The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-06-28
|HUNSSIGN ALLIED TERMS
FOR CLOSING WORLD WAR
Ceremony AT Versailles at 1880 Clock, Wash
ihgton Time, Consumed Few Minutes.
Teutonic Delegates First to Attach Signatures
to Covenant of Peace.
CemenceauPn Direct Question to Germans as to Their
Willingness to Execute Loyalty All the Terms.
Chinese Absent Declining to Sign
Treaty Cannon Booms News

Washington, June 28.-(A. P.) Signing of
the peace treaty was begun at 1920 o'clock,
Washington time. The official report to the
state department said President Wilson signed
lat 3;14 O'Clock Paris time. Z, 5s. si,
Dr. Herbert Mueller and DR.. Johannes Bell
signed for Germany at 3: Is o'clock. s
All fetAinerican delegation had finished
jsigning at 3:15, Immediately after President
Wilson, the official report said.
The order of signing after President Wilson
was Lansing, White, House and Bliss.
SHUTS Signed Under Protest.
Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS, one of the dele
gates representing the Union of South Africa,
signed the treaty under protest. He objected to
certain territorial settlements, and made a
lengthy statement
Formally Ending Great War.
Versailles, June 2S.-(Ofcal Report Transmitted From
Hall of Mirrors State Department president Wilson
formally ending the world at m o'clock Paris time 1t also
signed by DR.. Hermann Mueller, pm and
Johannes Bell for the Germans, o'clock The
delegation signed this order Secretary lansing Henry White
Col. House and Gen. Bliss
The delegations by British signed
American plenpoentaries the order forth the treaty
put the direct question to the Germans
whether they willing sign and execute Loyalty all the
The other delegates did not arise when the Germans came
into the hall
The Germans who did at a:1a o'clock
The American delegates next led by President Wilson
an France Italy and Japan The representatives of the minor
signed alphabetical order Chnas delegates did not
attend the session. declining sign the treaty because they
notp permitted to make reservations.
Booming of Cannon Tells News
:44 began to boom, announcing the com
pon of the ceremony signing The signatures had not now"
ever as fact then been completed tor at hat tne
the smaller still signing alphabetical oroe Inc
proceedings were formally closed at $40 o'clock
Gen Smus ndemnites stipulated could not be ac
cepted without grave injuries the industrial revival of Europe
would be the interests of the allied powers to
rnder the stipulations tolerable and moderate.
protocol signed by all those who signed the treaty
arrangement signed by the Germans Americans
Bel gians, British and French penipoentiares
the plenipotentaries having signed the treaty. NJ
Cemenceau declared the closed (Ths dispatch was not
timed at Versailles received Washington at II 20 am
Premier Opened Session
Premier Clemenceau, in opening the session, said:
OPEN The allied and associated powers on
and reich the other SIDE have come to
agreement conditions of peace The treaty has been
completed drafted and the president of the conference has
stated in writing that the text that about to be signed now is
den a with the 200 copies that have been delivered to the Ger
delegation The signatures will be given and they
solemn undertaking faithfully and loyalty to execute
the conditions embodied by this treaty of invite the
delegates of the German reich to sign the treaty.