The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-10
APPLICATIONS EXCHANGED WITH
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{Cnntinued from Page One) 1 utes recording the exchange of rati. fcattons. l any ceremony, Premier Lloyd George 1 of Great Britain, following the Ger
 man delegates at the signature table
 He was succeeded by Premier Clemen- | ceau of France who, on returning to
 his seat after signing, stopped in front i of Baron Von Lersner and Herr Won l Sinlson. The German representa- i tfves arose and bowed to M. Clemen- 1 ceau, who said few words which ! were tnaudible to the spectators. The 1 premier then passed on to his place l without shaking hands. This incident was watched with the 1 most intense interest in dead si. 1 fence. It was noticed that Baron 1 Won Lersner made movement as if l to put out@fis hand, but seemed to 1 check himself as he saw that M i Clemenceau kept his gray=gloved i hands at his side. I Premier Nitti of Italy. Baron Mat l sui. the Japanese representative, and 1 Paul Hymans, the sBe1g gian foreign
 minister. followed Premier Clemen- 1 ceau in the order named. Then the l delegates of the other ratffying na- | tions signed in alphabetical sequence
 The entire ceremony was over at | 4:16 o'clock when M. CTemenceau l rose and said:
 1 ''The protocol having been signed, l as well the minutes recording the
 exchange of notifications, I have the
 honor to declare that the treaty of
 Versailles is in full effect and that i its terms will be executed integrally.' 1 The ceremony was characterized by formal politeness to the exclusion of
 all cordiality, excepting between the
 allied delegates. M. Clemenceau and MT. Lloyd George, sitting at the head of the table. chatted smi1lingly with Captain Andre Tard:eu, Louis Klotz and Georges Leygues of French del- i egation, throughout the proceed sga Baron Won Lersner was pale and grave and exchanged remarks in se
 rious tone with Herr Won Simson.
 At the end of M. Clemenceau's re- marks all the delegates rose and the Germans after slight hesitation led the way out without either saluting or ex- changing words with any of the other delegates
 The absence of American represeu-
 tatives particularly remarked. Up to
 the last hour Hugh c. Wallace, the American ambassador, was in doubt 1 as to whether he would receive in- structions to attend the ceremony.
 Finally, hearing nothing from Wash
 ington, he returned to the secretary
 of the peace conference the invitations
 that had been sent him.
 l Peaceful relations between Ger
 many and the great number of tho
 nations engaged in the great war
 with her are established by the ac-
 ton taken at Paris today. The peace treaty now goes into effect as be-
 tween Germany and those powers
 that have finally ratified it-Great
 Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Bel
 giun, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, IPeru, Poland, Siam, Czecho-Slovakia
 and Uruguay.
 Great Britain was the first of the
 five great powers represented in the
 supreme council of the peace confer , ence to take such action being fol.
 lowed in succession by France, Italy and Japan. The United States, alone of the "big fve,'' has not ratified the
 treaty. As the list shows, formal , notifications have been given by most , of the smaller powers signatory to the , treaty. China did not sign the doc- , ument, because of her objections to the Shantung provisions. but pro , claimed a state of peace with Ger
 many.
 The an-important ratification by , Germany was given July g, 1919, : the day following which President Wilsol presented the treaty to the , United States Senate.
 The making Of the peace which now
 becomes effective was begun shortly after the conclusion of the armistice of November il, 1918. which ended the great war. The treaty of Versailles
 as it had become known, was signed in the historic Versailles Palace on June 28 1919.
 . The long interval between the as-
 sembling of the peace conference at
 Versailles on January IS, 1918, and the
 signing of the treaty, was occupied
 with almost daily conferences on it's provisions between the representa- tives Of the nations which had been at } war with Germany or had broken re- lations with her, the principal parts 3 being taken by delegates of France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan and the l United States. The first important , work completed was the drawirg I'D | of the covenant of the League of Ma
 tions, which was finished on February
 IA. The German representatives were
 invited to Versailles during April, af-
 ter the draft of the terms of peace
 had been completed. They received the treaty on May T.
 l The treaty not only defines the s terms of peace with Germany but !. contains the League of Nations GOV enant and the provisions for the inter- I national labor organization. The docu- ment comprises fifteen parts, with numerous annexes It provided thai
 as soon as it had been ratified by Ger . many and three of the principal Al
 lied and associated powers a process
 verbal of the deposit of notifications
 should be drawn up, from the date o1
 which the treaty would come into . force as being the powers which hao ratified it. The treaty will enter into : force for each other power at the date ' of the deposit of it's ratification In October last, sufficient number 5 of powers had ratified the treaty te :. comply with the requirements for it's = effectiveness Because of the sinking o of the interned German Warships b9 = their officers and crews at Scaps . Flow, however, and the failure of the Germans to live up to some of the '