INDIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 165, 9 June 1919, Page 2

INDIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS.

THE TREATY.

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PAULS, Juno 6. Tlio English and French translations 'of the counter-proposals havu boon «o indifferently prepared by the Germans as to necessitate their being done aver again, causing delay. The nature of the proposals show tha.t they arc from ' anything but a vanquished nation. It is openly said that it may require something in. the nature of a military demonstration to bring the Germans to their senses. Arrangements- have practically been completed as to the method* to be adopted in the signing of the Treaty. It was iirst contempated to pas* the''document; round the conference table for signature. It has now been decided that the Treaty shall be placed or. a small table on the dais in the*. Salle dcs Glaces. Each member will walk to the table and sign. President Wilson, addressing a gathering at Suresnes, paid homage to .the American dead). Ho said that six thousand were buried at Suresnes. He referred to the League of Nations as a legacy of the fallen •to their 'sons. He fearlessly denounced th© old diplomatic bargaanmir, which was at the root of the w#" ; and declared that if the present ■ was' not- final for the right there must be another which would be final. .