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* if (Tlir llatithmi ISimtUi j ?2 00 Per Year in Advance BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 3,1919. Established in 1891 * PDACE TREATY WAS * SIGNED SATURDAY W HISTORY MAKING CEREMONY OCCUPIES LITTLE TIME. Chinese Refuse to Sign sF"? German National Assembly Must V*1- '' Ratify Document to Start Process of Recovery. Versailles, June 28.?World peace ^ was signed and sealed in the historic hall of mirrors at Versailles this afternoon, but under circumstances which somewhat dimmed the expectations of those who had worked and fought during long years of war and months of negotiations for its achiev||;' ment. The absence of the Chinese dele... gates, who at the last momem, weici unable to reconcile themselves to the Shantung settlement and left the eastern empire outside the formal purview of peace, struck the first .discordant note in the assembly. A written protest which Gen. Jan Christian Smut lodged with his signature was another disappointment to the makers of the treaty. r?. > But, bulking larger was the attijjP v tude of Germany and the German .^plenipotentiaries, which left them, as evident from the official programme of the day and from the expression of M. Clemenceau, still outf aide any formal reconciliation and made actual restoration to regular \ ' relations and intercourse with the allied nations dependent, not upon the signature of "preliminaries of peace" today but upon ratification by the national assembly. To M. Clemenceau's stern warning V ' In his opening remarks that they would be expected, and held, too, to % ; serve the treaty provisions legally stnd completely, the German dele gates, througn ur. namei vuu iiairn- I hausen, replied after returning to! the hotel that had they known they would be treated on a different status after signing than the allied represenf?m tatives, as shown by their separate exit before the general body of the conference, they never would have r 8lgned. I jfe: ' :. Under the circumstances the gen_ ';.>* ' eral tone of sentiment in the historic sitting was one rather of relief at the uncontrovertible end of hostilities than of complete and unalloyed I & satisfaction. I dmmm The ceremony came to a dramatic close in fact, reached its highest dramatic pitch?with the wild enthusi-1 ) astic reception of President Wilson,! M. Clemenceau and Mr. Lloyd I George by the crowds outside the palace, who ignored or disregarded the minor discords of the day. They tore the three statesmen from their I >* escorts and almost carried them boldly in their progress through the chateau grounds, to watch the playing of the fountains a part of the programme which had been planned as a dignified state processional of all the plenipotentiaries. At Historic Versailles. ! Germany and the allied and asso-1 dated powers signed the peace terms here today in the same imperial hall where the Germans humbled the French so ignominiouslv 48 years ago. f This formally ended the world war which lasted just 73 days less than I five years. Today, the day of peace, is the fifth anniversary of the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdnand at Sarajevo. I The ceremony of signing the peace terms was brief. Premier I Clemenceau called the session to or-1 der in the hall of mirrors of the chateau of Versailles at 3:10 o'clock. The signing began when Dr. Her OBC< _ I mann Mueller and Johannes Bell, the r; I German signatories, affixed their names. Herr Mueller signed at 3:12 o'clock and Herr Bell at 3:13 o'clock. President Wilson, first of the allies' delegates, signed a minute later. At ^0 3:45 o'clock, the momentous docu-| ment was completed. All the diplomats and members of j their parties wore conventional 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 today. A spot of color was made against this sombre background by the French guards. A few selected mem^ bers of the guard were resplendent in their red-plumed silver helmets I ifes,; COMMITS SUICIDE IN PRISON. Doctor Convicted of Wife Murder Hangs Himself. Mineola, N. Y., June 29.?Dr. Wa!ten Keene Wilkins, who was convicted of the murder of his wife Julia by a.Jury here Friday afternoon committed suicide in the bathroom of the Nassau county jail tonight by hanging himself with a rope.