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Show SCENES AT THE Germans Not to Be Ac-! cepted Even After the Great Event, VERSAILLES. Friday, June 28 I The treaty of peace with Germany will be signed at 3 o'clock this afternoon1 in the historical hall of mirrors under the watchful eyes of forty five stal-war! stal-war! American doughboys, French j poilus and British Tommies, the real "artisans of the peace' which has been ' I slowly taking definite form during the long months of the Paris conference. Marshals and generals of the allied armies will take the First places on the benches provided for privileged guests invited to the ceremony, but the fif-j teen privates from each of the principal princi-pal armies will Maud within tin enclosure en-closure reserved for the plenipoten tiaries aud high officials of the tonter-( ence as the visible sign of their role in bringing into beng a new Europe. The solders will stand in tho embrasures em-brasures of the windows overlooking the Chateau park a few f.'et from their commander-in-chief, Marshal Foch, who will be seated with the French delegation at the peace table. A second change in the program has be, n introduced as a result of the atti-1 tude'taken by the German government I press and public toward the execution ', and binding validity of the treaty Tin-German Tin-German plenipotentiaries, instead of being regarded from the moment of signature as representatives of a formerly for-merly friendly power with which dip-lomatlc dip-lomatlc relations had been renewed, will leave the hall after the signature separately by the door through which they entered, not joining the general , procession of delegates to the terrace of the chateau to watch the playing of ' the preat fountain ot Versailles. For them peace will be regarded as concluded con-cluded from the moment of German ratification since the German government govern-ment has announced that it will sign the treaty only under protest and German Ger-man political leaders have declared their intention to work to undermine i the provisions of tie treaty. |