Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-06-26
GERMAN DELEGATES
WILL SIGN LAST
Allies Will Affix Their Sigma
lures First to Peace Treaty on
Nomentous Occasion at YER
sailles Friday
ELABORATE CEREMONY
When the Mig Affair Is Over Entente
Party WIN Emerge on Terrace He
side Palace and the Grcnt Ncr-
saiiIcS Fountains viii Play

Paris June a. (bv the Associated
Press)--Unofficially Friday afternoon
has been set as the time for the ccre-
mony of signing the peace treaty OF
the allied and associated powers on
behalf of Germany.
While the German plenipotentiaries
have not vet been announced, ad-
vices received from Weimar are to the
effect that they will arrive in Yer
sailles FridaJ morning.
NJ Clemenceau will open the cere-
monies with brief introduction. No
speech Is expected from the Germans.
William Martin Of the French foreign
office as master Of ceremonies. will
then GARRY the treaty to President
Wilson and the premiers. who will
sign at their seats.
After the treaty is brought back
to the signature table, the names OF
the other delegates will he called, and
they will advance and sign. 1t is eX-
pected that the signing will require
two hours. The seals Of all the dele
gates Will be affixed in advance;
many Of them are already in the hands
of the French foreign office. Iresi-
dent Wilson is using the Presidents
seal. which Is All eagle, with the
words Seal of the Pre- sident of the
United States"
Some of the seals supplied by the dele
gates are merely monographs unadorned
In striking contrast to the elaborate coats
of arms supplied by Premier Paderewski
of Poland and other European officials.
The French treaty experts regard the
Chinese and Japanese seals as the most
artistic These are chiefly the names of
the delegates in Oriental letters, and are
adorned with flowers and quaint figures.
The expectation was that strictly per-
sonal seals would be used. but like Presi-
dent Wilson, NJ. Nandervelde, representing
Belgium, is using All official seal--the
Belgian coat of arms encircled by the
words minister Of justice"
The German delegates will sign after
the allies.
The order in which the allied delegates
will sign after the signatures Of the
president and premiers are attached, will
be according to the alphabetical order
of the names Of the countries they repre-
sent. When the signatures are completed
the entente party will emerge on the
terrace at the side of the palace, where
all the great fountains will be playing
In the gardens The Germans will leave
on the side where they entered,
Paris, June "a. (By the Associated
Press. 1.-The military government OF
Paris has ordered the commencement Of
legal proceedings against persons whose
names at present are not known in con
nection with alleged attacks on member:
of the German peace delegation as Coun
Won Brockdorff -Rantzau and the othe
Germans were departing from Versailles
for Weimar recently.
The Temps says an administrative in
vestigation has established that the af
fair was greatly exaggerated: that tn
offensive attitude of the Germans brough
the first demonstrations by the crowd
and that It is doubtful II stones wer
thrown at their carriages. 1t adds tina
it is certain no obstacles were place.
in the road leading to the railwa.
station.
Several persons present at the time o
the departure of the Germans from tn
station at Noisy-Le-Roi gave evidenc
that neither DR.. Theodore Melchoir no
Madame Dornbluth showed signs o
bruises
Paris, June "a. (By the Associate
Press).-The council to-day signed docu
ment giving formal approval to priorit
for Belgium in reparations to be paid b
Germany to the amount of $500. 900. OF
francs. The council also confirmed tn
plan to wipe out the Belgian war del
through the substitution Of German bond
for the Belgian obligations, the four gres
powers to take over the German bond
subject to the approval of their respe'
tive legislative bodies
The bonds the powers propose to tai
over are of special issue which tt
peace terms require Germany to max
to reimburse Belgium for all the sun
she was obliged to borrow In consequent
of the violation of the treaty of 1899.
The American delegation proposed son
time ago to give Belgium priority in II
reparations, and also approved the pla
for eliminating her war debt. but fin
decision was deferred until the treat
had been completed
Paris, June "a. (By the Associate
Press. 1.-The question of PREPARATIONS
still delaying completion of the Austria
treaty owing to the difficulty Of aligl
ing the small eastern states on any gel
eral scheme for division of the fnaI
ciel obligations and the claims resultir
from the breakup of the Hapsbui
monarchy. with consequent eliminate
of its responsibility for reparations,
American experts have conducted neg
tiations with representatives of the stat
inheriting parts of the Hapsburg d
mains, including Poland. Czecho- Slovakl
Jugo- Slavia and Roumania for sever
weeks, but the results have been unsati
factory to the Council OF Four, al
French experts are now trying their han
The problem is decidedly compicate
because. on the one hand. it is plann,
to charge these states with a share
the Austro-Hungaran financial respo
sibilties proportionate to the area al
resources of the IIapsburg territori
acquired by them, under the guise
contributions to the cost of the W
of liberation" while on the other han
Roumana and Serbia are entitled
offsets for reparation due them.
Poland and Czecho Slovakia are not e
titled to PREPARATIONS under the genei
principle of the Austrian and Germ
treaties, which limit reparations to I
actual belligerents during the war.
&c.