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Show Berlin Mob Demands Early Signing of the Peace Treaty- By RICHARD HENRY LITTLE. (C'nica&o Tribune Cable. Copyright.) BERLIN, Mny 21, via Berne and Paris. May -C The greatest demonstration dem-onstration I have ever seen w as held in Berlin this afternoon, v. lien hundreds of thousands of pco- pie pan-ued the j-Mree'-s. demanding that I ilie government siu the peace- terms at j once. I A bout L'OO'OO people ere packed in I the I.ustfe-arten. In front of the kaiser's i p-ilar-e. v here tho Independent .So -ialfstb j held their principal inc-erint;. L" titer u-n j Linden and all t.'.o streets running into j the Lub. rten ere packed wi;n ex-; ex-; cKed people, uhoi-e cry wa.s "Siu-n the I pe; i-e terms. !" "S'ii;n Lnc peace ' crmu !'' f J-lnaee nd many independent .Sc-chiiis ts j spoke, deeirrin tt the only hope for Germany was to t:n the peace terms, ! and they v,ere madly cheerM. The pnvprmnent t rd to bo'd a nn.-et-l in in Wiineimnlal z against fUnine: the jyea.ee. hut re,t raarades o" Independent i ri'-u-iHli'jib marched do-n V," i 1 hel ms! ra sse. rinsing the inter-national revoh.iL:on:i.ry ' hvmn. apd swept the government croad ' entirely a v.-ay. ! "Sign Peace' is Cry. The So'-in iWs r-jma!ned In front of the official rc-hiiTi" of No.-:kc a"d the o;-fi'-'es of ill- Lhf-r government, sine.-!'; and Lhontlnr, "tS'sn iJie pen-e!" "Down wit h Kber t ! ' ' "Do v.- n with N oa k e a v, d Scheideuiann !' "Lei us ha i e peace !' "We want bread, not bullets"' The government seems to be ent in-y overruied by popular sentiment in lis announcement an-nouncement of a de'-islou not to sin tin: pea co terms. It is the opinion tonight in Lierlin that the government will e.xerute a nuick about-face and sign the pe'jce term-'-'. Tire gre.'it popular d firmiif t ra '. ion t ' . i v. afternoon make; It app";r. that u m - - the government does Ill's it nil! he h'.vn, away. The iunnente crowd.-:, ;o-iV"y.'d of men and wmii'- n, were cry orderly, j hut they carried everything before Inum! b-j mere welit of numbers. YcU Themselves Hoarse. The government f-'nciall.'-jt hi TVilhchn-platz, TVilhchn-platz, who had liMened vithout muen animation to the speech of J-v neidcmanii. j suddenly confronted 1 hf grea t Independent Indepen-dent .SO'dahst para.de, whi.i simpiy tiwept. j do 'An on them with l,:e reii.-'ilcs force of a tidal wav e, nrie J ili-'in out of the Vi!hHinplat7. ancJ .-.'t t'l'-ni S'-nf'.ered everywhere, ev-erywhere, v. :i'le I i'e Indn-nci'-Ti i ., wlt v -ing ha i s i, nd ba nncrs, c J 1 j i henu'd-. (.s ho;- rse. There must 'r.a' e h-eri .V'O.nri pcrp)r in the dov. ptov n streets, ail shouting to i I sign he peace Itivs. I Worlinif-ii and poidier.? pfednm jn;t ted m i the crowd, but the bourgeoisie an j upier , j classes e-!fo were n-'irrhing and shoutinyj in favor of the peace icrmcj. |