Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-28
.TEUT0N DELEGATES
. REACH VERSAILLES
. LATE FRIDAY NIGHT
DIR. Hermann Mueller and
DR.. Bell Selected to
Sign Document.
PRESIDENT WILL START
FOR AMERICA ON SUNDAY {
Expected to Give People His
Version of Conference in
Speeches.
CHINA REFUSES SIGNATURES
Refusal to Allow Nation to Make
reservations Concerning Shan
tung Given as Reason.
CHINA REFUSES SIGNATURES
rBy Associated Press.1

By Associated Press.1
PARIS. June 27.-Everything Is IN
readiness for tho signing Saturday T
afternoon by the Germans of the peace
treaty framed by the entente and as h
sociated powers.
DR.. Hermann Mueller. Foreign Min
lister in the new German Cabinet and
DR.. Bell. chief of the Colonial Office,
designated as Germany's signatories
to the momentous document. arrived
in Versailles late Friday night in or
der to carry out the promise of tha
Cabinet and the National Assembly, to
seal the compact.
That the Germans still are dissatisfied
with the terms of the treaty is indI-
Gated by reports that DR.. Mueller ana
DR.. Bell left Berlin for versnilloa
secretly, fearing attempts on their
lives
An eleventh. hour discordant note has
been struck by the Chinese delegatesE
who announce that they will not affix
their signatures to the treaty because.
China Will not he allowed Ito make
reservations concerning the Provinces
OF Shantung. lE,55'
Chinese Refuse to Sign.
! .si,Alnno,nIncement = by the Chinese peace
the peace treaty Is In line with IN
structions sent the delegation several.
we, weeks ago by the Chinese government.
sign the treaty unless some reservation
was permitted as to Japan's sover-R
eighty over the Shantung Peninsula,
der the treaty OF 1887 These IN
structions. 1t was learned today, have
never been. changed. and, accordingly,
the tn, AN announcement of the Chinese dele:
very. recently. however, 1t was CON-.
sidered possible that China might sign
the treaty; in view Of private lassur-
representatives that Japans tenure Nof
Shantung would not be long. China, 1T
also had been believed, probably would Z
Shantung question to be worked out
by the league Of nations s5ss,s
President to Sail Sunday.
PRESIDENT Wilson Is expected to sail
homeward hon on the steamer George
noon. Shortly after his arrival In the
United States. it is said, the President
VII make tour Of the country on be-
State Lansing will take the Presidents
pace In the peace councils Thus the
.hSr. treaty with .ha Austria will be completed
All arrangements for his departure
nave been completed, and the special
presIdential train Will leave the Care
1t VIII arrive at Brest on Sunday MORN
Ing, where the President will board
the steamship George Washington,
which sails about noon S-,-sszs3,
On his arrival In the United States.
President Wilson Will go straight to
WASHINGTON to lay before Congress-
the results of the peace conference.
Satisfied With Progress.
The President goes back to the 4
United States more than satisfied. his
friends say with the net results Of
the conference. and all things con-
siderod. It Is his opinion that the con-
ference has been q wonderful success.
While 1t Is regarded as disadvant-
ageous peace for Germany, yet against
this 1t is held that Germany committed
inevitably must make just reraration
for that wrong. fs,Efs
But outside Of German results. the
conference IS Viewed in presidential
never before had chance of liberty,
such as Poland. Jugo-Slavia and
Czecho,S Slovakia. Also the conference
is credited with banding together the x
people of the world to make the peace
regime enduring. Other large results. <
IL was pointed out, are the giving Of
tions on International intercourse and
many other international results
which can be summed up as "a colossal
business. such as the world never
Hopes for Treaty Ratification. u
nations covenant should be ratified
without amendment. according to the
presid view as 1t Is understood for
certain definite reasons, namely. that
II any one power seeks to make amend.g
ments. then the war will not be over
until every one OF the. twenty-one aa.
ISOLATED nations learns the results OF y
the amendments. This can onIy be 8
done through processes OF neEotis.-
tion. and it Is held that 1t would be
a hopeless process OF delay in restors.
Ing peace. 1t Is also held that tha
effect OF the amendments would be to
keep the United States out OF the
treaty and out of tho league OF na-SS
tions.
The question has arisen whether Z.
reservations amount to amendment.
and presidential quarters are under
stood to hold that reservations. aucft 81
as the proposed Root reservation to
Article Y. OF the covenant arc eaufya-
lent to amendment :. e s;
The length OF the peace conferences
Is regarded, II Is said, as benenciaIs y
on the whole. as the long discussion
brought about fuller understanding
among tho nations. There In speciat
pride In the fact that tho views Of
the American experts usually pEeya!I-sg sgs
ed. probably because the United Statsa s.
had no seifish interests Involved .ir, 4
the difficult questions settled. " dt is II;
also held that sinister influences piays s