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Show YANKS-LEAD-PEACE PARADE THROUGH VERDUN ! Entire City Is Blaze of Glory at Receipt of Great Newt. By Associated Press. VERDUN. Nov. 12.-- Verdun rame Into Its own last night. While the be! la of the ancient cathedral were Angina; the news of peace, the fortress city was illuminated and a military procession, headed by the drum corps of the Twenly-alxth American division, di-vision, swung alone; the crowded streets, accompanied by a detachment of French buglers representing the famed defenders of Verdun. The procession wound Its way through the afreets lighted by flares and varicolored signal lights sent off by Infantrymen. The entire city was In a great tvaxe of glory and the )) luminMtion was visible for many miles around, even to the Hermans going " hoim-w ard HI the cast. t-hind the buglers marched a shouting, singing and dunclng column of French, American, Amer-ican, tSenegttleee and Algerian soldiers and civilian celebrants, keeping time with the drum beats and shouting: "The war la over! Vive la France! Vive rAmertque!" The marchers paraded until they were tired, the bell ringers rang the chimes until they were .exhausted, and the i tares burned tfaemaelvea out. And late at night the American and French soldiers and the handful of faithful civilians In Verdun went to sleep In peace. |