ams which lured one like a moth to candle light because of its sign
of peace. There were bright stars and a crescent moon in the sky,
silvering the Flemish gables and frontages between black shadows and
making patterns of laces in the Place d'Armes below the trees with
their autumn foliage.

"In these lights and in these shadows the people of Ghent danced and
sang until midnight chimed. They danced in baker's dozens, with linked
arms, men and girls together, singing deep voices and high voices, all
mingling, so that when I went to my bedroom and looked out of the
casement window, it rose in a chorus from all over the city, like music
by Debussy.

"One song came as a constant refrain between all the others. It was
'The Marseillaise.' They sang it in crowds and in small groups of
soldiers and students, and I followed one man, who walked down a
deserted avenue and who, as he walked, sang the song of liberty to
himself, brandishing his stick, while his voice rang out with a kind of
ecstasy of passion."

Messages of congratulation passed from country to country and to armies
and navies. Josephus Daniels sent by wireless the following tribute to
all United States naval stations and ships:--

"The signing of the armistice makes this the greatest day for our
country since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For the
world there has been no day so momentous for liberty. I send greetings
and congratulations to all in the naval establishments at home and
abroad. The test of war found the navy ready, fit, with every man on
his toes. Every day all the men in the service have given fresh proof
of devotion, loyalty, and efficiency."

President Wilson cabled to King Albert on the day the king was expected
to enter Brussels, the Belgian capital, the following message:--

"Never has a national holiday occurred at a more auspicious moment and
never have felicitations been more heartfelt than those which it is my
high privilege to tender to Your Majesty on this day."

"When facing imminent destruction, Belgium by her self-sacrifice won
for herself a place of honor among nations, a crown of glory,
imperishable though all else were lost.

"The danger is averted, the hour of victory come and with it the
promise of a new life, fuller, greater, nobler than has been known
before.

"The blood of Belgium's heroic sons has not been shed in vain."

The most terrible and bloody conflict in all history had ended,