The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-03
2lS GERMANS
in PEACE PARTY
Already Ensconced in ,Ver-
sailles - Others Coming.
Time Hangs Heavy.
POLICE WATCH TEuToNs
Flying Squad of Detectives
Ready to Round Up Any
Wandering Away.

Versailles, 1880 pm, May IA.
P.)--The German delegation to the
peace congress is rapidly assuming
a position of equality, in numbers at
least, with the delegations of the va
rious allied and associated powers.
Twenty more subordinates of the del
egation arrived in Versailles last eve
ming and this morning, travelin, on
regular trains under escort. Their
arrival brings the roster of the del
egation to total of 21s, while still
more arrivals are expected.
A brisk interchange of, telegrams
is in progress with Berlin, a courier
also leaving for the German capital
today with official and press dis
patches. Time is hanging rather
heavily on the hands of the greater
part OF the delegation, however, ow-
ing to the delay in the opening of
the actual peace negotiations.
The billiard tables in the hotels
occupied by the Germans are In con-
stant use and card games are fire.
quently In progress in the Newspaper
mems clubrooms and in a dozen other
places.
So far as is known. the only thing
on the program Tor the enemy pleni-
potentiaries until next weeks session,
at which the peace terms will be
handed over, is a further meeting of
the delegates with the credentials
committee of the peace conference
Sunday morning.
Girl stenosraphers Give Trouble.
The tendency of the German dele
CATIONS subordinates, particularly the
girl stenographers, to break bounds
has led Police Commissioner Oudailles
to instruct the police posted at the
three hotels to turn back any Teutons
found wandering off the reservation
and to form a flying squad of etec-
tiyes to round UP any of them dis
covered in Unauthorized parts of Ver-
saalles. The commissioner also has
issued a warning that any Ittempt
on their part to go to Paris to see
the sights will lead to their immediate
banfshfinenf to NJ. Reports that
some German Journalists have ac-
tually been In Paris, however. is de-
MED. II appears to9have originated
in boasts by some of the workers
that they intended. to make such
trip.
A survey Of the long roster Of the
German delegates reveals the pres
euce of a fourth German minister or
state, in addition to Count Won
Brockdorff- -Rantzau, Herr Landsberg
and Herr Geisberg, He is Minister
of Labor Schwartz, who Is found
among the thirty-three commission
ers sent by the various ministries and
the armistice commission to support
the principal delegates.
Also among these commissioners
are Uniersecretary Schroeder, or the
finance ministry; Herr Won Braun, OF
the food ministry; Richard merton,
"a member of the firm which controls
the worldwide German metals trust,
representing the ministry OF ecu
nomics, and Carl Legien, head OF tne
German trades union confederatlon'
representing the ministry of labor.
Had Clemenceau AR.
The first disturbance of the Or
der,y routine around German head
Quarters occurred this afternoon
when a procession of youths cheer
ing for Premier Clemenceau and car
ryfng placards reading "Vive la
France!" marched through the Rue
des Reservoirs, yelling loudly as tney
passed the Hotel des Reservoirs. Inc
delegation, however, had the appear
ance of seeking to make a pro -Clem-
enceau rather than an anti-German
demonstration. A.
Count Won Brockdorff- -Rantzau, the
head Of the delegation. who has not
Loh tnnly fha- air fnlS
afternoon in an automobile placed at
his disposal by the French govern
ment, He rode about for an hour IN
the environs of Versailles.
A group of newspapermen, of whom
there are twenty mine accredited 10
the German delegation, visited the
rooms of the Trianon, where the de-
,iberations are to be held, walking
through under the guidance OF
French officer to acquaint themselves
with the arrangements,