Evening star., 1919-05-08

The indications are that .Presi-
dent Wilson will submit the
matter to Congress.
by the Associated Press.
VERSAILLES, May S.-The Ger
man delegates to the peace con-
Eress complained bitterly this
morning to one OF the French
liaisOn officers of the unexpected
harshness of the conditions of
peace.
The delegates said they had ex-
pected from the newspaper re-
ports that the demands In many re-
sDects would be far-reaching, but
were not prepared for the terms as
actually laid down In the printed
copy of the document.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, May s.-Intimations reach
ing the peace conference from Yer
sailles lead to the BELIEF that two or
three members of the German peace
delegation probably will return to
Germany to consult their government,
the others remaining at Versailles.
Germany has not yet submitted any
communication with regard to the
peace treaty.
All the exchanges between the dele
cation at Versailles and the home
government are being kept secret.
copy of the treaty is well on it's
way to Berlin. A German courier left
at 3 O'Clock last night bearing it with
Count Won Breckdorff- -Rantzau's first
report on the negotiations.
The council of four, with Premier
Orlando of Italy present, began to-
for = y,
presentation of peace terms to the
Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian
delegates
The Austrian treaty has begun to
take form. Portions of it already
have been drafted.
1t appears that instead of Germany
being required to pay the entire in
demnity demanded by the allies. a
considerable sum will be demanded of
Austria. the estimate of this sum at
present being 5,000.000,000 crowns.
Peace Congress Impressive.
VERSAILLES. May THE scene
at today's session of the peace con-
gress when the terms of the treaty
were presented to the German dele
gates was an impressive one. and
the function was not without it's
tense moments. Indeed. the entire
half hour which it took Count Won
Brockdorff-Rantz to deliver his re-
ply to Premier Clemenceau was
period of tenseness for President
Wilson. Premier Clemenceau and
Premier Lloyd George. and in fact for
virtually every one present.
The speech was translated sentence
by sentence by the German inter-
prefers, who did not fail to bring out
with full emphasis every sharp phrase
in it, and the three allied statesmen
put their heads together in evident
anger at more than one of the Ger
man spok esman's cutting utterances,
as If they were celebrating upon the
advisability of an immediate answer.
The program was unaltered, how
ever, and when the German pleni-
potentiary had finished Premier Glenn
enceau arose and put the customary
vations to make?" And when there
was no response. continued: Il then
declare the session closed"
Triumvirate in Discussion.
The allied triumvirate remained
after the German delegates had left
for a half-hour discussion of the new
situation.
The scene within the hall during
the ceremony had none of the pomp
and glitter of earlier peace confer
ences-no display of court and mill
tary uniforms, such as marked the
theatrical ceremonial. 1t seemed to
gain in fmpressiveness. however, by
these very circumstances.
At the head of the table the strik-
ing faces of Premiers Clemenceau and
Lloyd George and President Wilson
attracted every eye. Marshal Foch.
sitting with the French delegation at
the head of one of the side tables.
was another conspicuous figure. The
bearded faces of the Siberian states
man, NJ. Pachitch, and the Greek pre-
mier, NJ. Venizelos, as well as the
familiar head of Ignace Jan Paderew-
ski the Polish premier. also stood
out from the mass of delegates. The
impassive faces of the Japanese rep
resentatives. the oriental lineaments
of the Chinese, the brown counte-
nances of the Arabs from Hedjas, and
the presence even Of the two dele
gates from Siberia and Haiti gave evil
dence that this was really a world
congress.
Germans Not Nervous.
The Germans, who entered the
chamber with all the confidence of
trace of nervousness and acted as If
they were taking part in the delibera-
tions on equal terms with their ad-
versaries.
The ceremony, which attracted to
the hall crowd of correspondents
and officials, who began arriving at
an early hour, started at 2:2O o'clock,
when servants brought in huge arm
fuls of the printed conditions of peace
and distributed them, one copy to each
delegation, around the hollow rec
tangle. The Germans only were ex-
cepted, their copy being delivered to
them at 3:17 o'clock, during the trans
lation of Premier Clemenceau's speech.
At 2:25 o'clock Premier Clemenceau
CONTINUED on Second Page.)
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