Arizona republican., 1919-06-29

VERSAILLES. June 2S.-CBy the Associated Press) s)-World peace was signed and sealed in the historic hall of Mirrors at Versailles this afternoon, but under circumstances which some what dimmed the expectations of those who had worked and fought during long years of war and months of ne gotations for it's accomplishment.
 The absence of the Chinese dele gates, who at the last moment were unable to reconcile themselves to the Shantung settlement, and left the eastern empire outside the formal purviews of peace, struck the first dis cordant note in the assembly. A writ ten protest which General Jan Christ ian Shuts lodged with his signature was another disappointment to the makers of the treaty.
 But, bulking larger, was the attitude of Germany and the German pleni- potentiaries. which left them, as evil dent from the official program of the day and from the expression of M. Clemenceau still outside any formal reconciliation and made actual restor- ation to regular relations and inter course with the allied nations depend ent, not upon the signature of the 'preliminaries of peace" today, but upon ratification by the national as sembly.
 To M. Clemenceau's stern warning in his opening. remarks, that they would be expected, and held, to ob- serve the treaty provisions legally and completely the German delegates, through Dr. Haniel von Haimhausen, replied, after returning to the hotel, IAc treated on a different status after signing, than the allied representa- i lives. as shown by their separate exit ! before the general body of the confer ence they never would have signed.
 Sentiment One of Relief Under the circumstances. the gen. eral tone of sentiment in the historic sitting was one rather of relief at the uncontrovertible end of hostilities, than of complete and unalloyed satisfac- ton.
 The ceremony came to a dramatic close-in fact, it reached it's highest dramatic pitch-with the wildly enthu siastic reception of President Wilson NJ. Clemenceau and Mir. Lloyd George by the crowds outside the palace who ignored or disregarded the minor discords of the day They tore the three statesmen from their escorts and almost carried them bodily in theil progress through the chateau grounds to watch the playing of the fountains "a part of the program which ha( been planned as a dignified state processional of all the plenipotenti aries
 The ceremony otherwise had beer planned deliberately to be austere. be.
 
 ' almost five years, and the lack of i'm } pressiveness and picturesque color, o , which many spectators, who had ex } pected magnificent state pageant complained was a matter of design } was not a matter of design, merel, l omission. The actual ceremony wa far shorter than had been expected, il view of the number of signature which were to be appended to tn treaty. and the two accompanying con ventions, ending bare 49 minute , after the hour set for the opening. Tn proceedings were carried out withou surface incidents, since the German were silent and the Chinese refusa to sign was evident only by the vacan chairs The sole words to be recorde
 in the protocol of the conference wer NJ Clemenceau's short opening allo cution. with it's brief, stern warning [
 the Germans. and his equally ters phrases declaring the ceremony closed
 Germans Sign First The intervening three-quarters of a \ hour was marked by the scratching ( X big goose quills or modern steel pen which most of the delegates preferred and the steady procession of delegatio after delegation to the seats at tn I three tables within the enclosure , upon which the documents were place for signature.
 | Contrary to expectations the Ger y mans were called to sign first, and II t precedence was given M. Clemencea' President Wilson, or Mir. Lloyd Georg who in the peace treaty appear onl Il as members of the respective delega e tions and discard the dignities and re y responsibilities which during the negot ations were summed up in the phras = the big three"
 q The two German delegates aros c without a word at M. Clemenceau . bidding. and placed upon the treat 2 the sign manuals which German gov ernment leaders declared, until recen
 ly. never would be appended to it. 'e was too distant to watch, even wit 'A glasses, the expression on the faces
 the German plenipotentiaries durir the ceremony, but more fortunate o| U servers among the officials say tn H. they fulfilled their roles without al y parent indications of emotion such e marked von Brockdorff- -Rantzau
 dramatic declarations at the fir
 meeting.
 When they regained their seats aft
 signing, President Wilson immediate
 arose and followed by the oth .o American plenipotentiaries, nov D around the two sides of the gre st horseshoe to the signature tab Ia President Wilson and not NJ. Clemel ceau, thus had the honor of signil g first, of all the leaders of the wor ,e alliance, but the honor was due to t ,e alphabet. not other considerations, te which the signatures occur in the san l. French alphabetical order as the en
 meration of the allied and associat te powers, in the prologue of the Urea
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