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Show 1 500 AMERICANS IN LDNDON IRE BAGK0FWiLS0N President's Message to Con-gvess Con-gvess Is Approved at Meeting; 'Star Spangled Banner' Is Sung. EXECUTIVE'S NAME LOUDLY CHEERED British Nevspaper Wants U. S. to Send Brigade as "Visible Pledge and Bond of Union." .T)0., April Americans to the number ot" I'jit'J met tod ay in Queens-town Queens-town hall aii't vote-1 tneit approval ot 'resident Wilson's address to congiess. Waller Hines Payp, the American ambassador; am-bassador; Hethcvt C Hoover, chairman ot' tnp American commission for relief in Belgium, and Robert P. skinner, American consul general at London, wro among prominen t A morgans on the platform. Amonjj the large proportion propor-tion of women present were many in uniforms of tho Red Cross or other war auxiliary organizations. There also was a considerable sprinkling sprink-ling of khaki elad nvn in the audience, as well as several French uuiforms worn hy American?. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Hen-ry W. Thornton in the uniform and crimson banded cap of a British staff officer occupied a platform scat. Wilson's Name Cheered. Above the platform group hung two American flas aionidu the L'nion Jack and the fiags of other allied nation;. na-tion;. There were no speeches except that of the chairman in intro luciug the resolution reso-lution and the meeting lasted only twenty twen-ty minutes. Cheers greeted the name of President Wilson and the announcement of the senate's action on tno war resolution. reso-lution. At the close, after the singing of the ''St-ar Spangle J Banner' ' and "My Countrv, Tis of Thee, ' ' the women in the gallir called for throe cheers for President Wilson, which wer given wit h t re mend on 5 enthusiasm, followed by thre1 move for Colonel Theodore ftoo.evelt. .and three lor France. American Legion Pleased. Xo group of Americans anywhere has creetoa with vater "'ntluisiasm President Presi-dent Wilson's a. 1 dress and the senate's action in de-'iaiing a state of war le-twefn le-twefn the United States and Germany than tho 7HH members of the so-called nw Amenum lion in the three Canadian Ca-nadian bfi tt a lions encamped nar London. Lon-don. These gaiint fighters, drawn from ail parrs of tho Cnitd States, have been in trainig in Kn:;ai'd since their arrival iroiu ' ar.ada earlv in January. They enmc fired with the anihituui, which they fed has ben vindicated by Anierica's action, to overthrow Prussian militarism, and with love of the flag which they belire stands for freedom. 45fi in Battalion. The mK-ritv or th?f AmrKan? are io a baTalion which boosts of their number out of a total membership of 7-'x The remainder of the Americans sr scattered in the other battalions. Xews of America's action reached the epmp through the medium of newspaper? newspa-per? and by telephone from London, and the men disease. i it eagerly. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Colonel William Sage, " a former w York mining engineer, who is com-Tan-iing, said the decision of the United Unit-ed States had an electrifying effect upon the men, who wee going through faining now with' greater vim ad enthusiasm than ever. Asks for U. S. Forces. The S-ectator, d i nsi r.cj the military aspect of American intervention in the war. appeals for rue immediate dispatch of a small American force to this side as a "visible pledge and bond of union. un-ion. ' ' A single brigade would he enough," it says. euture to sav that if an American brigade marched 'through the -t of London before re-err: ba:!iin2 :"'. I'"ran--f- rir bo.-ei '.vo..!d a.mo-t ! r-::i'-;. w :tu tr.e cr.'-ciir:;. ' ' l |