^ Although the aged physician's heart was still beating when he was cut down and every effort was made by the jail physicians to save his life, he died a few minutes after 8 o'clock. Dr. Wilkins's neck was broken, it was announced. Jail officials were unable to explain how the doctor obtained the rope with which he ended his life. During the afternoon he had been busy writing in his cell. When he had finished writing he expressed a j wish to go to the bathroom. His two guards, John Mills and William flenderson, allowed him to enter the room, where he climbed upon a chair, adjusted the rope and leaped off. When the guards cut Dr. Wilkins down a short time later his pulse was still beating and they gave him first aid treatment, while awaiting the arrival of physicians, who used a pulmoter but without success. The rope Dr. Wilkins used was new. He had been thoroughly searched on Saturday, jail officials said, and it would have been impossible for him to have concealed the rope about his person. He had no visitors this afternoon except the chaplain. How the rope came into the prisoner's possession will be the subject of an investigation by the jail and county authorities, it was stated. Said He Was Innocent. The doctor spent the entire afternnnn writine1 his letter nf self vindi cation and two other letters giving J directions for the disposal of his body and care of several pets to which he was greatly attached. "Rather than be driven across the State of New York by Carmen plant (Nassau) detective and delivered up to Sing Sing prison," he wrote in the first letter, "I prefer to be my owrn executioner. Besides, it will save Justice Manning from looking into my face when he tells me I have had a fair trial. "I am absolutely innocent of this crime which the indictment charges me with." The letter was addressed to J. P. Healey, of Brooklyn, an acquaintance. The second was addressed to Mrs. Elizabeth Muller, of Monticello, N. Y., j formerly his housekeeper, requesting her tq see that his pets were well cared for. The third letter, addressed to Sheriff Phineas Seamen, requested that his body be cremated. In Life, In Death?More Pep. It was a sad death.bed scene, but the director was not satisfied with the hero's acting. "Come on!" he cried, "put more life in your dying!"?Film Fun. and red, white and blue uniforms. As a contrast with the Franco-German peace session of 1871, held in the same hall, there were present today grizzled French veterans of the Franco-Prussian war: They replac J x-u ^ ea tne Prussian guarasmen ui uie previous ceremony and the Frenchmen today watched the ceremony with grim satisfaction. The conditions of 1871 were exactly reversed. Today the disciples of Bismarck sat in the seats of the lowly while the white marble statute of Minerva, goddess of war, looked on. Overhead on the frescoed ceiling, were scenes from France's ancient wars. Three Incidents Come. Three incidents were emphasized by the smoothness with which the ceremony was conducted. The first of these was the failure of the Chinese delegation to sign. The second was the protest submitted by Gen. Jan Christian Smuts, who declared the peace unsatisfactory. The third, unknown to the general pub-j lie, came from the Germans. When the programme for the ceremony was cV>rtTi'n +V> Q riormsm dp?lA?ation. Herr von Haimhausen of the German delegation went to Col. Henri, French liason officer, and protested. He said: "We can not admit that the Ger- j man delegates should enter the hall by a different door than the entente delegates, nor that military honors should be withheld. Had we known j there would be such arrangements before, the delegates would not have come." . PRESIDENT WILSON SAILS FOR HOME DEPARTURE FROM BREST CAUSES BUT LITTLE EXCITEMENT. French Warships Salute Mrs. Wilson Presented Roquet; Band Plays "Star Spangled Banner" and Marseilles." Brest, June 29.?President Wilson, the treaty with Germany signed, sailed from Brest today on his return to the United States. The U. S. S. George Washington carrying the presidential party, steamed from the harbor at 2:20 o'clock this afternoon. rue departure or tne president from France caused little excitement in this port. There was only a distance of fifty feet from where his special train stopped to where a motor launch was waiting to convey him to the George Washington. There was a little cheering and applause from the several thousand who had gathered at the embarkation pier. A procession of Socialists, singing the "Internationale," debouched from the Rue Sin as the President walked across the pier. The president waved his silk hat to the paraders. Gathered on the wharf were French and American officials. The first to greet the president were Admiral H. Salaun and Admiral E. H. Benoit, of the French navy. Rear Admiral A. S. Halstead, of the American navy, and Major Gen. E. A. Helmick and Brig. Gen. Smedley Butler greeted the president in turn. The president stood aft on the launch, waving his hat at the crowd on the national bridge. The launch was lost to view down the harbor just as the Socialist parade reached the cliffs overlooking the harbor. "This is America." "This is America" were the president's words as he shook hands with Capt. Edward McCauley