Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-24

will head the German delegation to
sign the peace treaty, In LiberJso
says. The Germans probably will ar
rive In Versailles wednesday morning.
VERSAILLES, Jane 24-Premier
Clemenceau, President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George visited the pail
ace this afternoon to inspect the ar
rangcments for the ceremony of sign-
ing the peace treaty.
PARIS, June 24-The supreme
blockade council met today To decide
on a date when the blockade Of Ger
many should be lifted. One element,
it Is understood, favors the day when
the treaty Is ratified, but IL Is believed
the Council probably Will decide to lift
the blockade with the signing Of tho
treaty.
By Associated ITess.
PARIS, June 24.-No word has been
received from Weimar relative to the
new German plenipotentiary at Ver-
sailles. The date of the ceremony or
signing the treaty has not as yet been
fixed, but the belief is gaining ground
that IL will occur Thursday or pos
sibly Friday.
Plans for the ceremony attending
the signature of the treaty were con-
sidered by the supreme council today.
III
! fayors making 1t as simple as is cons
! sistant with the nature of the event,
( and the original plans for the conclu-
! sion of THE second peace of Versali-
, les" have been materially modified at
| his suggestion.
The plenipotentiarie will be is
| on a raised stand in the center
vast hall OF nlir-y9srss L., tbs eh.
Versailles upon which will be instan-
al he frl IN xuE q W
, be signed. The program does not
contemplate any set addresses but 1t
Is believed possible that both Premier
Clemenceau and the leading German
delegates may make short speeches.
The delegations will come to the table
when called upon by Secretary Paul
Duasta to affix their signatures op-
posite the seals which will. prior to
the event be fixed to the instrument.
Act on Sinking of Fleet.
By Associated Press.
PARIS. June 24-The Council OF
Three has referred the question rela-
tive to the sinking of the German fleet
in Scapa Flow to a commission OF
experts which will determine whether
the armistice conditions were violated
Work on Austrian Treaty.
Work on the Austrian treaty was
resumed by the Council of Three to-
day Financial experts were called.
To Make Final Preparations.
Premier Clemenceau, president OF
the peace conference, will go to Ver-
sailles this morning to make final
preparations for the signing of the
, treaty with Germany.
I'VE have waited forty-nine years
| for this moment" exclaimed Premier
| Clemenceau, as he opened the fateful
dispatch announcing that Germany
would sign the treaty at the meeting
| of the Council of Three yesterday
| afternoon.
For forty-nine years." he contin-
| This reitre's dogma was that might
| German trooper) who has governed
| Germany, has menaced the world.
, Whether the man named was Bis
mark or William the Second, 1t was
| still the same retire of the middle
! ages, surrounded by soldiery and
drunk with pride.
This reitres' dogma was that might
is right, that a states only obligation
is its own interest, that treaties do
not exist when they clash with the in
terest OF a state and get rich by any
means We know from witnesses who
| were at the side of William the Sec
| ond, that when he learned of the
Sarajevo tragedy, he who posed as a
| keeper OF the peace cried:
"The hour has struck. Now we
shall see what en- army is"