Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — CALLS SPEECH OF DANTZAU AMAZING EFFRONTERY [ARTICLE]

CALLS SPEECH OF DANTZAU AMAZING EFFRONTERY

London, May B.—“An amazing piece of effrontery.” the Daily Mail, Lord Northcliff’s pgper, calls Count von Brockdorf-Rantzau’s reply to Premier Clemenceau at Versailles yesterday. —— '• . “With studied insolence and contemptuousness he remained seated when speaking,” the paper adds. “Allied delegates called it an intolerable outrage.” William A. Hughes, the Premier of Austria, said, according to a Reuter dispatch: “The attitude of Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau was an intolerable insult.” William F. Massey, Premier of New Zealand, said: “The Germans were more impudent and aggressive than anything I have ever met.”