aboard the George Washington. The president and Mrs. Wilson retired to their staterooms as the engine and machinery began to roar and final orders were given. Luncheon was served at 1 o'clock and the meal had just been completed when the George Washington began to make headway out of the harbor. The battleship Oklahoma led the way. The destroyers Wooley and Tarbell were on the port and starboard sides, while the Wickes and Yarnell brought up the rear. As the transport moved out the president appeared on the bridge wearing a cap. Rear Admiral Grayson, his jfhysician, stood near by. The president was silent as he gazed at the disappearing shores of France. The weather was perfect and there was scarcely a ripple on the ocean as the George Washington emerged from the Brest Roads into the Atlantic. The French destroyers Fanion ^and Carquois escorted the presidential squadron to the Ushant light. Alter saluting wun tneir sirens auu guns the French warships returned to Brest. As the George Washington disappeared in the summer haze the president stpod on the bridge, waving a farewell answer to the salute from the French warships. ^ i?> wm ? Jerusalem's Water System. However individual inhabitants of Jerusalem may differ in regard to the British occupation, there is one result concerning which their approval can hardly be anything short of unanimous. Jerusalem at least has an adequate, water supply, and this blessing has come with the British. In more than'1,000 years from the time when Herod established a water system for ancient Jerusalem, nothing had been done, ti^ll the beginning of the present century, to enlarge or even keep up the Herodian system, and it had long ago fallen into disuse. The city depended largely on private cisterns of rain water, and it was considered an event when the Turks, in 1901, partially restored the work of Herod. But this restoration, as the British found, provided only a small aqueduct and pipe from the Pools of Solomon, which also supplied water to Bethlehem. In the past six months the British royal engineers have restored and improved the TT J rtr J 1Am n ATXT nexouictu s.vsicui, anu <;ci uwiciii iiv/" has plenty of good water. i^ >?> ^ ? Read the startling experiences of the hero and heroine in Perils of Thunder Mountain in The Herald. NEGRO FLEECES WHITE MEN. Willie Bell Offers Liquor at Low Prices. Willie Bell, negro, about 23 years old, was brought before the recorder yesterday on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Two well known citizens stood before the railing to explain how they parted company with $36 each while making an effort to secure three gallong of liquor which Bell claimed he could deliver. One witness testified that Bell fleeced him out of $36 on Friday, June 13, and the second victim lost his cash Thursday afternoon. Chief Richardson put an end to the traffic when he apprehended Bell a short time after the scheme was pulled Thursday. The first prosecuting witness told f lia AAiirf f Vi + V> a tt'O c awonbino* o iyj a_ tut* v-uui i mat ins vv ao V/iaiinmg u, lllkjtor car when Bell came up and offered to sell him three gallons of liquor for $36. The proposition looked good and the prospective buyer soon located a party who suggested that the deal be made on a 50-50 basis. The witness said he hired a transfer and Bell directed the driver to a house on Lady street, where he secured $36, walked into the house and disappeared. The two men lost $18 each. The judge sent the case to the criminal court, and fixed bond at $200. Another prominent citizen said he was near a drug store when Bell offered his three gallons of fluid for $36. The price was right and the name of the stock was satisfactory. The witness said he took Bell in his car they stopped at a house on West Lady street, The negro left the car and went into a house. He returned and asked for the money which was poured into his hands. Bell disappeared and it was ten minutes later when the vision of three gallons of real booze faded away like a soap bubble. The car beat a path to the police station where Chief Richardson listened to the story. The prospective buyer gave a vivid description of Bell and in a few hours he was behind the bars. The judge ordered the second case sent to the criminal court and fixed bond at $200. Bell was identified yesterday by the two men who gave him $36 and by the transfer driver who drove the first party to Bell's liquor depot. The prosecuting witnesses seemed to enjoy the experience, but appeared to look with disfavor upon the cost of the operation. The search for whiskey cost money, time, gasoline and wear and tear on tires.?Columbia State* HOME WITH FRENCH BRIDE. Lieut, and Mrs. Kenneth Lowman Visiting Orangeburg. Orangeburg, June 