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Show jSOLDIERS CHEER ACTION OF II. S, I I j Intense Gratification Over En- I try of Americans Into War I ojn Western Front. Imen preparing signs I Telling Germans of News From Washington Troops ' Eager to Buy Papers. (From a Staff Correspondent of the j Associated Press) With the., British Armies in France, April G. Via London, Lon-don, April 7. The news of the action of the United States senate in voting for war with Germany reached the j far-flung western battle line today and was hailed with cheers. Nowhere was i the gratification greater than along J the section of the front held by the Canadians, with whom many thousands thous-ands of Americans are serving. Many Canadian and British companies were busy today preparing signs to hold up over the trenches, telling the Germans Ger-mans the tiding from Washington. This is tho favorite plan of the Tommies Tom-mies to convey all sorts of bad news to their enemies across No Man's Land. j German prisoners taken today had not heard of President Wilson's address ad-dress and knew only in a vague way 1 of the breaking off of diplomatic relations rela-tions in February'. Some of the trench i signs which were prepared included a brief translation into German of the president's statement that America was entering tho lists against the German Ger-man government and not against the German people. Others included thr latest slogan: "No peace with the Ilohenzollerns," while still others read: "Got rid of your kaiser." Best News In Months. Tho British army as a whole has regarded America as practically in the war ever since the severance of relations, re-lations, the news of which was greeted greet-ed as the best news which had reached reach-ed tho trenches for many months. It was said then that active participation participa-tion was only a matter of time. The . president's addresB was just reaching I the front trenches today in its entlre-! entlre-! ty. Tho gist of the speech had been sent out by wireless and also by telegraph tel-egraph and telephone, but the soldiers 'generally preferred to wait for congressional con-gressional action before spreading tho news to "Fritz." On their way back from tho front trenches today the troops who had been relieved eagerly bought two days' old London papers from the French . newsboys, in order to read the Anier- lean news and tho text of the president's presi-dent's speech. In the little French estaminets, cafes and villages behind the lines there was great excitement among tho old civilians and tho poil-us poil-us on leave. Ono old gray haired Frenchman, waving a bit of writing paper, said he waB sending the good news to his son in the trenches so as to be suro he would not miss it. Renewed Confidence at Front. The weight of America thrown Into the scales Just at this juncture in what Is rogardod as the critical year of the struggle, lias sent a renewed thrill of confidence all along the front. One could sense It everywhere today. Visiting Canadian headquarters headquar-ters and the Canadian trenches tho 1 correspondent was greeted everywhere every-where with outbursts of congratulations. congratula-tions. One young captain, whose mother is an American, said: "I feel like hugging everybody in sight. Everywhere Ev-erywhere I have been todny I wanted to call out tho soldiers and ask them If they had heard the good news. Wo Canadians now feel that our American Ameri-can family has been re-united. This will mean wonders for the future relationship rela-tionship of Canada and the United States. Wc feel more like brothers than ever before." There was much speculation along the front as to the manner of American Am-erican participation and an almost universal uni-versal wish that the United States X Continued, on Page 6 ), S0LDIEK8 CHEER " AcnraoF i. s. (Continued From Tago 1) should bo represented on the fighting lino at tho earliest possible moment, If only by a brigade or division. Mingled with tho universal deslro that tho war should soon be ended was tho generally expressed hope that it would last long enough to give tho jVmerl-enns jVmerl-enns a chanco at the Germans. |