The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-27
NATIONS SIGN
Agreement To
OUTLAW WAR
World Powers Pledge Selves
Against Conflicts of
Aggression.
GERMANY'S NAME FIRST
Paris Gay With Flags of
Many Nations as Rites
Are Held.
GERMANY'S NAME FRS
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press staff Correspondent

PARIS, Aug. 27.-Representatives
of world powers agreed to renounce
war today.
At simple ceremony, solemn and
busjness-like, foreign ministers and
delegates of fifteen nations affixed
their names to document which
pledges them against wars of ag-
gresSion and denounceS war as a
national policy.
most of the other signatory ma
tionS in the World War, signed the
historic document first.
AS Gustav Stresemann, German
foreign minister, arose from his
place at the horseshoe table and ad-
vanced to sign the document,
cameras clicked under powerful
flood lights, and the combination of
photograph and photography rec
orded the ceremony for the eyes and
ears of the whole world.
The signing took place in the
great clock room of the French for
eign Office, the Quai D'Orsay, where
the Versailles treaty ending the
World War was negotiated.
The keynote was dignity and lack
of the lavish display which usually
is associated with such a gathering
of high international diplomats.
Paris Gay with Flags
Paris was gay with flags and the
colorS of the signing nations f1oated
over the Quai D'Orsay.
A great crowd gathered outside
and Prefect of Police Chiappe
ordered street traffic stopped. Fifty
Republican guards were held in
reserve to supplement the efforts
of $50 fcotguards and gendarmes in
keeping the crowds back.
Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of
state of the United States, who, with
Aristide BRAND, French foreign min
ister, conceived the treaty, came
half an hour early. He was ac-
companied by Mrs. kellogg and
Myron T. Herrick, United States
ambassador to France. The crowd
broke into prolonged cheering and
kellogg was obliged to stand hat
less, smiling and bowling. for four
minutes while he acknowledged the
demonstration.
Brands address of welcome con-
tanned glowing praise for kellogg
and a warm and diplomatic well
come to Germany.
The fifteen men representing their
various nations struck boldly at any
further attempts at armed differ
ences by agreeing to this pact, the
first two paragraphs of which read:
Article 1. The high contracting
parties solemnly declare in the name
of their respective peoples that they
condemn recourse to war for the
solution of international contro-
versies, and renounce it as an in
strument of national policy in their
relations with one another.
Art. 2. The high contracting par
ties agree that the settlement or
solution of all disputes or conflicts
of whatever nature or of whatever
origin they may be, which may arise
among them, shall never be sought
except by pacific means.
Signers of Treaty
The signers of this treaty are
Germany, Dr. Gustav Stresemann,
foreign minister; United States,
Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of
State; Belgium, Paul Hymans,. min
lister of foreign affairs; France, Ar
istide BRAND, minister of foreign
affairs; Great Britain, Lord Cushen-
dun. acting secretary of State for
foreign affairs; Canada, Premier
William Lyan Mackenzie King;
Australia, Senator Alexander John
McLachlen, a member of the execu-
tive council; New Zealand, Sir G. P.
Parr, high commissioner for New
Zealand in England; South Africa,
Hon. JacobuS Stephenus Smit, high
commissioner for South Africa in
England; Ireland, Patrick Macgil-
'ligan, foreign secretary of the Irish
Free State; Italy, Count Gaetano
Manzoni, ambassador to France;
Japan, Count Uchida; Poland, A.
zaleski, the minister of foreign af-