27.?Lieut. K. E. Lowman, U. S. N., is now visiting his relatives in this city. Lieut. Lowman has with him his French bride, and sister-in-law. He has been in the navy about three years, and is in the surgical branch of the service. For many months Lieut. Lowman was stationed at Brest, France, and there he met his wife, who was formerly Miss Mvrtille Fauttrat, daughter of a French colonel. Lieut. Lowman and his bride have met a host of friends, J i- - -1 J f-:--J Ti-nlnAmintr 3.11(1 I11S U1Q IlieilUS <3.1 G ncn/Uimus him home, for this short stay as he returns in a few days to resume his work at the Norfolk Navy Yard. CYCLOPS STORY A MISTAKE. i Graniteville Mother Has Not Heard From Her Son. Graniteville, June 27.?Mrs. Anna Ramsey, mother of Otis Ramsey, a seaman lost in the mysterious disappearance of the United StafeTcollier Cyclops, said Tuesday she had received no word from her son, as reported Tuesday in Columbia. The Columbia report was that a telegram bearing the son's name had been sent her from New York, saying he was safe. ^ ci ? Vicarious Atonement. \ "Ah, me/' sighed the successful man who was revisiting the old vil " "? a lage sonooi, "now time aoes ny. unity years ago T sat in this front seat, and it seems to me as if it were but yesterday. If I am not very much mistaken, you'll find my initials carved on the desk." "The're there, right enough," said the present occupant of the seat. "I got whipped for doing it just because my initials happened to be the same as yours."?Answers. WOULD SAVE THE EX-KAISER'S LIFE' KX-CHAXC'KLLqil OFFERS TO 1 COME TO TRIAL, y < Appeals to the Allies : i Characterized Belgium's Neutrality j in Addressing Reichstag as ] "Scrap of Paper." < Berlin, Saturday, June 28.?Dr". 1 Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg former German chancellor, has form] ally asked the Allied and associated i powers to place him on trial instead of the former Emperor. The former j chancellor says that he assumes responsibility for the acts of Germany during his period of office and places ' himself at the disposal of the Allies. ] The request of the former chancelTT. or. T,, ~ ~ o r ~ ikji wao iiiauc kjll u uuc 4o m a willmunication to Premier Clemenceau, president of the conference. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, it is said, desired to take this step on May 20, hut refrained at that time on the expressed wish of the German government. The communication asked Premier Clemenceau to bring the following document to the knowledge of the Allied and associated powers. Ailled Demands. "In article 227 of the peace terms the Allied and associated powers publicly arraign his Majesty, William II, of Hohenzollern, former German Emperor, for a supreme oflense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties. At the same time they announce their resolve to address a request to the government of the Netherlands for the surrender of the former emperor for purpose of trial. "With reference thereto I take the liberty of addressing a request to tho powers to let the projected proceedings against his Majesty, the Emperor, be taken against me. For this object I hereby place myself at the disposal of the Allied and associated powers. Assumes Responsibility. "As former German imperial chancellor I bear for my period of office sole responsibility, as regulated in the German Constitution, for the political acts of the emperor. I believe I " can deduce therefrom the claim that ' the reckoning which the Allied and 1 associate powers desire to demand ( for these acts shall be demanded sole- 1 ly of me. /( "Being convinced that the Allied * and associated powers will not deny J international respect to the legal po- ' sition fixed by public constitutional ^ law, I may express the hope that they 1 will be inclined to yield to my urgent : request. (Signed) "VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG " Woman Accused of Arson. Greenville, June 27.?A sensation was created here today by the arrest of Mrs. J. W. McFarland, college , graduate, author of a published book c of poems and former city school J teacher, who is charged with complicity in starting the fire that de- ^ stroyed five buildings on Rhett and Pendleton streets here last night. That Mrs. McFarland is demented on , the subject of fires is the belief of ( dition' to the confession he claimed ( dit on to the confession he claimed that Mrs. McFarland has made to ] him that she started last night's fire, ( he has evidence to show that she was responsible for the burning of the ' Colonial Apartments about two months ago. Mrs. MCJbariana m me ^ cell tonight emphatically denied that , she had confessed to setting fire to the Rhett street buildings. Friends said Mrs. McFarland was asleep and that they waked her when the fire occurred last night. i Prominent persons have interested ( themselves in Mrs. McFarland's case. ( She comes from a prominent Georgia t family, it is said, and taught in the < city schools here, having married a ( soldier in the Thirtieth Division in ? Greenville in the fall of 1917. Her ] husband is now in France. t HI ^ Xo Money Needed. 