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and choored aul cheered. The Lord Mayor spoke he raised his hat, and the Growd cheered again, fla

There was no maffic in the cheer. It was heartfelt, and it was followed by &mighty burst of song, of sacred song, the swelling, glorious chords of the Doxology;

"Now thank we all our God,

With bearts and hands and voices" From the distant onthedral came a peal of joybells. Up from the Thames came the hooting of tuge, a hint of that distant sen power that won the war,

THE GLADDEST DAY IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY HOW LONDON RECEIVED THE NEWS OF THE ARMISTICE. London rejoiced yesterday from the bot tom of her heart (says the Daily Express of November 12th, but feelings were tou deeply stirred, the happiness of a people blessed after four years with peace was

Flags were everywhere from nowhere too great at first to find expression in cheers. Even when the King and Queen They waved on sticks, they fluttered from The were thecrod at Buckingham Palace there fingers. They were bound round bats

They were worn as neckerchiefs. was still a note in the raised voices of a drab groyness of the London orowd Delt

ed, as in a transformation scene, into people keyed to the highest pitch of enrict of red and white and blue, in stripes, durance and determination, and not light in crosses, and in stars.

Yellow and black and red, the colours ly to be led into an ephemeral enthusiasm,

of Belgium, Boated suddenly amid the Downing-street by half-past ten

crowd-a reininder. filled by a quiet crowd who waited for the Premier. Mr. Balfour, however, was the

Twenty-dive minutes by the cluck that irst Minster of the Crown to appear,soene went on. it was a solid, sturdy and the well-known form and smiling face, thanksgiving by solid, sturdy vitizens, framed in the doorway of No. 10, were who for four years have kept their feelings The the strain longer, the crowd gave way to greeted by a roar of welcome that spokender, strict control; then, unable to bear of the tension in every heart,

The steps of St. Paul's Cathedral held a Foreign Secretary was obviously moved, sheer unadulterated merrymaking.

A con and advanced swiftly across the road to

stunt trickle of people, some black-clad. shake hands, imrcheaded. with those swaying, compact, bappy crawd within reach.

some in khaki, some in blue, passed up They passed through the serried ranks. through the cheerers and through the ever swinging doors into the dim hush, with bowed heads and fuli hearts, towards the

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they twos of an enthusiastic crowd, who insisted on a speech. Standing bareheaded in one af the doorways, Mr. Balfour said:---

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"Peace was signed at five this morn ing," he declared, and fighting will case at eleven o'clock." He escaped into the Colonial Office, passing through it to the park, where he was

" IT IS OVER.

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The day greyed and darkened. A low The November mist clung to the Thames. clouds wept. But London laughed.

stepped unobtrusively aside into the ever. welcoming chairs and slipped swiftly to their knces. There was no set service, but No

men and women came to pray in their cannot make you a speech. words of mine could rise to the height own way in their hundreds all the morn

You and your of this great occasion

world. children and your children's children will, in the heart of the cheering business The orowds, moving glad-eyed along the remember this day, when right. triumphed over might and victory was assured over streets, grew and grew. Laverpool-aires slations emitted mass upon as thas the forces of evil.

added to the swelling tide From Ongar and from lampstead, from Seven Kings When the Premier appeared he was at and Ealing, the population of the might once the centre of a cheering, laughingest city poured into that city's heart to gathering of friends. He tried to speak, but the cheers drowned his voies. He waved his hand above his head, and flaga and handkerchiefs and hats answered his gesture. There was no happier smile in ull London yesterday than the Premier's, and there was exultation and joy in his It is over! They voice when be

gried: have signed The war is won!"

At eleven o'clock the Union Juck was hoisted over Downing-street, maroons were sent off, and the All clear was sounded from the plinth of Nelson's column and at other centres. Dense crowds on the Horse Guards Parade, in Trafalgar square, along the Mall, and before Buck- ingham Palace answered the signals with rounds of ringing cheers, while on the roofs of the Whitehall buildings lines of waving figures were silhouetted against the sky.

