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TBE SPMTEB W?TCHJE?N, Estabi Consolidated Au.?. 2,1 TERMS OF TREATY FINALLY OVEN Last Act Comes Before Deliv ery, of Document to Ger i mans - r rr ? ALL POWERS ON HAND AT CLOSING Session Held at Foreign Office With/ Great Crowds Gathered Outside Building. Paris, May 6 (By the Associated Press).?The plenary peace conference completed its work today so far as Germany is concerned and at a secret plenary session communicated the terms of the peace treaty to all the powers represented at the conference. This was the last act before delivery of the treaty to the Germans at Ver -sailles tomorrow. The session -w^s held in the foreign office, with the same getting and dis ? t inguished personnel as at previous public session except in the case of . Italy, which today was represented by . Dr. Silvio Crespi, the former food ad ministrator, pending the arrival of Premier Orlando and Foreign Min ister Sinnino tomorrow. M. Clemenceau presided with Pres . ident Wilson at his right and Premier Lloyd George at his left, with the en tire membership of the conference grouped around the table. Enormous throngs surrounded the foreign office watching the arrival of the delegates. Those who assembled within the building included Marshal Foch and the British vice admiral, Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, with their staffs. While the session was a secret one, it is understood that Capt. Andre Tardieu, representing France, ex plained the provisions of the docu ment and was questioned from time to time, the explanations given being full and free. Paris, May G.-p-Marshal Foch in a speech at the plenary session de clared that the security given France was inadequate from ' a military point of view and said it was his ;>er ,,/sonaI conviction that the treaty should not be signed. The marshal emphasized the neces sity of France holding the bridge heads along the Rhine and said occu pation limited to 15 years was rot sufficient. The Chinese delegates presented a brief, formal and dignified protest concerning the disposition of Kiao Chau. The Portuguese delegates ex pressed dissatisfaction regarding the treatment accorded Portugal. The protestations made by the va rious delegates are not regarded ; s serious as no definite reservations were made by the protestants. Signor Crespi said he desired to j make reservations concerning any provisions in the treaty not accept able to Italy. Lu Cheng-Hsiang, the Chinese for eign minister, asked for reconsidera tion of the decision regarding Shang Tung and Kiao Chau. The Chinese foreign minister said that in the opinion of the Chinese delegation regard for justice or for the without regard for justice or for the protection of the territorial integrity of Cfcwa. He said that if reconsider ation was impossible he desired to make reservation on behalf of China. London, May 6.?A dispatch to the central news from Paris says the most interesting feature of the plenary session of the peace confernce today was the unanimous adoption of arti cles providing for the trial of tne former German emperor and those re sponsible for crimes and atrocities' during the war. Paris, May 6 (By the Associated Press).?The clause regarding respon sibilities which was not acted on at the previous session of the plenary conference, it is understood, has been incorporated in the tinal draft of the treaty.' This provides for the trial of the former German emperor for *'a supreme offense against the interna tional morality and the sanctity cf treaties." by a tribunal composed of representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Ja pan. Versailles, May 6 (By the Associ ated Press).?The report that the German ministers. Landsberg and Giesberts, have left the German pe u:e delegation and returned to Berlin is untrue. ^aris, May 7.?France, the United States and Great Britain have con cluded an agreement giving supple mentary guarantees for France, and security for the peace treaty. The Echo de Paris today says it is learned. It adds that Clemenceau. Lloyd George and President Wilson will be at the meeting this morning to draft in final form this additional pact, which will not be secret. Washington, May 7.?Secretary Baker announced today that by Aug ust the last mar! of the American expeditionary forces would be with drawn from France. Par53, May 7.?German delegates to the peace conference declare th.