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Show Claims Commander at Brest Made Announcement of Signing Armistice. NEW YORK. Nov. S. The United Press today published this explanation of how it came to circulate yesterday its report that the armistice "had been signed and that lighting had onded: "NEW YORK, Nov. S. Ycstorday'fi announcement of tho signing of the armistice between Germany and the allies was made by Admiral Wilson at Brest and was filed to the United Press with the admlrnl's approval. This in-' formation was received by the United, Press in a cablegram from Roy W. Howard shortly before noon today. j "Practically at the same time an-1 other message from Howard was do- livered to the United Press stating that Admiral Wilson mado the announce-' nient at Brest at -i p. m., French time, but that later he was notified that It was not conflrnmble. This later message mes-sage filed by Howard did not show, in tho form in which it was delivered, whether It wns sent yesterday or how long it had been held up. "Howard's cablegram clearly showed that Admiral Wilson acted in goodi faith, stating that ho supposed the nn-1 nouncement was official and therefore1 gave his approval to the filing of tho i message to the United Press in New; York. "The United Press vtoday asked 'the! government to ascertain how long I Howard's message stating that Admiral Ad-miral Wilson authorized the announcement announce-ment and also that ho later was notified noti-fied that It was unconflrmable were held up by the censors. "There was reason to believo that the message stating that the news was unconflrmable was badly delayed In! I view of the fact that it was not received receiv-ed here until almost 2-1 hours after the original cablegram. Tho messages received re-ceived today from Howard were as fol-1 lows : " 'United Press, New York. I " 'Paris Urgent Brest Admiral ' Wilson who announced Brest newspaper news-paper 1C00 (-1 p. m.) armistice been signed, .later notified unconflrmable meanwhllo Brest riotously celebrating. " 'Howard Sirams.' "The other message read: ! " 'United Press, New York. : " 'Brest Urgent armistice bulletin! based local announced (announcement?) (announce-ment?) by Admiral Wilson, admiral ! supposing official was filed with admiral's ad-miral's approval local newspaper bulletined bul-letined Brest celebrated night long. " 'Howard.' "It will be noted that the first message mes-sage quoted was signed by tho names of both Howard and Simms and was filed through the Paris office in the same form as the message received yesterday In every way this first quoted quot-ed message indicates that it was probably prob-ably filed very quickly after the original origi-nal bulletin. oo |