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Show SHIP WHISTLES RIPA10SPHERE Vast Chorus Split Air When Glad Newt Comet j to Fleet. Correspondence of the Associated- Pros I LONDON, Nov. 11. A vsjbI chorus of siren whistles from a thousand I ft ch tins; ships split tho air when the ' Kritlsh ifrand fleet received the news ' f the slgnlnsr of the armistice. First ; the thirty-mile line of vessels sprang1 . into HKht. Then, suddenly, the treat fleet of battleships, cruisers, torpedo rirstrnyrs, mine layers and patrols : united In one huge, synchronised dlap I son that startled the hearers for a radius ra-dius of 100 miles. The tremendous sound reechoed anions, the hills on both shores, awesome in Its intensity. A hundred searchlights, which for four years had resolutely watched the skies, or peered steadfastly along- dark waters for enemy craft, merrily crisscrossed criss-crossed about the sky. Klares were lit, stsr shelU fired and here and there aome of the greater ships were fortu-j fortu-j Date In a firetrks display. For sixty minutes the fleet threw off all reserve and let Itaetf go. At I 'o'clock the sir'-ns suddenly silenced, the light snapped out and the grand fleet waa afc-am waiting and w at chins; and ready, and scarcely had the last sounds died away than from the admirals' ad-mirals' ships there were winking- at the max t head the orders for further rintv. |