1 Anxious Mama?Little Dick is up- i stairs crying with the toothache. 1 Practical Papa?Take him around j to the dentist's. i "I haven't any money." t "You don't need any money. Tne ? toothache will stop before you get i there."?Tit-Bits. t Read The Herald, $2.00 per year. I / TRUTH ABOUT U-BOATS. Undersea Terror Less Formidable Tlian Was Supi>osed. The truth about the German failure n submarine warfare is now being 'eveuled in publications that no longer cringe under the whip of an official censorship that was without conscience or horror. According to the Berlin Vossisc-he Zeitung, Germany lost 19S submarines during the war, including seven interned in foreign ports and 14 destroyed by their own crews. This statement is an admisr sion that 177 were sunk by the AlI i o r> rl 1 of coo Ac? rv-? f +Vjo uuu ivcw ?. c ova. iiiuov vi iuw U-boats carried as many men as aould be crowded into them, the announcement that 3,000 sailors were drowned in the sinking is not -?ur- , prising; but the darker tragedy is :hat the conditions of service on these vessels were so nerve-wrecking that several thousand sailors lost their reason and were committed to insane asylums. Here is an explanation of the mutinous spirit that spread through the High Seas Fleet and at last destroyed its morale. A final cast of fortune in a battle with the Allied fleets could no more be considered. The keenest and bravast men were'being drafted to the submarines, but as the ghastly truth af the horrors of the service became known to every common sailor men refused to join the U-boats, and in the end discipline utterly failed at Kiel. The navy, which had been the pride of the kaiser, was a service rot'#n +? tho r>nrp Rritish officers have spoken contemptuously of the spirit :hat surrendered the High Sea Fleet without striking a blow, but there ivas no fight left in it. If any other lavy had fairly flogged its men into i submarine campaign that was odijus in the sight of mankind, and to jngage in which was sure to be suijide sooner or later, would not disupline and the joy of battle have leased to exist' in that service? The Germans fought bravely in the battle of Jutland, and died like men in ;he Pacific When their time came, 3ut they could not endure the ugly [J-boat coffins which doomed them :o death or the loss of their reason. The submarine campaign was lost N ong before the Germans signed the irmistice. Listening devices, depth Dombs, and the unerring guns of the swarming destroyers made each ventre from the base like a forlorn lope, and to find crews became the iespair of the admiralty. At the last but few submarines were in jommission, and it seemed futile to ?o on building them in quantities. Against a powerful, resourceful and ictive enemy the submarine is no longer to be dreaded, but this could iot have been said in the first three rears of the war. * .... avf cunT ttt.t.c ttrn \n?v U.l 1'J OllVl lllliliu X II V ITUJill Fellow Shot Intended For Ducked and Escaped. Columbus, Ga., June 29.?Charles McDaniel, 25, and J. R. Hayes, 24, tvere killed here early today by a single shot, which, according to the police was fired by Robert Parr at Dllie Jones with whom he had quarreled. Parr and Jones were said to have sngaged in an argument over money ivhen suddenly Parr pulled out a pistol and shouting to McDaniel to look Dut, fired at Jones. The latter ducksd and escaped injury. Parr surrendered later in the day and asserted that he knew nothing of the affair. Fones was also arrested and the men wrere put in the same cell in the ounty jail. They had a fight and had :o be transferred to separate cells it tvas said at the jail. ? i > ? Pistol Shot Ends Infe. Chester, June 26.?T. J. Cornwell, ibout 55 years of age, deputy clerk )f court of Chester county, and one )f the most popular men of this secion, while oiling or loading his 38 lalibre revolver this morning about 8 j'clock accidentally discharged 'it, sending the bullet through his heart, rle expired almost instantly. No one vas present in the room. Mrs. Cornveil had asked him to get up for breakfast and he had replied by sayng that he would be out in a few ninutes. A revolver shot was then leard and members of the family ushed in but found Mr. Cornwell dyng, the end coming very soon after hey reached the room. He never spoke again. Physicians' and friends vere quickly on the scene, but it was oo late. Hair raising thrills in our serial. '