New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
Greatest Crowd British
Capital Ever Knew
Turns Out to Greet Ar
mics That Beat Germans
10000 Allied
Troops in Line
Day Begins With Thanks
giving in Cathedrals and
Churches Over Empire
By Arthur S. Draper
NoW York Tribune
EurODeu1, R1rent


LONDON, July 19.-Just as the peo-
pie became surfeited with war, so the
pageantry of peace had begun to lose
its fascination. But to-day Britain
gave herself over to rejoicing in
manner fitted to the event.
Victorious in the greatest war of all
time. Britain celebrated the coming of
peace with the greatest procession in
history. The King and his people
paid tribute to the men and women.
living and dead, who made possible this
day of rejoicing and national demon
stration. To those who marched and
those who watched the parade meant
the ending of long chapter of bitter
strife, terrible sacrifice and disappoint-
ment, glorious success and the begin
ming of a new chapter.
[ stood next to a British submarine
sailor. Vice Admiral Beatty marched at
the head Of the naval division, thunder
ing cheers greeting the popular Admiral
as he sauted the King.
Good old David" shouted the sub
marine sailor.
Glad 1t Is All Over
In the next breath he was telling me:
"Years ago | was chasing Fritz and
being chased. It's over. | have had
enough war, enough peace, and now
want just regular navy life
London dropped it's dignity and
cheered, shouted, laughed, cried and
gave full vent to its emotions. To-
night it is happy, though hungry, tired
and exhausted.
And what a multitude, what cheer
ing! There never was anything like it.
From the time that Pershing rode out
of the Albert Gate to head the parade
which zig-zagged through seven miles
OF streets, until it passed the royal
box two and one-half hours later, there
never was moment when the roars of
millions could not be heard in the heart
of the city.
plenty of cheers. Like circus, it
was impossible to see more than one
point at time. In the early hours
the crowd began to gather at the Vic
toria Memorial in front of Bucking-
ham Palace. The head Of the Mall was
surrounded long before the start. The
royal reviewing stand, where the King
took a salute, was filled with foreign
diplomats, cabinet ministers and their
wives.
Standing Beside the King
Ambassador and Mrs. Davis had
front seats. Close to the King stood
the Prince Of Wales. Premier Llloyd
George, Winston Spencer Churchill,
and Bonar Law, and later Marshal
Foch, General Pershing, Admiral
Beatty, Field Marshal Haig and other
soldiers and statesmen famous in the
war.
Below me we're some hundreds of
Tommies, every lone one legless, but
happy as school boys on holiday.
Helpless cripples still wearing hospital
blue, they looked across the famous
geranium beds to the royal stand, and
as some celebrity was received by the
King, they shouted and tossed their
hats in the air. The nurses had a
busy time collecting hats, but even
they had no complaints.
Some appreciation of what the war
meant to Great Britain could be OBJ
tanned from the reviewing stand. The
Kink looked down the Mall, one side
Of which was lined with stands where
though nine months had gone since
the fighting ceased, the other side oc-
cupied by widows, mothers and
orphans of soldiers.
Not a soul was craving sympathy
to-day. The cheers of the wounded
were perhaps a trifle weaker, but not
for lack of spirit.
American Lads In Front
America marched in front and she
filled with pride every Yankee in
London. General Pershing, mounted
on a beautiful brown charger, came
into view when the crowd had hardly
found it's voice, but thunders of ap-
plause greeted him. The American
boys wearing helmets and with bayo-
nets fixed marched in perfect align
ment, with a snap and precision that
must have gladdened the heart of every
military man and certainly to a civil
ian they seemed the last word in mill
tary training.
With the Stars and Stripes and regi-
mental colors grouped. they made the
most striking picture in the whole pro-
cession as they passed the King and
mounted Constitution Hill. General
Pershing then called at the Royal Box
The Belgians came next. The multi
tudc knew them for what they were
and no country's representatives got
greater ovation, not even the French
with Foch at their head.
Eight Chinese officers on horseback
represented the largest Of the Far
Eastern countries, while a company of
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