^t they will sign the peace treaty, but .Germany will not pay an indemnity. feftea April, 1850. "Bo JusS a 881. PEACE CONGRESS AT VERSAILLES The Opening Session Was Brief: and Business Like in The Extreme I j CLEMENCEAU SAYS NO I PLACE FOR WORDS ? I Count Von Brockdorf Admits Germany's Complete Defeat And Acknowledges That Pow er is Broken. Versailles, May 7 (Ha^ s).??In op ; ening the session of the peace con gress, M. Clemenceau, the presiding i officer, speaking: to the German pleni potentiaries said: "It is unnecessary to express need I less words. You have before you the plenipotentiaries of the. small and j great powers united in this most I cruel-war, which was imposed upon j them. The hour has arrived for a ? heavy settlement of the^ account." I Paul Dutast, secretary general of j the peace conference, delivered a I copy of the treaty to Count von j Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of lhe Ger man delegation who made a brief re ply: Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau said: "We declare that we do not deny the extent of our defeat. We know the power of the German armies is broken." He was unable to admit that Ger many was solely culpable, and de manded that the allies make peace, according to President Wilson's points. Germany pledged itself to repair the wrong done to Belgium and gave assurance of the reconstruction of j the territories in northern France, i Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau [asked for the liberation of German I prisoners and said that Germany [adopted the league of nations. Following is the address of M. Clemenceau to the German delegates at the peace congress today: "Gentlemen, Plenipotentiaries of the German Empire: j "It is neither the time nor the j place for superllous words. You have before you the accredited plenipoten-i tiaries of all the small and great powers united to fight together in the war that has been so cruelly imposed on them. The time has come when , we must settle our accounts. I "You have asked for peace. We are ready to give you peace. We shall present to you now a book which con tains our conditions. You will be giver every facility to examine these conditions, and the time necessary for it. Everything will be done with the courtesy that is the privilege of civil Sized nations. "To give you my thought complete I ly. you will lind us ready to give you I any explanation you want, but we ?must say at the same time that this ; second treaty of Versailles has cost j us too much not to take on ourselves 1 the necessary precautions and guar antees that the peace shall be a last I ing one. I "I will give you notice of the proce . dure that has been adopted by the conference for discussion and if any ?one has any observations to offer he : will have the right to do so. Xo oral (discussion is to take place and the I observations of the German delega tion will have to be submitted in writ ? ing. ) "The German plenpiotentiaries will know that they have the maximum period of 1 ."> days within which to [present in English and French their i written observations on the whole of ; the treaty. Before expiration of the aforesaid period of 3? days the Ger !man delegates will be entitled to send I their reply on particular headings of ' the treaty or to ask questions in re i gard to them. i "After having examined the obser i vat ions presented within aforemen i tioned period the supreme council will .send their answer in writing to the j German delegation and determine the I period within which the final global I (worldwide) answer must be given I by this delegation. "The president wishes to add that When we receive, after two or three ] or four or live days, any observa- i lions from the German delegation or :any point of the treaty, we shall not1 [wait until the end of the 15 days to ? give our answe r. We shall at once I .proceed in the way indicated by this! document.' ' < i M. Clemenceau spoke in French. ! Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau,? I head of the German delegation, speaking in German. s..ld: "Gentlemen: We are deeply im pressed with the sublime task which ! has brought us hither to give a dura-, jble peace to the world. We are under no illusion as to the extent of our de feat and degree of our want of pow- j er. We know that the power of the! German arms is broker. We know ;he power of the hatred which we en counter here, and we have heard lbe passionate demand that the vanquish ers may make us pay as the van-' quished, and sl.-jll pun5t?h those who are worthy of being pi: .-bed. "It is demanded from us that we .hall confess ourselves to be the only ones guilty of the war. Such a con fession in my mouth would be a lie. We are far from declining any re-: sponsibility that this great war of the. world has come to p:iss and that it I was made in the way in which it was 1 made. The attitude of the former nd Fear/ not?De* a? the en da Thon ?J SUMTER, S. C, SAT? SPECIAL SESSION CONGRESS CALLED President Wilson Issues Pro | clamation by Cable For Special Session iTO MEET ON ! j MAY NINETEENTH i _ i iThe Date is Much Earlier Than i ! Party Leaders Expected Washington.'1 May 7.?Presidenl I Wilson issued a call, by cable todaj j for a special session of congress tc j meet Monday, May lyth. Secretary I Tumulty, in making the announce j ment, Siiid it will be impossible foi j the president to be here on the open i ing day. The date is fixed much earl iier than Democratic leaders expected j Officials said in naming the earlyfdat? the. president was guided largely b> advices from Secretary Glass as to the necessity of passing appropriatior measures, which failed in the closing days of the last session. MAY GO HOME ! FOR ORDERS I Rumored