HOW PEACE TREATIES ARE PREPARED.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 17 August 1917, Page 1

HOW PEACE TREATIES ARE PREPARED.

When the war comes to an end a treaty of peace will be signed, .sealed, and delivered, as l>etween the various belligerents. This will be a most imposing document, written' by hand throughout, sealed with many seals, and bound about with "reen silk ribbon. Following the usual custom, each copy will begin with the words: " In the name of the Most Hob and Undivided Trinity." Should, however, Turkey be one of the signatory Powejfi, as seeius probable, this formula, will lie altered i» "In the Name of Allah the Ahmghtv God" in the copy allotted to her. At least as many original copies as thereare signatory Powers will be signed and sealed. The original copies will be secuieiv lockad up in tie State archives of the dif-

erent countries. Certified coja'es will be used lor printing from and for reference. Peace treaties are not written strai-'ht across the page, or pages, like ordinarv documents. They are written in parallel columns, one in English, the next in French, the next in Italian, German, Russian, and so on, according to the number of languages spoken by the peoples of the signatory Powers. The text of each of these columns is an exact translation of the text of all the other columns, and the utmost pains is taken in the selection of vords that will convey identical shades <>f meaning. The monaichs of the signatory Powers do not affix their signatures or seals to the psace treaties entered into by them. This important formality is carried out by specially accredited Peace Plenipotentiaries.