SNAPPING THE HUN DELEGATION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 254, 22 July 1919, Page 4

SNAPPING THE HUN DELEGATION

HUNS AND THE CAMERAS. The "Evening News" special correspondent in Paris sends a. description of the arrival of the "rather scared-looking" Germans of the second peace batch at VaucrEsson station. Versailles, on Sunday nipht.. He writes:— Thirty of theni were women—typists and secretaries—and the only person among them who counted (according to German ideas of human importance) was liaron von KeSlcr, who has tho diplomatic rank of Councillor cf Embassy. AVhat* made them scared was the 'flashlight bairrago put up by Vrench photographers, who filled the small station platform. They had organised a special drill for their 'batteries of cameras. "Heady!" shouted the > oir.mamling photographers, and shutter-springs ' we're wound up with a click. "Open!" The massed photographers expired their plates. "F ire!" vas tho final order, and the auxiliary flashlight holders spurted a dazzil'ing flame into the air. So blinded were the unfortunate Germans by these inccssant explosions that by tlie time they had got outside the station they were groping like owls driven out of a barn on a sunny "ly, and one walked right down tho bank, and fell sprawling with his imitation leather handbags scat, tered in the mud. Tho prty consisted almost entirely of subordinate, personnel, to Iho number of so-me 200, in two special trains. From ovary train window looked German faces, pale in the electric j light, some fleshy and coarse, some thin and crafty. Salutes botween Baron von KeUer' and Colonel Henry were exchanged uith cold formality at the door of the sleopinf!ear, then the whole procession of Germans began to stream across into the open space outside the station, wh?re motop-'buses were waiting' fc.r ihem, frenchmen were very interested in the women members of the 'jt\rman contingent. "Not so had looking." ''hey « a id. of one or two, "but terribly Hdly dressed."