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Show ! WORLD PEACE HAS I COME AT UST 9 I Armistice Terms Signed Last 1 Monday Morning, Hostilities 1 Ceased at 11 A. M. I GERMANS AND ALLIES MINGLE THEIR CHEERS FalM Report of Peace and Premature Celebration in Cedar City Rob Real Event of Some of Ita Zest and Enthuaiaam. PARIS, Monday, Nov. 11. When dawn came this morning there was no hint of the cessation of hostilities. East of the Meuse, regardless of the situation, the American second army attacked in force at 8 o'clock. The onslaught was preceded by tremendous tremend-ous barrage, which was returned in kind by the enemy. For three hours the Americans swept forward, hurling hurl-ing themselves against the wire entanglements. en-tanglements. The German gunfire was devasting. Then, at exactly at one minute to eleven, el-even, like a final thunder crash at the elearing of a storm, the guns on both ides abruptly ceased. The silence was more startling than the deafening roar of the barrage. For a brief minute min-ute intermittent rifle fire followed, then came a pause, punctuated by ripping cheers from the trenches on both sides of the line. What followed on one sector was perhaps one of the most singular events of the war. Against the sky line figures were suddenly silhoutted. They appeared cautiously at first, but soon, growing bolder all along the line they' stood upright. These were Germans. Ger-mans. Roar of Voices Rises. The Americans were not so cautious. As the barrage died, ending in a final husky rumble in the distance from the big guns, runners went springing along the fire line. Instantly comprehending compre-hending the whole line of doughboys leaped from trenches, fox holes and shell craters, splitting the unaccustomed unaccus-tomed silence with a shrill cheer. The . roar of voices was like an outburst at some college contest in America when a contestant scores a clasic play. Strange to relate, the defeated enemy en-emy joined vociferously in the cheering cheer-ing as the world war was finished. At one minute before eleven it would have meant deatli to show one's head above shelter. Not more than a minute after the hour the rolling plain was alive with cheering, shouting shout-ing men, friend and enemy alike. Not many minutes later Germans and Americans were coming along the narrow nar-row stretch of ground so fiercly fought over, some shyly and awkwardly, like embarrassed schoolboys. Cigarettes Offered Huns. The first advances followed by of-1 fers from the Americans of cigarettes chocolates and chewing gum. The Germans in some places reciprocated with offers of hot coffee, bread and sausage. The orders forbidding fraternizing were strict, but the novelty of the situation sit-uation at times overcame prudence and doughboys surreptuously visited near-' by enemy dugouts. Among the barbed wire at a road crossing, some dough-, boys and Germans began a brisk bar- j tcr of souvenirs. The Germans were bewildered by the number of Ameri- I cans speaking German. "Sure, my old man was born in Germany," laughingly remarked one stalwart private. "That's nothing," said another, "My mother and father were both born . there." Only Wish to Get Home. A middle aged landstrumer exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Yes, the wiir is finished, thank the food God. My only wish is to get back to Germany." .. A slender pink-cheeked machine gunner said: "Yes, I know the kaiser has abdicated." abdi-cated." Instantly a young aristocrat raised his voice. "There will be no revolution in Germany; a new emperor wijl suc- An uproar immediately arose. The -peakcr was drowned out by protesting protest-ing voices. Then the Hermans began offering the Americans such news and I gossip as they knew. The approach I of an officer broke up the conversations. conversa-tions. Hermans Celebrate Peace. Tonight the Germans are celebrating celebrat-ing peace along the lines by firing flares, rockets and signal lights. The night is uproarous with cheering. The victorious Americans are tak. ing is more calmly. Along the front ' the majority of them are getting a ' good night's sleep. Behind the lines In towns brilliantly ' lighted for the first time in four years I French and Americans are parading the streets arm in arm, singing the Marsellaise, the Star-Spangled Banner Ban-ner and French and American war songs. |