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but they never got further than soup be-cause everybody was dancing in the kitchen and they poured the cook so many drinks he passed out cold and they al sat there singing and drinking champagne out of tumblers and cheering the al ied flags that girls kept carrying through.
Joe went cruising looking for Jeanette who was a girl he'd kinder taken up with whenever he was in St. Nazaire. He wanted to find her before he got too zigzag. She'd promised to couchay with him that night before it turned out to be Armistice Day. She said she never couchayed with anybody else al the time the Owanda was in port and he treated her right and brought her beaucoup presents from L'Amerique, and du sucer and du cafay. Joe felt good, he had quite a wad in his pocket and, god damn it, American money was worth something these days; and a couple of pounds of sugar he'd brought in the pockets of his raincoat was better than money with the mademosels.
-237-He went in back where there was a cabaret al red plush with mirrors and the music was playing The Star Spangled Banner and everybody cried Vive L'Amerique and pushed drinks in his face as he came in and then he was dancing with a fat girl and the music was playing some damn foxtrot or other. He pul ed away from the fat girl because he'd seen Jeanette. She had an American flag draped over her dress. She was dancing with a big six-foot black Senegalese. Joe saw red. He pul ed her away from the nigger who was a frog officer al ful of gold braid and she said, "Wazamatta cherie," and Joe hauled off and hit the damn nigger as hard as he could right on the button but the nigger didn't budge. The nigger's face had a black puzzled smiling look like he was just going to ask a question. A waiter and a coupla frog soldiers came up and tried to pul Joe away. Everybody was yel ing and jabbering. Jeanette was trying to get between Joe and the waiter and got a sock in the jaw that knocked her flat. Joe laid out a couple of frogs and was backing off towards the door, when he saw in the mirror that a big guy in a blouse was bringing down a bottle on his head held with both hands. He tried to swing around but he didn't have time. The bottle crashed his skul and he was out. NEWSREEL XXIX
the arrival of the news caused the swamping of the city's telephone lines Y fallait pas
Y fallait pas
Y fallait pas-a-a-a-a-yallez
BIG GUNS USED IN HAMBURG
-238-at the Custom House the crowd sang The Star Spangled Banner under the direction of Byron R. Newton the Col ector of the Port
MORGAN ON WINDOWLEDGE
KICKS HEELS AS HE SHOWERS
CROWD WITH TICKERTAPE
down at the battery the siren of the fireboat New York let out a shriek when the news reached there and in less time than it takes to say boo pandemonium broke loose al along the waterfront
Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light
WOMEN MOB CROWN PRINCE FOR
KISSING MODISTE
Allons enfants de la patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé
It's the wrong way to tickle Mary
It's the wrong place to go
"We've been at war with the devil and it was worth al the suffering it entailed," said Wil iam Howard Taft at a vic-tory celebration here last night Kakakatee, beautiful Katee She's the only gugugirl that I adore
And when the moon shines
Unipress, N. Y.
Paris urgent Brest Admiral Wilson who announced
16:00 (4P.M.) Brest newspaper armistice been signed later notified unconfirmable meanwhile Brest riotously celebrating TWO TROLLIES HELD UP BY GUNMEN IN
QUEENS
Over the cowshed
I'll be waiting at the kakakitchen door
-239-SPECIAL GRAND JURY ASKED TO INDICT
BOLSHEVISTS
the soldiers