the ceremony j et for 3 o'clock. Last Minute Changes. Last minute changes were ruadp In be program to expedite the signing )f the treaty. Two additional tables ; re placed beside the one within the' ilstoric hall of mirrors on which the' peace treaty was laid. One of the new ables held the Rhine convention and he other the protocol containing: manges in and interpretations of the reaty All these documents had to be igned by each plenipotentiary and the I irrangement of the tables thus enabled I hree persons to be engaged simultan lously in affixing their signatures Because of the size of the treat.;, md the fragile seals it bore, the plan o present it for signing by Premier 'lemenceau, President Wilson and 'remier Lloyd George seemed unlike-y unlike-y to be carried out. the new plan be-' ng for the three conference leaders to i ;tep to the table to affix their signa-! .ures Hours before the time set for the :eremony a seemingly endless stream )f automobiles began moving up ih , annon lined bill of the Champs' '! Bees, past the Arc de Tnomphe and -ui t h rjii ccli the Bois de Boulogne, csr-i ylng tti" plenipotentiaries, officials ind guests to the ceremony. Tho! horoughfare was kept clear by pick ts, dragoons and mounted gendarmes. ' VERSAILLES June 27. The cremonv of signing the treaty was shorter than expected as most of the 12 plenipotentiaries had to write their 1 lanies only twice, once on the treaty 1 ind once on the protocol containing 1 manges and interpretations of the larcnt instrument. The convention overlng the left bank of the Rhine ind the treaties regarding the protec- j ion oi minorities in Poland will be igned onl by tho delegates of the ! ;reat powers. Even the full number of 72 may not ' llgn the treaty, since the Chinese hae ' ndicated Chat they are opposed to rigning the instrument on account of ho Shantung settlement. According to the program of the tesslon, Lh'- treaty will be caried to! Premier Clemenceau, ITesident Wil-j ;on and Premier Lloyd George by Villiam Martin, official master of i eremonies. and altacho to the I-"Tench oreign office. It will then be rede re-de ed on the table to be signed by he other plenipotentiaries in the alph-ibetical alph-ibetical order of their countries, America signing first and Germany ast. Guard of Honor At the end of the court of honor in he chateau, a guard of honor was Irawn to present arms as the leading denlpolentiaries passed. This guard! lOmprlsed a company of Republican i luards In brilliant uniform. The en-j ranee for the delegates was by the narble stairway to the "Queen's' vparlments" and the hall of peace, I riving access thence to the hall of uirrors. The route to the peace table tor the ileuipotyotlarles was through a space I i reserved for some 400 privileged gUi its. It had been arranged that the delegations, instead of Btraggllng in without order, as when the original terms of peace were communicated to the Germans, should enter by groups each one being lormally announced by ushers from the French foreign office. This formality was not prescribed for the Germans, who were given a separate route of entry, coming through the park and gaining the marble mar-ble stairway through ihe ground floor. There was thus avoidance of occasion for the guard of honor to render them military honors, these being reserved for the allied represental l es. The dismounted guardsmen on the marble staircase and in the "Queen's apart ment" however, were instructed to remain re-main In their place for the entr oi the Germans. Within the hall of mirrors when Ihe historical furnishings and paintings paint-ings gave a tone of impressive state which would otherwise have been rather ra-ther lacking in the assemblage of so-1 so-1 berly attired men. Clemenciau Opens Session VERSAILLES, June 28 Premier I Clemenceau in opening the session said: "The session is open Tho allied rnd associated powers on one sid- and the German commission on the , . I . i side. hae come to an agreement on the conditions of peace, rhe text has i been completely drafted and Ihe pres-J ldent of the conference ha., stated in writing that the text that is about to, be -igned now Is identical with the, 200 copies that have been delivered to the German delegation. The signatures signa-tures will be ghen now and thej amount to a -olcmn undertaking faithfully faith-fully and loyally to execute the con ditions embodied b) this treaty of; peace. I now invite the delegates of; the German commission to sign the treaty." In the assemblage of soberly attired delegates, seventy-two chairs for the! plenipotentiaries were drawn up: around three sides of the table, which formed an open rectangle fully eighty ' feet in length on its longer side. A I chair for M. Clemenceau. president of I the peace conference, was placed In the center of the long table facing the windows with those for President Wilson Wil-son and Premier Lloyd George on the right and left hand respectively. The German delegates were assigned assign-ed seats at the side of the table near est the entrance which th. v could lake after all the others had been seated. VERSAILLES, June 2S. (By the Associated As-sociated Press) A box of old fashion- j ed goose quills, sharpen-d by the expert ex-pert pen pointer of the French foreign I office, was placed on each table for! the use of those peace plenipotentiaries plenipotentiar-ies who desired to observe the tradl tional formalities. Stipulations in Treaty PARIS, June 28 (Havas) In the, completed peace treaty signed today ai Versailles, the newspapers say, were! certain stipulations which, it was hoped, would hasten ratification of the' treaty by the Get man national assembly. assem-bly. The Journal says that the allies slip-' ulated that the liberation of German pribouers would be dependent upon ratification of the treaty by the Ger- man assembly. oo |