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Bellefonte, Pa., July 11, 1919.
TREATY OF PEACE SIGNED AT
VERSAILLES.
Signatories of Various Nations Af-
fixed to Important Document on
Saturday, June 28th.
Germany and the allied and associ-
ated powers signed the peace terms
at Versailles on Saturday afternoon,
June 28th, in the same imperial hall
where the Germans humbled the
French so ignominiously forty-eight
years ago.
This formally ended the world war,
which lasted just thirty-seven days
less than five years. June 26th, 1919,
the day of peace, is the fifth anniver-
sary of the murder of Archduke Fran-
cis Ferdinand at Serajavo.
The ceremony of signing the peace
terms was brief. Premier Clemen-
ceau called the session to order in the
hall of mirrors of the chateau of Ver-
sailles at 8:10 o’clock. The signing
began when Dr. Hermann Mueller and
Johannes Bell, the German signator-
ies, affixed their names. Herr Muel-
ler signed at 8:12 o'clock and Herr
Bell at 3:13 o'clock. President Wil-
son, first of the allied delegates. sign- |
At 3:45 o'clock |
ed a minute later.
the momentous session was concluded,
or just 199 days, 3 hours and 45 min-
utes after the last gun was fired at
the signing of the armistice.
All the diplomats and members of
their parties wore convention] civil-
ian clothes. There was a marked lack
of gold lace and pageantry. There
were few of the fanciful uniforms of
the middle ages, whose traditions and
practices are so sternly condemned in
the great, seal-covered document
signed June 28th.
As a contrast with the Franco-Ger-
man peace session of 1871, held in the
same hall, there were present griz-
zled French veterans of the Franco-
Prussian war. They replaced the
Prussian guardsmen of the previous
ceremony and the Frenchmen watch-
ed the ceremony with grim satisfac-
tion.
The conditions of 1871 were exact-
ly reversed. The disciples of Bis-
marck sat in the seats of the lowly,
while the white marble statue of Mi-
nerva, goddess of war, looked on
Overhead, on the frescoed ceiling,
were scenes from France’s ancient
wars.
Three incidents were emphasized by
the smoothness with which the cere-
mony was conducted. The first of
these was the failure of the Chinese
delegation to sign. The second was
the protest submitted by General Jan
Christian Smuts, who declared the
peace unsatisfactory. The third, un-
known to the general public, came
from the Germans.
When the program for the ceremo-
ny was shown to the German delega-
tion Herr von Haimhausen, of the
German delegation, went to Colonel
Henri, French liaison officer, and pro-
tested.
He said: “We cannot admit that
the German delegates should enter
the hall by a different door than the
entente delegates; nor that military
honors should be withheld. Had we
known there would be such arrange-
ments before the delegates would not
have come.”
After a conference with the French
foreign ministry it was decided, as a
compromise, to render military hon-
ors as the Germans left. Otherwise
the program was not changed.
Premier Clemenceau called the ses-
sion to order at 3:10 o'clock, and put
the direct question to the Germans
whether they were willing to sign and
execute loyally all the terms.
The Premier's formal remarks fol-
low:
«The session is open. The allied
and associated powers on one side and
the German reich on the other side
have come to an agreement on the
conditions of peace. The text has
been completed, drafted and the pres-
ident of the conference has stated in
writing that the text as about to be
signed now is identical with the 200
copies that have been delivered to the
German delegation. :
“The signatures will be given now
and they amount to a solemn under-
taking faithfully and loyally to exe-
cute the conditions embodied by this
treaty of peace. I now invite the del-
egates of the German reich to sign
the treaty.”
The signing was
by the Germans, followed by
Americans and British.
Farm Brings $1,000,000.
For the first time in its history a
Nebraska wheat and corn farm has
sold for $1,000,000. The transaction
involved a 4320-acre tract that has
been under cultivation, 17 miles from
Lincoln, for over 45 years, situated
upon the main line of a railroad. It
was bought by Woods Bros., of Lin-
coln. They now operate the largest
grain farm in the State in the terri-
tory” north of Omaha. It is a 5600-
acre tract that Nelson Morris, the
packer, used for years for grazing
cattle on. The Wood Bros. put in a
$40,000 drainage system, and made
it worth $200 an acre. They now
operate 23,000 acres of farm land, in
addition to several large cattle and
horse ranches.
The tract near Lincoln covers parts
of two counties, and has been a part
of the estate of C. E. Perkins,
wealthy Boston man, who was presi-
dent of the Burlington Railroad for
a number of years previous to his
begun promptly
the
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years, the first buyer paying $190 an
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a quarter of a century. It sold within
a few months for $210, and three
months afterward went back into the
hands of the first buyer, who paid
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