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Show London Celebrates Signing of the Versailles Treaty LONDON', Juno 28 London learned of the signing of tho peace treaty at Versailles at 3 40 o'clock The news became known through the firing of i guns which had been installed during the war to warn the city of air raids. They now were used as harbingers of the long-awaited peace. The moving throngs came to a halt when the first report was heard. The I tension lasted only a few seconds Then the people gave themselves up to a celebration of the event. Flag sellers did a brisk trade. Thoir wares were bought eagerly and were thrown to the breeze by the cheering thousands. thou-sands. The great bells of St. Paul's cathedral ca-thedral and Westminster Abbey and virtually all the churches of the me- tropolis added to the din Bands of boy scouts engaged in their usual afternoon marching, put even more than customary force into the blow. Ing of bugles and the beating ot drums. |