St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1919-01-02
A Graphic Story OF The End
from "'s'he Stars aMl
Stripes
THE AMERICANS
HELD A 77-Mn.E LINE
Even the Germans Troops
Were Glad II Was
All Over

shoulders, the machine guns grew
sill. There followed q strange, uli'
!,elicvnbie silence IAN though the woilt
had died. 1t lasted but moment
lasted for The space thai Il breath i:
held. Then came st;ch I'm uproar o.
:clcf and iubilance, such u footing OF
horns, shrieking Of whistles, such M
overture from the hands ard train!
and church bells, such Il shouting OF
voirrv rs the earth il not likely X
l4rAr again in cur tluy and generation
When night fell IN the battlefield
he clnmor OF the celebration w:lxoc
.:lthel. than waued. Darkness? Their
~as none. Rockets and IL consoles.
contain of star shells made the lines
It streak of glorious brilIinnce across
The face Of startled France, while, by
The light Of fires, the front and Ill itf
dancing. bcAsting, singing peoples
WAS ~ clearly visible as though The
nm SIT high it the heavens.
Che mnn trom Mars, coming ,H
eNlth o.. thG morning OF Novembel
II, l1l%, could have been hard put
to il to at.y which army had won, for
i anything, The create celebration
Ind nl@.e StaitIing out burst, c.tme moi
from the American but from the Ger.
man aiic. At least he could have
Soid---,tl;at MAN from Mars--to which
side the a,arcnsien OF hostilites had
ccn,e ~ tht. greater rt'lief.
We news hGgan 10 spread acrces
tho f,pnt shortly aftt.' The sun lo.'c.
Theri- ~ NGtta O. li;i of IN qiiott
70 sent il To ward only through. ni.ti-
talE Gllf,'ii,l:, tn tnFn the ctnT> l"-
pts;t II calmly by :, re to the divisions,
thu Aiv ions to the hrigades, lht hi
ul,hs 10 the regiments, the regiments
- .ec hatt;lion", ard - on down to
itr ii 4rnltst >quittt, tiuhG us though
th Wa, an ordinary nr'ler and MOTH
in, TO ut excited about.
Theit VAS the GIi'nrc. But II did
not @o,-i,, very wei! The t9nrd wiz
spl4 ON sa.. i.-l.i of !piFel,a that n'on
hne,A ,n+sfN fpnuriA:. h4tnrc hiarconi
Gsta,e on 1altn, 4ttsapf@ad like cur
rent of elcetriity A,ang the shivery
noSH lines, hal.ping w and lawn and
shifting sSnd srtttf'isg as they waited
for the ,hcirinf, coffee. 1t spread
along thu chains Of singing road
members. ,.lonE The creeping columns
OF eanlioils. Driver called it to driver
amt runners tossed the word over
their ,htttiders an they hurried by.
Now and again /, tiart OF motorcycles
would whiZZ along through tho heavy
mist. 49,.
"Thc euerye viii be fnec 1T II
O'Clock A9Eihcc An Rucirc." -
You couiti hear ii called Cut again
and again.
What time" d"
= "l,lcvcn o'clock"
IA Pause.
Say, you, what time is 1t now"
They took it. q little incrcdulously
at first, That was old stuff, TINT
,umol.
They had heard it again and arain
during the past fortnight.
"Well, the captain says it's so"
"Hcn, who's he? III wait till
Foch comes and tells me himself"
=. Why, the preceding Thursday night
--thut was the night the ENJOYS came
oveg from the Spa news that what
the douahhoy scclns to prefer calling
il,c"arstimic1" had r~ bern signed
%nrcad, like The Spanish flu from
Ctandpre To the Meusc. "i
That night the flares inaamed tht
skies, the rockets streaked tho night
BANDS hurst into lon9-supresscd inu.
sic, and the headlights twinkled Ill
along the road. 1T did not hast long
thia little unbidden furry, and thor.
was mach sco!ding; but, as a matter
Of fact, nothing much more dcmoral
iztns to the enemy could we'll hav.
been staged than this spectacle of IN
Ftat American Army celebrating
aot,t1hing he. hnd not heard. ats'
hI along the. IT miles held by Tho
Arier4cAus tho iiriuR continued, liter
ally, ll0jo Tho eleventh. hour At on
.minut> before I, when a ,dillion eyci
were glued ~ ttc SLOW creeping min,
ute hands of q million watches, {ths
roar Of the guns was ia thing 10 nuke
the old cart, ,rnInble. At one poini
1t wnH wtere the Yankee division
waiting, At The Tina, with q French
reips, was having byisk morning bat,
tic 10 the cat oftfe S6use, o. mar
statioied at one battcfy Stpod with q
handkerchief in his upliftGa hand, hit
eyes fixed on xiv &atciL%s ,lf was one
minute beforH Al. III thealssnyards
OF tho foue biE guns.lbpc weac tied
each fopp planned BY 200 soldiers
cooks, atrGe3glnfs. me5scngtrs, gsal,
mars. cy4'otrhdSi At il the lsand.
krl alriei fell Lheinen nullod, taat As,lns
csarsstls;s lt tll' Just shot OF the nat,
Istetv. Ali 1G4,lt went At " haadi lasl
fatsa ehcreard tlf'".s }laAas tn Mi
" PROBABLY sthe Notwithstanding beiiha
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