The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-25
CEREMONIES AT
PEACE TABLE !.
TO BE SIMPLE
Ten Thousand to See German
Officials Sign Treaty
Which Ends War
NAY SIGN PACT FRIDAY
All Soldiers Within Palace Will
Be Members of Repub-
lican Guard

Paris, June 25.-The treaty of
peace will be signed either Friday or
Saturday, 1t is believed. Although the
day has not been definitely fixed, it
has been decided that the hour for
the ceremony will be p. m. The
peace conference secretariat is still
without knowledge Of the personnel
of the new German peace delegation
and does not know. when 1t will ar
rive at Versailles.
Without Information.
This lack of official advices from
Germany with regard to the new
plenipOtentiary has caused uneasiness
In conference circles Herr Haniel
Won Haimhausen, the acting German
representative at Versailles, appar-
emily is also without information.
Notable among those who will at
tend the ceremony of the signing of
the, treaty with Germany will be five
senators who participated in the com.
mand of .. 1870, Premier Clemenceau
announced in the senate today that
these men would be hOnored with
places at Versailles. Marshal Petain,
accompanied by six French generals;
Mrs. Wilson and her secretary and
Miss Margaret Wilson will be among
the ten thousand persons present
Three hundred journalists from all in
terested nations, few newspaper
representatives of neutral countries
and 200 invited guests from the coun-
tries involved will be present.
Ceremonies to Be Simple. r =
Within the marble court through
which all the witnesses except the
Germans will pass will be stationed
a company of drummers and buglers.
No other musicians will participate.
All the soldiers within the palace will
be- members of the republican guard.
The Germans will be admitted at
side entrance from the park, after
the other delegations are seated at
the horseshoe table within which will
he the signing table, where the treaty
will lie. ... -.
-: 49,, i TO SEND uLTIMATUM.
Paris, June 25.--If the heads Of the
allied powers in Paris do not hear.
from fWeimar very soon regarding
the German delegation for the sign,
ing of the peace treaty an ultimatum
will be sent the German government,
according to the Paris office of Reu-
ters.
The ultimatum will demand the ap-
p0intment Of plenipotentiaries within
a certain number of hours.
ARMY LEADERS INsUReE.
Berlin, Tuesday, June 24.-Ac-
counts written for Berlin papers by
correspondents at Weimar telling of
events preceding the decision of the
German government to sign :he
peace treaty show there was a threat
of officers and members OF the VOL
unteer army to quit II the treaty was
signed without reservations. Gustav
Nofske, minister of defense, rendered
his resignation, but later gu ceeded IN
appeasing the army, and withdrew
his resignation.
Feeling among military men runs
high, not withstanding the fact they
are urging the men to remain in the
service. Baron Won Luetwichm, III
d SpcCldl Call, FclLcrdtoS ul6 UppOSf
tion to the peace treaty.
FOOD RIOTS.
Copenhagen, June 24-Serious riot
ing occurred at Hamburg Monday and
Tuesday when mobs attacked food
preserving factories, it being alleged
that the bodies OF dogs and cats had
been found in them. The managers
were dragged into the streets and
roughly handled.
The mob tried to disarm troops
marching through the streets, and
the latter opened fire, number Of
persons being killed and wounded.
OCCUPY PETRoGRAD.
Helsingfors, Tuesday, June pa
Russian volunteer white guards have
occupied Peterhof, Is miles from
Petrograd, according to report re-
ceived here.
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