The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-05-07
|EATY GIVEN TO
UNS DOCUMENT
Of $4,000 WORDS
egateS Of 27 Nations At
end Notable Gathering
When Final Allied Terms
Are Made Known.
Is. WILSON WATCHES
DELIVERY OF DEMANDS
|'emOniaI Takes Place in
Hall of Trianon PaIaaGzs
ht Versailles With ]
beau Presiding Over S

AERSAILLES, Nay Z. (By the,
ed Press. )-Germany todav
the terms upon which IT,
associated powers wiz
ID her. These terms va s
treaty some S0,0OO woiA Sh
#ch was handed TO the German sai-
entiaries at a memorable ID
#e, attended by the delegates of III
nations which are parties to tie
#ce pact.
lois notable document, on which the
wing statesmen of the various ma
Ms, together with swarm of experts
IN the principal countries involved,
ne been working since the conysning
the peace conference on Jan. 18, is
oduced by an extensive preamble,
bodying the assertion of authority
$n which the treaty is based,
Immediately following is the first
#pter, the covenant of the league
nations, the text OF which already
Il been printed. OF the fourteen
Mncipal sections, one contains stipu-
ons with regard to the frontiers
ieh materially change the map of
POPE. Military naval and air terms
dealt with In another section,
lie still another il devoted to the
$ject Of reparations. Political stip-
#tions for Europe, on the one hand,
outside of 1t, OH the other, are
It with in separate divisions of the
&ument. @
he treaty, it4 is acted, has to do
IA Germany alone, except insofar as
&is required that she accept agree
&nts made by the allies, with the
Ter central powers. i
he document, long as it is, Is shortss
ecasts, wksch estimated its length
100000 words.
The treaty is not printed In Ger
|8n. The text is in French and ling
on opposite pages.
3ells Huns Doom.
he terms of the treaty spell the
u of Germany as a military power
ID is deprived of virtually all her fleet
army is cut down to nominal di-
|nsions and she Is sharply restricted
Xix to work militarily to rehahilitate
'self. Economically, also the future
|lrse of Germany Is hedged about
h stipulations intended to insure her
i lty to pay the indemnity demanded
the allies, but to prevent her from
h @bloiting her old time resources as
8Btrangling competitor of the nations
&but her which she overran and de-
2Etated during the war.
|rhuS, for instance, Germany for q
i Eiod Of years, at least. will be de-
Ived of the coal output of the rich
lar basin, which goes to France IL
payment of the damage caused b,
liz destruction Of the French Goa
.tscn iu n
Stke restitution for the damage II
her ways done to France, Belgium
III the various other countries whici
ffered from Teutonic depredations II
Eious forms. In numerous other ways
k is made to realize that her NOR
hn four years career OF destruction
pst be made good.
kllied representation at the ceremo
III today was made complete by thu
fival in Paris this morning of Wit
tio Orlando, the Italian premier. an,
Iron Sonnino, the foreign minister
ho, it had been feared for time
kuid not be present because of tn
hgle over the Adriatic question. TIL
bught 1t necessary that solid allie
jbnt be presented and their delegate
burned from Rome, despite the in
knplete state of the Adriatic negotia
gns, which, however, though the
Ight affect the settlement with Aus
a. Hungary, do not figure In peac
|th Germany.
frhe day likewise found the repre-
htatives of Japan aligned squared
(th the other powers. any complica
Ins that might have been threatene
|er the question of Kiao-Chau an
q wording of the league of nation
kenant having been smoothed over.
lrhe ceremonial of handing the treat
1.-THE Germans took place in the ha
the Trianon Palace hotel, a spacious
kll-lighted chamber, with tables TO
Il delegates arranged nearly In tn
Em of a square. 1t was presided owe
Georges Clemenceau. the Frenc
fmier, president Of the peace con
less, who sat at the center of tn
lad table. with President Wilson an
Eer American representatives on hi
Eht and David Lloyd George, tn
lieish premier, and his colleagues o
Il left. Mrs. Wilson was an intereste
Iectator of the function.