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Show CELEBRATE PEACE IN TIME IJF WAR AMERICAN8 OBSERVE ONE HUN- DREDTH ANNIVER8ARY OF SIGNING OF GHENT TREATY. Had Been Planned to Hold Celebration Celebra-tion In Ghent, But Ancient City Is Now Occupied by the Germans. Now York. Tho pcoplo of tho Unltod States and Great Britain observed ob-served Dccomber 24 ns tho ono hundredth hun-dredth nnnlvorsary of tho signing of tho treaty of Ghent, by reminding thomsolvos that tho day marks a century of poaco among English-speaking English-speaking nations. Tho original plans called for a series se-ries of celebrations In this country and acrosB tho water. It was to have begun in Ghent on Christmas ovo with a banquet tendered by tho burgomaster burgomast-er to fifty roprosontntlveB of tho United States, fifty Englishmen and fifty Canadians in tho hall whero the treaty was signed, but this Is upset by tho fact that tho ancient Belgian city is now occupied by tho GormanB, with whom England Ib at war. To mark tho day, tho Amorlcan committee com-mittee and tho British commltteo, which havo been arranging for tho peace centenary, issued communications communica-tions for simultaneous publication Thursday morning In tho newspapers in England and tho Unltod States. Tho British statement expresses the hopo that "tho disarmed frontier between be-tween tho United States and Canada may long contlnuo as an example to the world of tho safo defenso of mutual mu-tual respoct and trust In the affairs of nations," and prays that the "poaco bojtwoen tho British and American democracies which has long endured may never bo broken." Tho British poaco centenary commltteo com-mltteo has purchased Sulgravo manor, tho ancestral homo of George Washington, Wash-ington, In England, which was tdbo prosentod to tho American people. This and other features of tho celebration cele-bration aro to bo postponed until after tho war. |