SIGNING PEACE ARRANGEMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13854, 10 June 1919, Page 4

SIGNING PEACE ARRANGEMENTS.

We have another good example to-day of the "piffle" that is sent out to this etuiitry under the guise of ''cable news. '■" We are told that it was first proposed that the peace terms should be handed round for signature. It was then suggested that the signing should be at a small fable facing the windows, so that the rest of the gathering could only see tho delegate's back. Upon Sir Win. Orpen 's suggestion the Treaty will be signed-at a table behind that at which the plenipotentiaries sit. The rf presenlatives of the various nations Mill walk itj) to a platform and turn round, facing the light, with their backs to the mirrors, and then sign the documents. How awfully intersting all this is! The cable man might have completed the " piffie ,, by stating what colour of tie the delegates will wear, what brand of boots, and as to whether the cicase in the trousers is to be at the wide or the front! The public have reason to complain at this oversight on the part of the caSle man! But, probably, following the usual custom, tho cables will contradict these details and give us another set of equally absurd - U'.-v'sf ions and decisions. The public of mis country are long-suffering in connection with the matter that is sent out as ' 'cable news. ,.