That Members of Ger j man Delegation Will Con I suit Government I NO COMMUNICATION ! YET MADE ON TREATY j All .Exchanges Between Dele gation and Germany H^Ve Been Kept Secret. j Paris. May Intimations reach ! ing the Peace Conference lead to tht I belief that two or three members ol j the German peace delegation will probably return to Germany to con sult their government, the others re maining at Versailles. Germany has not yet submitted any communica tion regarding the peac* treaty, all j exchanges between the delegation and j Berlin being kept secret. A copy oi ! the treaty was sent to Berlin last ! night by courier. German government at The Hague I peace conference, its actions and omis sions in the tragic 12 days of July : have certainly contributed to the dis aster. But we energetically deny thai Germany and its people, who wer?' convinced that they were making a war of defer.se, were alone guilty, i "Nobody will want to contend that I the disaster took its course only in the disastrous moment when the suc cessor to the throne of Austria-Hun gary fell the victim of murderous hands. In the last 50 years the im perialism of all the European states Juts chronicle poisoned the interna jtional situation. The policy of retal iation and the policy of expansion and jtlie disregard of the rights of peoples I to determine their own destiny have contributed to the illness of Europe. I which saw its crisis in the world war. "Russian mobilization took from [the statesmen the possibility of heal ? ing and gave the decision into the i hands of the military powers. Public j opinion in all the countries of our j adversaries is resounding with the I crimes which Germany is said to ihave committed in the war. Here also j we are rea<ly to confess wrong that I may have been done. "We have not come here to belittle [the responsibility of those who have 'waged the war politically and econom j ically or to deny any crimes which ! have been committed against the ' rights' of peoples. We repeat the dec laration which has been made in the [ German reichstag at the beginning of the war, that is to say "Wrong: has b< fjn done to Belgium' and we are willing to repair it. "But itt the manner of making war also Germany is not the only guilty otie. Every nation knows of deeds and of people, which the best nationals only remember with regret. I do not want to answer reproaches by re proaches, but I ask them to remem ber when reparation is demanded, not to f??rge1 the armistice. I' took ns six weeks until we v<>t ir at last, and six more until w<- came to know your conditions of peace. "Crimes in war may not be excus able, but they are committed in the struggle for victory and in the de fense of nat ioi!.-i 1 existence and pas sions are aroused which make the conscience of people blunt. "The hundreds of thousands of non combatants who have perished since November 11 by reason of the block ade were killed with cold delibera tion after our adversaries had con auered and victory had been assured to them. Think of that when you speak of guilt and of punishment." ittft't at be thy Country's, Tay God's a RDAY, MAY 10, 1919, NAVY FLYER HOP OFF TO-DAY Three Seaplanes Left Roe^away Beach for Halifax at Ten O'clock FIRST LEG FIVE j . HUNDRED MILESi The Route Runs to Trepassy, Azores, Portugal and Thence to England. j New York, May S.?The first trans ?j Atlantic flight was begun today when ? I three navy seaplanes left Rockaway j Beach at 10 A. M. on the first leg of j the journey; from Rockaway to Hal '! ifax\ 540 miles. j Seaplane NC-3 was the first plane to leave, and NC-1 and NC-4 follow ed closely. They are expected to ar rive at Halifax before night. Thence j the rot *e runs four hundred and sixty ? i miles to Trepassey, thirteen hundred 11 and fifty miles to Azores, another ;i eight hundred miles to Portugal and 1 on to Plymouth, Eng. NATIONS STUDY PEACE TREATY lEyes of World Focused on The Versailles Peace Con gress MANY QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED j Generally Believed That Ger I .- many Will Sign But Must Be ! Forced to Make Good ? ? Washington. May s.?The eyes of J the world today are focused on the treaty of Versailles. Statesmen and diplomats everywhere are turning over the phrases of the. official pub lished summary of the terms to form ; their opinions. In the United States the question? being asked were: How did it af ! feet America? Will the senate rati ! fy it? Will Germany accept? Offi cial Washington, with the president ?and secretary of State in Paris, con i gress in adjournment and many Iead I ers of both sides absent, was rather ; devoid of authoritative explanation of the first two questions. For the third j the generally accepted opinion seem-! ed to be thai, the Germans would ac-! cept the convention. but tiiat it j might require economic pressure to j being about the fulfillment of some ol j its terms. Division of Colonies England, Australia, New Zea land and Japan Control Ger man Possessions ; Paris, .May 7 (By the Associated <Vn<s)?The council of. three has! i agreed upon the disposition of the! 