Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-19
WHOLE CITY OF LILLE
IN DEL|R|UN OF JOY
Most Touching spectacles Enacted
Is AL Shed Tears OF
Happiness.
TREMENDOUS DEMONSTRATIONS
People Yell Themselves A,arso in
Frenzy OF Delight When Told
President Wilson Had Demanded
Kaiscr's Elimination.
ny Associated prsss.l


PARIS, October Isl have lust
witnessed the most touching spectacle
Of my life. The whole city in a de-
lirium Of joy. was ready to throw IT.
self upon US. the first to enter Lille
tclegraphz the war correspondent of
the Petit Journal. from that city.
Tonight at o'clock, near Armcn-
there's. an officer shouted TO us Lille
is taken We speeded our automobile
on the road of victory. Two miles. from
Lille two young girls ran out i'm front
OF our automobile. crying amid sobs
of JOY. They have gone; they have
gone. Vivent les Anglais; vive la
France
"Wo went a little further and then
. huge shell hole Obliged us to aban-
don 7ur machine aud proceed on foot:
the city 10 meet their dclivcrers SOONER.
cried. while tears streamed down their
checks, They won't come
a crowd, every. member of which was
weeping, seized US. One man climbed
on our sho llders.
Another shouted to us, My name is
Germans offered mo a million to be
tray my country. The towards, The
cowards"' and then he burst into sob
bling.
Carried by the crowd. we arrived
don stood at the door. When we en-
An old man With viii { hair stood with
a violin at the top of the grand stair
case and played the, .Marseillaise.' ont
side the crowd seethed like a sea. we
motherland.
W., SNEAK, speak to us they. cried;
our Victory. w shout went ano u 1o'd that at
filled the city. we told of the Bull
garian capitulation.. Again the cheers
rang out We told Of the Turks
crowd cheered. Then We told them
that President Wilson had refused TO
grant an nEmistiee and demanded En-
frenzy. tossed everything it could lay
hands on int the air.
AT the prefecture the acting pre-
there was fresh outburst of cheering
from the crowd. 1t was for Mayor Del
sale and for his son, French ohl-
Ger Of the Legion of Honor. and wear
city had been freed. He o' iea ped into nhe
ing. he rushed home 70 his father.
His was the first French uniform
the liberated citizens had seen. and
the sight C It increased their de-
There remain 10000 inhabitants in
Lille. The Germans had carried off
all the male pop li7tion of more than
fourteen years of age. The city is not
greatly damaged, and tile public build
ings are intact
PARIS DISPLAYS FLAGS,
RECEIVING NEWS WITH JOY
News OF :he deliyerance OF Lille
spread rapidly in Paris. arousing deep
and quiet Joy. Flags were hung out
on all sides. and crowd of refugees
from tho Lille region paraded to the
Lille statue in the Place de In Con
corde, where they sang the Mar
seillaise" and decorated the statue with
allied flags.
Numbers of refugees waited most OF
the day Of Thursday at the offices of
the committee IN charge of the refu-
gees of the Departm mt of the Nord on
the chance that news of the evacuation
of Lille would be received. When a
messenger arrived with the glad It'd
ings tears came into the eyes of the
refugees. and many Of them wept.
At most OF the theaters the managers
announced the news TO the audiences
which rose and sang the "Marseillaise"