Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-25
NO MARTIAL ARRAY
AT TREATY SIGNING
Simplicity to Be Keynote of
Epoch-Making Ceremony
Ending War.
CONSIDERATION FOR FOE
Suggestion of Humiliation Will
Be Removed as Far as
Possible.
II, WARWICK THOMPSON.

PARIS. June 2i.-The pomp and dis
play o: historic treaty signings in the
past, with their martial arrays and
vivid coloringS. will bo noticcably abb
sent when Germany afiixes her sigma
turc 20 the worlds most famous docu-
ment-probably Friday
Simplicity will be the keynote for
the epoch making ceremony. Every
thing possible has been and will De
done TO eliminate all suggestions or
humiliation. and the German delegates
viii be treated as representatives OF
Il republican Germany, not of the en-
war.
The general conduct OF the historic
hai i ot mirrors will be guided by the
idea that "A new order shall henccrortI,
prevail in the world. and the moment
Germany signs she ceases being an
enemy and once more enters the com
ue to be duo ef cbisa nsii9ns It Is understood
influence that the utmost simplicity
sna be observed. and that all toucnes
oi huniliation avoided.
Arrangements Completed.
Practically all arrangements for tho
ceremony were completed today When
the big three" made a pcrsonai IN
spGction Of the Versailles Palace where
naSteninE the finishing touches.
The exact date of the signing stil,
aepends on the arrival OF the German
delegates. but the general opinion hare
tonight was that it will not take MA sce
before Saturday
ihree hundred newspaper men will,
ST. c,2se to the great horseshoe table
dt Which the treaty will be signed
The chairs in which the deiegates O.
1ne leading allied powers will sit ara
w1naeri4iiy s,,r carved with the coats of
worked into the wood presideni VIZ
son chair bears, instead OF his per
E'lnao sIt,ai sea-. that Of the United States
snip mark the chairs of the Chinesa
and Japanese plcnipotentiaries.
Clemenceau VIII Sign First.
me master Of ceremonies will open
.ne event by taking the treaty to Pre-
unen hand II TO Premier Lloyd George
whereupon the document will mako r. !,
rounds Ts I, OF the allied powers, probably
IN alphabetical order. with the Ger.
mans the last to sign
seven regiments OF French cavalry
sra5Te vii pTesGrSe aly order on the palace park
are TO be stationed in the courtyards
the famous Republican Guard viii he
inSide Of the palace. French military
only music. TIC
The stately hall OF mirrors In Yer
sailies Paiace, where the Germans are
NAL acknowledgement of their defeat.
Will stage very different scene than
was enacted in the same hall on Janu
ary IS, 1871, when King Wilhelm I. OF
Prussia was crowned Emperor of Ger
many. Then France. beaten to her
knees. was forced to look on in chagrin
and humiliation while Prussia Haunted
her power in one of her beaten foes
most highly priced and beautiful build
inEs.
Scene Shifts After Forty-EiEht Years.
BY an irony of fate the scene has
shifted. France. triumphant through
In ~ 1f,tg1
as the place wherein Germany must
humble herself through her accredit cd
representatives the very hall whose
many mirrors coldly reflected the pomu
and splendor of n foreign Emperor's
crowninE forty-eight years ago.
Could these glittering mirrors but
years the scenes they have witnessed,
lCOniinucd ON SECOND Pare !