'former German colonies. The mandate I for the German Samoan Islands goes' j to New Zealand, and for the other former German possession south of ? the Equator to Australia. Japan isi to be mandatory of the islands north) : of the Equator. I The official communication on this j ; subject says: j "The council of three, M. Clemen- j j ceau. President Wilson and Mr. J.loyd George yesterday decided as to the! j disposition of the former German ?;oi ! onies as follows: ??Togoiand and Kamerun?France I [and Great Britain shall make a joint! j recommendation to the league of tia- | tions as to their future. "German East Africa?The man-] date shall be held by Great Britain. '?German Southwest Africa?The! imandate shall be held by the union! of South Africa. "The German Samoa Islands?Th^ j j mandate shall be held by New ?ea-j land. j' The other German Pacific posses-' sions south of the Equator excluding! the German Samoan Islands and .\'mr: the mandate shall be held by AUS- j1 India. !-j "Nauru (Pleasant Island) ? Tbc! mandate shall be given to the British i Empire "The German Pacific Islands ;ee-h; of Equator - the mandate shall be held by Japan. j ^ Two and Half Billion u Washington. May S.?New reports of subscriptions to the Victory loan 1 today sent the nation's total above two j and one-half billions and the manag-] i ers hoped it would reach three bil lion by tonight. 1 Jed marc.* TSE TRTJ1 SYNOPSIS OF PEACE TERMS Official Summary Given Out By Peace Conference Wednesday TERMS MADE DRASTIC TO FIT CRIME i I Germany Will Be Forced to Pay j in Part for Attack on Civiliza tion. New York. May 7.?The treaty of peace, submitted to the German dele gates at Versailles today by the rep resentatives of the associated powers reduces Germany to military impo tence, deprives her of her colonies, re i stores Alsace a-.d Lorraine to France and provides for repatriation to the lations injured by her in the war. This was made known in an official summary of the treaty, cabled front: ;he American peace commission to the :ommittee on public information in Xew York. At the same time official announcement was made that Presi . dent Wilson himself agrees to propose to the senate an agreement that the United States in conjunction witt Great Britain, would go to the as sistance of France in case of an un provoked attack by Germany. The announcement of this proposed agree ment was made in a statement -sup plementing the official summary ol ?**e peace treaty which reads: ?In addition to the securities af forded in the treaty of peace, th( president of the- United States ha; j pledged himself to propose to the sen ? ate of the United States, and th< j prime minister of Great Britain ha; pledged himself to propose to the par Iiament of Oreat Britain, an pnsage ment. subject to the approval of th< council of the league of rations, t( come immediately to the assistance o I France in case of unprovoked attacl by Germany." ""he main points in the peace treat: i!c. ovv: Alsace and Lorraine go to France All the bridges over the Rhine 01 I (heir borders are to be in French cen I irol. j The port of Danzig is permanentl: j internationalized and most of uppei Silesia is ceded to Poland, whose in dependence Germany recognizes. Po i land also receives the province 0 Posen and that portion of the province of West Prussia west of the Vistula. The Saare coal basin is temporarilj [internationalized. The coal mines'gc j o France. Germany recognizes the I lotal independence of German-Austria and Czecho-SIovakia. I Germany's colonies are taken from her by the clause in which she re nounces all her territorial and polit ical rights outside Europe. The league of nations will work out the mandatory system for governing these colonies. Eelgium is conditionally given the I Malmedy and Eupen district of Prus I sia bordering on Belgium with the op portunity to be given the inhabitants [to protest. The league of nations has j the final decision. Luxemburg is set free from the Ger. I man customs union. All concessions and territory in Chi :ia must be renounced. Shantung is ceded to Japan. Germany recognizes the French in Morocco and the Brit ish protectorate over Egypt. German troops and authorities must evacuate Schleswig-Holstein north of the Kiel Canal within ten days after peace. A commission will be appoint ed to supervise a vote of self-deter mination in the territory and the dis tricts wishing to join Denmark will be ceded by Germany. Helgoland must be demolished and by German labor the Kiei Canal must be opened to all nations. The German cables in dispute are surrendered. Germany may not have an army of more than 100.000 men and can not resort to conscription. She must raze all her forts for ~>0 kilometers east of the Rhine and is al most entirely prohibited from pro- j ducing war materials. Violation of j the 7,0 kilometer zone restriction will be considered an act of war. Only six capital ships, of not more' than 10,000 tons each, are allowed, Germany for her navy, she is permit ted six light cruisers. 