6ERMANY HAS RATIFIED TREATY
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VERSAILLES. .June 28—Tl.e Gormans have signed the peace treaty. Tin
: .ir» p. ni., Paris time and the dual ratification by the Allied lyeaee dab-gate?
BOOMING CANNON ANNOUNCE COMPLETION OF WORLD Pf ACE PAC1
VERSAILLES, June 28—The deep booming or cannon from tlie* fort.*
surrounding Paris at three forty this afternoon announced to the world that
the final act of the great war which lias cost the world over forty million lives
Watched by a large concourse <»t people gathered before the hend
«ii:nrteih of the German peace delegation, the German peace plenipotentiaries,
Foreign Minister Meuller alid Colonial Minister Bed. arrived In the auto
mobile which had carried them the greater part <.r the way from the German
border and spent the greater part of the morning getting their credentials
Tlu* Hermans appeared to he desirous of getting tho IVtisiness ovei
The ratification of the treaty took place in the great HTill of Mirrors
meeting. As was the ease at the presentation of the peace treaty to the
—- the strictly military representatives attached to the various peace delegations
The Allied peace representatives assembled before the table on wliiel
the treaty was signed nearly an half hour before the Germans a*|ipeared
William Mafllin of the French Foreign Otflce deposited the treaty on the tal.l.
aspect as it. reposed on the polished surface. A few minutes before three
o’clock the Allied delegates filed into tlu* glittering hall and took their seat
before the table*. A few minutes afterward tlu* witnesses broke into spon
taneous cheering as fifteen enlisted men from tlu* French, British and Ameri’
can armies entered the lutll. The crowd of notables immediately recognize,
•n these moif^the real makers of peace and Cheered for several minutes aft.-i
they had taken their assigned stations near the treaty board.
The German delegates entered the* hall at precisely three o'clock am
At three fifteen Foreign Minister Meuller took up the pen and allixe.
his signature on helialf of the German government. Colonial Minister Bel
took the pen from his hand and added his own name. The Allied represen
President \yisnn was the first to append liis name to the historic document an.
fifteen. The representatives of England, France, Italy, Japan and the remain
mg associated powers one by one placed their names on the treaty. Chin:
j'Snco their names oh the treaty. At 3:*39 the last signature was attached an.
a miputo later the guns of the distant fprts were roaring to tlu* world it
A total.of seventy two signatures were placed on the document wliiel
refusing to sign Vie treaty because they were not given a reservation by t li
Peace Conference regarding Shantung, also failed to attend the ratification.
General Smuts, representing the South African Union signed tli
treaty under protest owing to certain objections regarding territorial settle
. ments in which the South African Union is interested.
While the signing of the treaty was in ^ogress an immense crow
tJ:o cannon commenced to boom,out the glad nows that the war was officiall
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Treaty Signing Ends Slate of War but Musi he Ratified by Approval of tin
WASHINGTON, June 28 State Department otilclals say the signiiu!
of the peace treaty formally ends tire war in a technical sense hut the actual
termination of the great struggle will come t.. each nation only when tin
ratifying powers of the nation approve tho treaty The parliaments anr
ratifying tho treaty provisions. Not until this in done will the long enduring
state of war be actually ended.
t Germany now enters tho long period of years which will be required
The Allies are still tochnieaJly at war with Austria. P.ulgaria and
Turkey. The latest advices, from Paris indicate that the treaties with those
nations have not been completed.
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President Wilson’s eabll-d address to the An,- it . peopl
WILSON LEAVES PARIS FOR HOME TONIGHT.
WASHINGTON .lime 2S—In a -aide mess. . , i . Seer.-ta.v : div.
A committee of Washington citizen is planning to wel,..m. -I.
dent when ho arrives at New York.
WILSON APPEALS
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SUPPORT TREATY
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that the Cci-mans had signed.
m the world. ..s they end the intolerable order of human affairs under whieh
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