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Show If GERMAN'S CLOSE j) BIO CELEBRATION Twenty Bands Play and Twenty Thousand Sing "Die Wacht Am Rhein." St. Louis. Mo, Oct. 10. Twenty bauds playing "Die Wacbt am Rhcin". twenty thousand German-American murehers, singing It, and well night t hundred thousand wp.TLatori-, Cbeertng It. lormi'd the climax last night to the week-long celebration oi the one-hundredth anniversary of the war of liberation, at the conclusion Of which the Germans threw off the yoke of Napoleon The torchlighl parade was about ten miles long and was more than an hour in p.tssing. Automobiles, mill tary organization?, turn verelns, Blng-ing Blng-ing societies, fraternal lodges and th? state's National Guards, each had ,1 diisIon in the demonstration Been marcher carried a red, white and blue, or red. sii,r and black flag or lighted paper lantern. The black eagle of Germany screamed In unison with the bald eagie of America. Ameri-ca. Several elaborate rioats pictured historical scenes of the war of libpr.v lion and the proprcss of the Germans since then. no |