Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-05-09
SCENES AT PEACE
 CONGRESS ARE IMPRESSIONS
Wilson, Clemenceau a n q Lloyd George Incensed
 at Bitterness of Hun.

treaty were presented to the German delegates, was ar impressive one, and 1 the function was not without it's tense moments.
 Indeed the entire half hour which it took Count von Brockdorff- Rantzau
 to deliver his reply to Premier Clem-
 President Wilson, Premier Clemen- ccau and Premier Lloyd George, and in fact for virtually every one pres ent.
 The speech was translated senten- ce by sentence by the German inter-
 preters, 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 German spokesmen's cutting ut terances, as if they were deliberat- ing upon advisability of an imme- diate answer.
 The program was unaltered, how ever, and when the German plenipo- tentiary had finished Premier Clem- enceau arose and put the customary phrase: "Has any one further obser- vations to make? And where there was no response, continued, '1 then declare the session closed" The allied triumvirate remained after the German delegates had left
 Cor half hour discussion of the new situation.
 l Scene Not Spectacular. The scene within the hall during
 the ceremony had none of the pomp
 and glitter or earlier peace confer
 ences-no display of court and mili- tary uniforms such as marked the
 congresses of Berlin and Vienna, no theatrical ceremonial. It seemed to
 gain in impressiveness, however, by
 these very circumstances. | At the head of the table the strik-
 ing faces of Premiers Clemenceau
 and Lloyd George and President Will
 son attracted every eye. Marshal
 Foch sitting with the French delega- tion at the head of one of the side
 tables was another conspicuous fig
 ure. The bearded faces of the Ser
 bian statesmen P. Pachitch, and the
 Greek premier, M. Venizelos, as well
 as the familiar head of Ignance Jan
 Paderewski, the Polish premier, also
 stood out from the mass of delegates.
 The impressive faces of the Japanese
 representatives, the Oriental lnea-
 tenances of the Arabs from Hedjaz,
 and the presence even of the two dele
 dates from Liberia and Haiti gave
 evidence that this was really world congress.
 The Germans who entered the chamber with all the confidence of victors bore themselves without a trace of nervousness and acted as if they were taking part in the delibera- l tions on equal terms with their ad- Iversaries.
 Opened at 2:3O O'clock. The ceremony which attracted to the hall a 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 distributed them. one copy to each delegation. around the hollow rectan- gle. The Germans only were except ed, their copy being delivered to l them at 3:l7 o'clock during the trans
 lation of Premier Clemenceau's speech. When Premier Orlando and Foreign
 Minister Sonnino of Italy entered they immediately walked over to shake hands with President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau before seek ing their places.
 Premier Clemenceau, as president of the conpresS arosa and doclarAd the session opened. He started imme- diately upon his opening speech, pausing to permit this to be translat- ed into English and German by French interpreters. The translation into the German was decidedly faul- ty and halting. The premier then ad- dressed the Germans again to explain the conditions of the negotiations, telling that there will be no oral dis cussion permitted and that they must submit their observations in writing within 15 days.
 Premier Rad Headings.
 The premier then read the head ings of the treaty and made his sug- gestion that the Germans within few days might be ready to commence the discussion of certain sections of the treaty.
 When the premier concluded with the customary phrase, "has any one observations to make" Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau raised his hand, but he was not recognized until the premier's remarks had been trans lated. ..p ~'
 During the translation. Paul Du- tasta. the general secretary of the assemblage proceeded almost unno- ticed across the open space in the cen ter of the rectangle and deposited a copy of the peace treaty before the head of the German delegation.
 Count von BrOckdorffRantzau has the floor" said Premier Clemenceau, as soon as the translation had been finished
 The head of the German delegation did not arise like Premier Clemen- ceau, reading his speech sitting, but it was remarked by some that this apparently discourtesy to his adver-