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Show DRAMATIC SCENE 1 AT VERSAILLES PEACE MEETING i j I German Reply to Clemenceau Brings Period of , ! Extreme Tenseness to Wilson, Premiers Lloyd ; George, Clemenceau and Everyone Present Three Statesmen Angered by Sharp Utterances Ut-terances of German Spokesman. VERSAILLES, Wednesday, May 7. (By the Associated I Press). The German delegates were the first to leave Trianon Trian-on palace after the meeting today. Before their appearance. the military guard had been withdrawn so as to avoid any semblance of military honor. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau and Herr Landsberg came out first and the whole part' was speedily shown into automobiles, which left immediately under j a British and French escort and moved through crowded F streets, the absolute silence of which was oppressive. The Germans were conspicuously undiplomatic in the;r appearance and they suggested, rather, a party of travel stained tourists as they entered their motor cars. PARIS, May 8. Germany has not yet submitted any I communication with regard to the peace treaty. All the exchanges between the delegation at Versailles t and the home government are being kept secret, A copy of the treaty is well on its way to Berlin. A German Ger-man courier left at 9 o'clock last night bearing it with Count Brockdorff-Rantzau's first report on the negotiations. VERS ULLE?, V. ,;nesJ . M. j 1 RThr. rrrnf at todaC- sts-ion of the Ipcace congress when the temiB Of th I treaty were printed to the German I delegates w;t- ;m iranrr-s.-.-i on. and I the function was not without its tense I moments Indeed, the entlr half hour V "irhlch it took ( ouiii von Bro 1 i oi t Kantzsu to deliver, hi i replj o Prem- ier Clorjcnr .,! was ;( ), rind o n -fiie.e for President Wilson, Premici Clemenceau and Premier Lloyd George land in fact for irtiialiy everyone pre-; I ent. The 5poch Tva translated l ntence i by sentence iv. the German interpret-f interpret-f er.. who did not fail to brine out with i full emphasis eer sharp phra in it laud the three allied statesmen put j k their heads together in evident anger at more than on' of the German I ; spokesman's cutting utterances as If I they were deliberating upon the advisability ad-visability of an immediate answer Program Not Altered. j The program .was unaltered, how-Fever, how-Fever, and when the German plenipo-i plenipo-i tentiary had finished Premier Clem ; enceau arose and put lh- CUSloi : phrase: "lias anyone further observations observa-tions 10 make?" and when there was k no response, continued: 'I then d--f Clare the session i lo ;ed ' The allied triumvirate remained af-I af-I tor the German delegates had left, tor a half hour discussion of in i 1 v situation. . The scene within the hall during H the ceremony had none ..t Me pump c and glitter of earlier peace confer-1 t enccs no display of court and mltl-L mltl-L tan- uniforms such as marked th I congresses of Berlin and Vienna, no t theatrn-al cprcmoni.il It seemed to "ain in Impressiveness, however, b these very eircumstances. Conspicuous Characters. At the head of the table the striking strik-ing faces of Premi' i h m n- :iu arid ? Lloyd George and President Wilson at-ir.icted at-ir.icted every eye. Marshal Koch, slt-Ing slt-Ing wiUi the French delegation at the head of one oi the i ide tables, was another conspicuous figure The Warded faces of ihe Serbian s man. m. Pachltch. and the Greek f premier, M. Venizelos, as well as the ratnilinr head of Ignace Jan Paderew- ski, the Polish premier, also stood out a from the mass of delegates. The im-Ipftashe im-Ipftashe faces of the Japanese repre-l repre-l sentatives. the Oriental lineaments of he Chinese, the brown countenances "f 'he Arabs from Hedjaz, and the Presence even of the two delegates ( Irotn Liberia and Haiti gave evidence t 'hat this was rally a world congress Germans Act Like Victors. The Germans who entered thrt chamber cham-ber with all the confidence of victors i hore themselves without p trace Ol f nervousness and acted nr. If ttv. were It taking part in the deliberations on equal terms with their adversaries. The ceremony, which attracted to the hail b crowd of correspondent! and oftirials who began arriving at an early hour, started at 2:20 o'clock when servants brought in huge ami fuls of the printed conditions of peaeo and distributed them, one copy :o each delegation, around the hollow rectangle. The Germans onlv were excepted, their copy being delivered to them at 3 17 o'clock, during the 'translation of Premier Clemenceau's speech. President Wilson Arrives. At 2.25 o'clock Premier Clemenceau and Stephen Pichon, the French for elgn minister, entered for a final survey sur-vey of the arrangements and then left to await the arrival of President Wilson. Secretary of State Lansing also appeared for an instant at 2-'.)" o'clock The minor delegates now were streaming into the room and virtually vir-tually all were assembled in their places when at 2:65 o'clock President Wilson, accompanied by other American Ameri-can delegates and premiers Clemen ccau and Lloyd George, entered together to-gether and moved informally to their places at the head of the table. Italians Shake Hands. Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Min-ister Sonnlno of Italy followed an Instant In-stant later. Both of them walked over to shake hands with President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau before seeking seek-ing their places. While the assemblage was seating itself. Premier Clemenceau and President Presi-dent Wilson engaged in an animated conversation. Premier Lloyd George and Arthur J. Balfour, the British for eign secretary, also Indulged in a chat. Premier Paderewski during this interlude inter-lude made a belated appearance. German Delegates Announced. After a five minutes' wait. Colonel Henry, the French liaison officer, ap-peared ap-peared in the chamber, heralding the approach of the German delegation. The Germans entered the door an Instant later, preceded by u funetion-ary funetion-ary of the French government wearing the glittering chain of his office, who unnounced in a loud voice: "Messieurs, the German delegates." There was tome little confusion among the Germans while Uiey were finding their proper places. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau. who entered, gloves in hand, took the center chair, with his five colleagues, and Dr. von Stockhamraer of the foreign office, flanking him on either hand. Five German secretaries and their Inter pr ters took their places at tables in .the rear. Session Declared Open. Premfer Clemenceau, as president of tho congress, then arose and de-clared de-clared the session opened, lie started start-ed immediately upon hie soeech. paus- ing to permit this to be translated into in-to English and German by French Interpreters. In-terpreters. The translation Into the German was decidedly faulty and halt- The premier then addressed the cior-r.-e.in nf.iin to explain the condi tions of the negotiation, telling theml that there would be no oral discussion; 'permitted and that they must submit, their observations in writing within fifteen davs The premier then read the headings or the treaty and made hie suggestion that the Germans within with-in a few days might be ready to commence com-mence the discussion of certain sections sec-tions of the treaty. When the premier concluded with 'the customary phrase, "has anyone observations to make,'' Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau raised his hand, but he was not recognized until the premier's remarks had been translated. translat-ed. Iiuiiii,.' the translation, Paul Dutasta, the general secretary of the assemblage assemb-lage proceeded almost unnoticed across the open space in the center of the i p, mcle and d posited a op) of t he peace treaty before the head of tho German delegation. 'Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau has the floor." Premier Clemenceau an- j nounced as soon as the translation had beeu finished The. head of the Gentian delegation did not iirise like Premier Clemenceau. I reading his speech sitting, but It wasi romarked by some that this apparent discourtesy to his adversaries may have" been dictated by his physical condition. After the first sentence of the count's speech had been delivered in German an interpreter began the i French translation. The words did not reach the head of the table distinctly dis-tinctly and Premier Clemenceau called Tor a louder utterance. He was equally equal-ly dissatisfied with the second attempt of the interpreter, and two of the German officials finally left their places with the German delegation and moved across to the head ol the table 1 to deliver the German plenipotentiai - i bold and frequently offensive message, sentence by Bentence, right into the fa (i nl Premiers Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau's gutteral German repeatedly rang out In strong emphasis on particular vigorous vig-orous phrases or words of his speech, as for instance when ho declared that j the admission by Germany of sole guilt I for the war would be "a lie" and when he forbade the Allies to speak of "cruelty "cru-elty and murder" in view of the sufferings suffer-ings and deaths of German civilians under the blockade and after the armistice. ar-mistice. The interpreter who gave tho English Eng-lish version mado the most of his op- ' portuuity, both in voice and selection of words, and the bold and unrepentant unrepent-ant declarations of tho German peace ! .it legates as thus brought out gave rise to a murmur of indignation in the j chambi r |