The Cordova daily times., 1920-12-03

any other key pounders see him. The copy of the original message is framed and hangs in Major Beau monts bedroom, at his home, 763 Bellevue avenue, Seattle.
 Major Beaumont, at the time of sending the message ending the war, was a captain in the capacity of telegraph officer for the First army under command of Lieut.. Gen. Hunt CT Liggett with headquarters at Souilly, France, personally dis patched the Hateful message which was brought to him by messenger from Gen. Ligget's office at 7:25 o'clock the morning of November II, 1918, and which ended the war for some 5OO,00O American soldiers of the historic First army.
 At the same time similar messages were being dispatched to the Second army in the St. Mihiel sector, to the chief of the air service artillery and staff departments and to all bases comprising the remainder of 2,000,- 900 American soldiers in France
 Major Beaumont describes the occasion as follows:
 "We stayed up all night" said the major. Myself, and the shift on duty in our portable telegraph of flee And by the way that was the only portable telegraph office in the A. E. F. It was an experiment and it surely was making good Several times the fact that it was on wheels was all that saved it from destruc- tion
 "I took that crew who were with me at headquarters, away from Maj. l.. w. Noes, another Seattle man in the telegraph service He's here in town now with the Western Union They were a fine bunch of boys. The morning of Nov il, every one of us was tired out We had been on our toes for four days and the strain was beginning to tell on us. I was sitting in a little office I had on the trailer and had ceased to keep track of the cigars I had smoked. The boys were out in the instrument room lighting fresh smok- CTS from the stumps of old ones. To every one of us the minutes seemed like ages and the same atmosphere prevailed everywhere around head quarters.
 "At just 7:25 in the morning a messenger from the generals office appeared at the outer door of the trailer and handed up typed mes- sage to one of the boys with the words Shoot it-she's over!' T. jumped from my chair in time to grab the message and glance over it.
 "Fellows,' T told them, tits all off You can all step back and watch the old man send telegram" and I did. I shot it on a through wire first to the First army corps and then jumped to another instrument to the Third army corps At the same time two of my men, Master Signal Electrician Moss and Ser geant Schneiderhaus whom I thought especially worthy of the honor, were sending the message to the Fifth army corps and to the Second col onial French, respectively And do you know that Schneiderhaus one of the men who informed our troops that the Germans were beaten, was naturalized American of German birth
 Later, the same message was sen. to all outfits, first by radio and then by phone and then by motor cycle messenger. But that message didn't actually end it all, it merely notified the troops that by Ii o'clock the last shot must be fired and that the bombardment which had been kept up continuously for 49 days would end in less than four hours I've been told that some of them made good use of those last four hours of actual warfare, and also that some were killed after they