The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-19

 MUNICH CELEBRATES .THEFALL OF WARSAW Hundred Thousand Gather
 in Square and Sing fs-- sestn TYPICAL OF BAVARIA 6neued With HvmnS erJ EoIlo-aJ
TYPICAL OF BAVARIA
Opened With Hymns and Followed With National Airs-Three Cheers
 for Rulers of Countries AL = lied With Germany

Munich, August -(Correspondence of the Associated Press. .)-The war has. for the time being, united Ger many Into one solid body, but different from the Saxons and the Saxons dif- ferent from the Bavarians. If chance takes one from Berlin to Munich just as great victory is being celebrated. for instance, the full significance of the difference is apparent. 4H
 The fall of Warsaw and Ivangorod was announced in Munich on Thursday, August 4. and in half an hour every street in the Bavarian capital was bril- lianr with the German. Austrian, Hun garian and Turkish flags. and with the colors of the various German states. the blue and white of Bavaria predomi- hating.
 That Is approximately all any other city in Germany did, partly because the rest of Germany is rather intensely practical and not given to wasting time over celebrations. But the Bavarian nature had to have more than ,colored flags for an outlet. Not only It's in- tense patriotism, but its deeply relig- ious side had to display itself.
 Accordingly, the next evening. the majestic Koenigsplatz, flanked by i'm posing buildings and containing stand : Ing room for over 100. 900 persons, was filled to overflowing with devout throng
 Over 100000 Gather in Square
 Punctually, as all things in Germany are, great military band flared from the steps of the art exposition building -but the air was not a patrioting song,
 It was an old hymn. Overhead in the twilight hummed six war aeroplanes.
 The vast crowd barred its head and look up the words of the hymn, Great Bod, We Praise Thee. The music rose hnd swelled until 1t could be heard n every part of Munich. The throng, hplifted and all but carried away by he fervor of It's feeling, also sang the re Deum. Still the aeroplanes wheeled Above. the setting sun glinting on the lower sides of the planes and illumi- 1ating the sinister iron crosses that bach carried as a distinguishing mark.
 The opening of the celebration with. hymns was not accidental; 1t was typ cal of Bavaria. Religious feeling and pirit took and take precedence even Pver an intense patriotism. The Bava- Ian soldiers in Catholic northern France have more nearly bridged the Eulf between themselves and the na- i've population by their piety than any (ther group of troops, and this piety md God-fearing spirit is a part of their
 aily life at home.
 Three Cheers for Rulers
 For few brief moments the Ober- Ruergermeister or first mayor of Mu- Rich spoke to his. fellow citizens in A &oice that rang clear across the huge /quare. At his command. a ''Hochr That, rent the air went up three times epehted, to the honor of Emperor WYE
 an} King Ludwig and Emperor Fran lis Joseph
 The band swung fin again at just the Hght moment. and the crowd, hats way Ing, exuberant with enthusiasm. sang
 he Pavarian national anthem: Hail D Our King, Hail." The tune is that f America. and the German "Heil dir h Siegerkranz." impressive exactly the ratio of the number singing. md. Deutschland. Ueber Alles." came ext. followed by 'Die Yacht am khein." And then the crowd concluded Is celebration with an o1d-fashioncd png of thanksgiving. fl The songs over, that portion of the |fowd that could. went slowly to the |Hlace of old King Ludwig and waited |Ikneath the balcony until be appeared Ihd spoke to them. q Munich Is possibly the only German dty that has really celebrated a mo- tble victory in such way. Certainly | II is the only one that to any degree | |hs injected the religious element into |ts greeting of victory The Sexplana- | lon can lie only in the essential diff krence in the Bavarian character-l ecause. as a Munich official quaintly | Uit it, "the sky looks a little bluer to | : Bavarians than to other Germans"