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Show Mons. where they made their first stand. Undoubtedly, many of the men who have gone through the bell of the iast four years would have been glad had the armistice not been signed until they had completely routed the Germans in this sector, which would have been a matter of only a few days. In general, the soldiers in the field hailed the advent of peace with manifestations mani-festations of joy, the Germans being no exception to the rale, in spite of the fact that they had been defeated. The Americans were not so enthusiastic as the English and French, for they had not been so long in the war and were just getting warmed up to the work when the Hun government "blew upM and cried for peace. But the boys from this side of the ocean handled themselves them-selves , well and are being highly praised by both friend and foe. The ''folks at home'' are glad it is all over and that there will be no more lives sacrificed, although they wanted to go on until the victory was won. POETIC JUSTICE. I: was, entirely fitting that the gallant gal-lant British troops should have driven the Hun invaders out of the important itv ofMons before the curtain was rung down on the gre;. wr drama. The comparatively small force of Englishmen, English-men, .Scotchmen, Irishmen and Welshmen, Welsh-men, of which the British regular army was composed at that time, were forced to evacuate this same position in 1914, after battling with overwhelming numbers num-bers of the enemy, led by Field Marshals Mar-shals Von Kluck and Von BtfelOW, Many days of desperate fighting have occurred oc-curred since the " contemptible! " were forced to retreat, and sometimes it seemed a though might, was to prevail against right. Hut the British nevor faltered or lost hope, and the end of the war found them in possession of 1 I |