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"A solemn undertaking" by the Allies Monday June 30, 1919The Guardian The formal end of the world-war was reached at twelve minutes pat three on Saturday afternoon, when the German delegates signed the Peace Treaty in the splendid Hall of Mirrors, where the German Empire was proclaimed. The German delegates, led by Herr Hermann Muller, the Foreign Minister, signed first on the invitation of M. Clemenceau, and were followed by the representatives of 26 Allied and Associated nations in alphabetical order. The Chinese alone among the belligerent Powers withheld their signature from the treaty. Their request that the question of...