Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-06-26
ALLIED PEACE TREATY TO
Be SIGNED BY SATURDAY:
MAY issue AN UlTIMATuM
Lack of Official Advices Re-
gardin 6 Plenipotentiaries
Causes Uneasiness.
tBy the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press)
Paris, June 25.-The treaty of
peace will be signed either Friday
or Saturday, it is believed. Altho the
day ha snot been definitely fixed it
has been decided that the hour for
the ceremony will be at p. m. The
peace conference secretariate is still
| without knowledge of the personnel
of the new German peace delegation
and does not know when it will ar
| rive at Versailles.
This lack Of official advices from
Germany with regard to the new
| plenipotentiaries has caused uneasi-
ness in peace conference circles and
the plans for the signing pf tlhe
treaty are in state Of suspense.
Herr Haniel Won Haimhausen, the
acting German representative at Ver-
sailles apparently is also without in
formation.
May Issue Ultinatum.
Paris, June 25.-If the heads Of
the allied powers in Paris do not
hear from Weimar very soon regard
ing the German delegates for the
signing of the treaty an ultimatum
will be sent to the German govern
ment, according to the Paris office of
Rueter's Limited.
The ultimatum will demand the
appointment of a delegate within
certain number of hours.
NOtablcs to Attend.
Paris, June 24.-Notable among
those who will attend the ceremony
of the signing of the treaty with Ger
many will be five senators of the
campaign of 1870. Premier Glenn
enceau announced in. the senate to-
day that these men would be honor
ed with places at Versailles.
Marshal Petain accompanied by
six French generals, Mrs. Wilson and
her secretary and Miss Margaret Will
son will be among the thousand per-
sons including delegates and secre-
taries who will be present. Three
hundred journalists from the inter-
ested nations, few neutral newspa-
per correspondents, and about three
hundred guests apportioned among
the signatory nations will have places
in the hall.
Seven regiments of cavalry and
four regiments of infantry will guard
the palace grounds Within the mar
BILE court thru which all the witness
es 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 guards wearing silver
helmets, red coats and white breech-
es.
The Germans will be admitted at a
side entrance from the park after the
other delegations are seated at the
horseshoe table, within which will be
the signing table where the treaty
will lie.
Troops Threatened to Quit.
Berlin, June 25.-Accounts writ
ten for Berlin papers by correspond
ents at Weimar telling of events pre-
ceding the decision of the German
government to sign the peace treaty
show there was threat by the gen.
erals and officers of the volunteer
troops to quit if the treaty was sign
ed without reservations. Gustav
Noske, minister of defense, prohered
his resignation but later succeeded
in appeasing the officers. He then
withdrew his resignation under pres
sure from his party and cabinet min
listers.
Feeling among military men js
running high, Notwithstanding that
they are admonishing the troops to
continue in the service. Major Gem
,erai Baron Won Leuttwitz in q spe-
;cial caii reiterates his opposition 20
the terms while Major Won elisa.
Herr Noske's adjutant says that
Prussian Minister Reinart will en-
deayor to defend the menaced honor
of the army and the leaders by. the
adoption OF special measures. sS
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