12 destroyers, and 12 torpedo boats in addition to 1 six battleships but no submarines. All civilian damages arc to be re-j imbursed by Germany, her initial payment to be 20.000.000.000 marks, j with subsequent payments to be se cured by bonds The must replace shipping, ton for ton. handing over a great part of her merchant tonnage and turning out! new const ruction for the purpose. She must also devote her resources to re- ; building the devastated region. Parts of Germany will be occupied! >n a diminishing scale until repara-! inn is made. Germany must agree to the trial ofj Former Emperor William by an inter national court for a supreme offense ] lgainst international morality and to :he trial of others of her subjects for. violations of the laws and customs of; var. The allies and Germany aceept the eague of nations, Germany, however, j icoepting only in principle and not as 1 member. All treaties and agreements withj Bolshevik Russia must be abrogated1 3 SOUTHRON, EstabUsbed Jone, IUI VoLXLVHI. No. 26. FRAMING TERMS ! FOR AUSTRIA i j Council of Four Now at Work i j On Text of Treaty -_ :r\ ! ? ? ? * j BIG INDEMNITY TO ^ ^ BE EXACTED I ' - j Premier Orlando Present To-day j When Program for Austria i Was Taken Up. ! _ I Paris, May 8.?The council of four j with Premier Orlando of Italy pres ] ent, began today to arrange the pro ! gram for the presentation of the peace terms to the Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian delegations. The Austrian treaty has begun to take form, por tions having already been drafted. It appears that instead of Germany ! being required to pay the entire in demnity demanded by the allies, a considerable sum will be demanded of Austria, the estimate at present being five billion crowns. This indemnity provision and the delimitation of .new states and fron ? j tiers will be the main features of the i j treaty. j China Refuses To I Sign Treaty \I. - j Japan Warns China About the Anti-Japanese Agitations ?l _ ? i Pekin. Tuesday May 6.?(By the 1 j Associated Press.-The Chinese cabi 5 j net at a meeting today decided to in ? struct the Chinese delegates in Paris - not to sign a peace treaty assigning ? the German rights in Shantung to > I the Japanese. [ j Japan Warns China j Tokio. May 7.? (By the Associa Jted Press.)?Japan has notified China I that the anti-Japanese'' agitation' in ! Peking at present is liable to cause ^'misunderstandings. The Japanese ! Government also has adviser the Chi . nese Government that it would be . well to prohibit the ''national, dis [ i grace" meeting planned today in Pe? ! king. j Over The Top .Five Counties Have Raised j Quotas of Victory Loan J Columbia. May S.?Charles H. Gerald, secretary of the State central, j committee, reported today that the' j following counties have gone over the j top in the Victory Loan drive: Union, j Charleston, Calhoun, Darlington and ! Marlboro Mr. Gerald says that reports from j Greenville. Anderson and Spartan I burg are very encouraging and he ex ; pects those counties with full quotas j to report in the safe column in the next fcriy-eight hours, i ???????? j Guardian of Armenia ?United States is Asked to Be j come Mandatory Paris, May 8.?It is expected that ! the United States will be asked to be | come the mandatory for Armenia. The j indications are that President Wilson j will submit the matter to congress. as well as the treaty of Bucharest I with Rumania. I German prisoners of war are to be j repatriated, but the allies will hold ; German officers as hostages for Ger mans accused of crimes. ! "The preamble names as parties of the one part the United States, the British empire, France, Italy and Japan, described as the principal al lied and associated powers, and Bel gium. Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece. Guatemala, Haiti, the Hedjaz. Honduras. Liberia Nica ragua. Panama. Peru. Poland, Por tugal. Rumania. Servia. Siam, Czecho slovakia and Uruguay, who. with the five above are described as the allied and associated powers, and on the other part. Germany. "It states that: Bearing in mind that on the recuest of the then im perial German government an armis tice was granted on November 11, I i> 1S by the principal allied and as sociated powers in order thai a treaty of peace might he concluded with her. and. whereas the allied and as sociated powers being equally desirous that the war in which they were suc cessfully involved, directly or indirect ly, and which originated in the decla ration of war by Austria-Hungary on July 29, 1914, against Servia. the declaration of war by Germany against Russia on August 1. 1914 and against France on August 3, 1914, and in the invasion of Belgium, should be replaced by a firm, just and durable peace, the plenipotentiaries (having communicated their full powers found in good and due form) have agreed as follows: "From the coming into force of the present treaty the state of war will terminate. From the moment and subject to the provisions of this treaty official relations with Germar and with each of the German states will be resumed by the allied and as sociated powers. _