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Show AMERICAN FLAGS j ARE EVERYWHERE Stars and Stripes Popular With the Girls of London on Armistice Day. LONDON, Nov. 14 Correspondence of the Associated Press) If there Is not friendly feeling toward the United States in England the flags of London speak untruthfully There are millions of flags. Where all of them come from is a mystery. They slmpy appeared from everywhere and nowhere, like a barrage of color on the day when the armistice was signed. No coronation or royal Jubilee has seen such a marvel mar-vel of cloth. Hardly a house, however small and humble, In tho whole more than twenty twen-ty mile radius of the largest city in i the world was without Its decorations. And the Stars and Stripes were more! conspicuous than any flag except the Union Jack. Where ever two flags hung together togeth-er the American emblem was one of them. The French flag ranked next, but only a respectable third. Walking Walk-ing through the streets the American colors saluted the eye everywhere. Big ones, large enough to hide an ordinary or-dinary house, hung in front of hotels, department stores, and factories. Very many people, of the hundreds of thousands thou-sands who tied flags to their hats and coats and umbrellas, even to their dogs, sported the Stars and Stripes, They were particularly popular with the girls, but workmen, old ladies, and British soldiers wore them. This seems to spell appreciation. Some' of the sadder newspapers which specialize in deploring, mourned mourn-ed bitterly over the armistice celebration cele-bration in Trafalgar Square on Nov. 12. "Property was destroyed." This was tho burden of the plaint. It was true. Revellers, chiefly Australian and Canadian soldiers, with a sprinkling of British and a few American accomplices, accom-plices, built a bonfire. They used whatever came to hand. Huge signboards sign-boards around Nelson Monument appealing ap-pealing to citizens to buy war bonds were the first to feed tho flames. Then a wooden hut. the property of the Y. M. C. A. was dragged to the fire. Next came half a dozen German cannon, camouflaged with green, purple and yellow, rushed up with shouting from St. James Park close by. There were many policemen about but they were helpless. The soldiers picked them up and thrust them off the scene. Then the fire engines came out and turned, streams on the blaze. The Australians turned the hose on the astonished firemen and swept them off their feet with their own ammunition. |