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* PDACE TREATY WAS
* SIGNED SATURDAY
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HISTORY MAKING CEREMONY
OCCUPIES LITTLE TIME.
Chinese Refuse to Sign
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German National Assembly Must
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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nexouictu s.vsicui, anu <;ci uwiciii iiv/"
has plenty of good water.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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
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Appeals to the Allies :
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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
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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.
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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
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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. * ....
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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.
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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.
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