The Stock Exchange made a pretenco only of doing business after the members crowding the floor had sung the Old Hundredth and the National Anthem and given rousing cheers for the King. Sir Douglas Baig, Marshal Foch, the fighting forces, and the Allies. Among the many distinguished guests of the House for the occasion were the Governor. Deputy-Gov- eraur, and Controller of the Bank England.

WITH A BANU.

The West End had its brat tidings with a Bang

The bang was a maroon fired by the R.A.F. From the roof of the Hotel Cecil. Then The sauntering people came to a stand, and looked about expeétantly

"Until now it seemed as if the peopi were reluctant to believe, but as the crowds steadily moved towards Bucking, ham Palace a new and pleasant note of, came another bang, and soon afterwards. There was no doubt laughter, of assurance and of joy made bang upon bang.

way over! People Gordon Highlanders, about it the war itself felt. Four beating battered biscuit tins and a dis- stood about for a while, vaguely smiling reputable dustbin. marched down the Mall and wandering whether anybody else to the Palace gates' singing Rule, Bri-would do anything and what, in such tannia."It was a spark to the, peat-up enthusiasm of the people, and, to a chorus strange creamstances, was the real thing

to of hooting motor horns, racing engines,

The girls and the women solved the and tin trampets the fine, boastful old words were roared by a thousand throate problem. A long line of motor cars and Dignified ladies, driven slowly by cock Vans stood outside the Cocil. The girl old drivere seized their motor horns and aded coachmen, were addressed as dear" and ked if they were down sirens, and made a screeching and hoot- heart.d. They assured the crowd they ing that almost drowned the bangs of the Away down the! were not, and burst their gloves in frantic minute-gua maroons. clapping.

A big foree of American Strand through Trafalgar square and Boldiers and sailors, carrying two enor Flect-street, Whitehall and the Baymar-

Stars and Stripes es alle would.

ket, Victoria-street and Piccadilly, all carry an out-spread sheet, were cheered over the City, and all over London, every again and again,

motor-horn and tiren screamed and hoot. Chev What are we here for, boys?

cú. No New Year was ever welcomed cried. We are here to show the little!

with such a screech. They were: old King that we are happy." happy, and their Rah Rah Rah pune tuated from time to time the deeper cheers of the British.

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Bhortly before one the music of the Guards Band was beard, and expectancy run high; then the King and Queen, accompanied by Princess Mary, appeared on the balcony, his Majesty in the uni form of an admiral, and looked down on

sea of cheerinWhitehall.

eople stretching from His Majesty the the salate while the authem was stood at played, but before the final chords of which followed, he Rule Britannia, had plucked off his cap and waved it at arm's length above his head, the Queon little Bing she carried meanwhile waving a

The spontaneous gesture went straight to the heart of the crowd, and the fings and handkerebicfs that answered it were like flowers in a sudden wind.

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Within a minute or two overy window in the Strand was open, and thousands of workers in offices looked out. people in shops came out and stood in: clusters at the doors. People on the tops of omnibuses began to stand up and wave their hands.

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Again it was the women and the girls Those in the who gave the initiative. Government offices led the way. They were the first to feel and to act on the impulse to go out into the open air and make a joyful noise. They had never downed type- downed pens " or writere during the war, but now they realised that the war was really over- and they poured into the streets. All the great Government offices in the West End Bung work to the winds for the time.,

Bevics of the R.A.P. girls stood outside: the Hotel Cecil, cheering, others flung handfuls of paper forms out of the windows from every storey. What good

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The band played "Hone, Sweet Home" and a sudden hush fell on that gast Besembly. It was a most moving incident of a great oerasion, and no person there but hud, a sad and tender thought for the war forms now, if not for finging SKIN AND BLOOD DISEASES, sands. They futtered down like giant boys who will never again see home but into the air? So out they nato in thou- who have laid down their lives to make sakes in a snowstorm. The Strand for a our homes secure. When the sweet tun hundred yards was papered with them. ceed the silence remained unbroken at Motor-omnibuses and vans went along the marching song of the "Old Coat showered with them. The crowd gleefully ptibles," the immortal Tipperary

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tom-toms went slowly along no one could hear himself shout, much less laugh or speak.

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