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Show I IwhMthefleet I j CELEBRATED I; Whistles on a Thousand Ships Split the Air and Flares I Were Lit. V LONDON", Nov. 31. (Correspondence 'of the Associated Press) A vast chorus of siren whistles from a thousand thou-sand fighting ships split the air when the British grand fleet received the news of the signing of the armistice, pirqt the thirty-mile line of vessels ; sprang Into light. Then, suddenly, , tue great fleet of battleships, cruisers, torpedo destroyers, mine-layers and : natrols united in one huge, synchronized synchron-ized diapson that startled the hearers or a radius of a hundred miles. The tremendous sound re-echoed amongst the hills on both shores, awesome in i its intensity. A hundred searchlights, which for four years had resolutely watched the efcjcs or peered steadfastly along dark waters for enemy craft, merrily crisscrossed criss-crossed about the sky. Flares were jit, star shells fired, and here and j there some of the greater ships were i fortunate in a fireworks display. 1 For sixty minutes the fleet threw ' off all reserve and let itself go. At nine o'clock the sirens suddenly si- I lenccd, the lights snapped out and the -rand fleet was again Availing and 1 watching and ready, arid scarcely had tho last Bounds died away than from the admiral's ships there were winking wink-ing at the masthead the orders for fur- . ther duty. |