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Show BRITISH WANT TD MAKE NOV. 11 HOLIDAY Worldwide Observance of Armistice Anniversary Is Proposed.. j By Harold. E. Bechtol European Manager of N. E. A. I LONDON, Nov. Si. British newspapers , and officiate are utuuilmoasly support-1 support-1 Ing a movement to make November II a world holiday a joouo Thanksgiving day forever. The movement Is' fathered by Donald Mr Muter, member of parliament. The city now ta wreathed In smiles Its people go about their dally tanks, a great burden lifted. Kverybody Is look-Ing look-Ing to the peaceful future, planning for tha day when the boya will return, reconstructing re-constructing the business life and their home life on an after the war basis. The night of November ll waa tha first night since early In the war that It waa poaalble to see faces on the streets of London. That night the lights shone on faces aglow all over London. All London was one big smile. Kvery-where Kvery-where tt was one delirious song. Everybody was wearing a banner, "It's Tie... '" Everybody was singing. "Pack Up Tour Troublea in Tour Old Kit bag and Smile." One minute before II. the etreeta were comparatively deserted, though newsies were yelling their peeee ex (ran, Then, at 11. as the hat tie fronts foil quiet biTf boom! bang' the racket started throughout th jit$4 THRONGS POUR INTO STREETS. Thouaands poured from heaven, knows were human rivers, banked by masses of fisgs. Taxis, trucks snd busses were commandeered com-mandeered by crowds of men. Girls, bareheaded, climlted atop, their legs dangling dan-gling over, shouting, singing and waving wav-ing madlv. The drivers joined in, steering steer-ing anywhere. Soldiers and gfrls danced on the atreeta In a delirium of Joy. The Jubilation grew throughout the day aqd at night the lid was off all lighting light-ing and closing restrictions. "Hang lora." read a popular banner; for rvra Is the British slang for the defense of the relm act. under which restrictions of wartime wei imposed. I went down into the east end. The streets seemed deserted, though women were laughing and crying everywhere. MOTHERS WEE TEARS OF JOY. I found Mrs. Rdlth Robinson, teara streaming down her cheeks, waving frantically fran-tically at a passing bus. I "I'm crying like a fool. T am." she said. ! "I can't help but be happy, you can believe be-lieve me. when I tell you I've got a son out there. One Is gone three years ago. But the boy that ia left now Is sure to come home. "Jjst think! Right now It's quiet out there. '"'''"'f rA imnf. tht, the good God' I suppose It will be a long time before my toy gets hack, but what does It matter when I m sure he'll come home' I Not a ripple wsa caused here when the first of Britain's enemies let go of the war. Not a ripple waa caused hy the collapse of Germany's allies which sealed the fate of the Hun. When newa of the kaiaer'a abdication came, the Britisher Brit-isher merely carried on. But the news that the armistice had put sn end to killing wss the word that loosed the pentup emotions of long and weary yes re. The wife of an American offlrlsl who has been here since early In the war has not yet recovered from the shock. Hhe says: "And I thought the British were phlegmatic. phleg-matic. Gee whit!" |