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Front Page of the Nottingham Evening Post for Monday the 11th November 1918
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THE SCENE IN DOWNING STREET
PRIME MINISTER’S GREAT RECEPTION
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‘WE HAVE WON A GREAT VICTORY’
The news that the armistice had been signed spread with startling rapidity throughout the Metropolis. A tem minutes past then there was nobody in Downing Street, but by half-past ten the crowd was so big that it touched the corner of Whitehall. At 1030 certain Ministers commenced to leave the Prime Minister’s official residence.
There were load calls for Mr. Lloyd George, and when at 10.50 the Premier appeared at the entrance to No.10 he was greeted with a roar after roar of cheers and the singing of “For he’s a jolly good fellow.” The scene of enthusiasm was almost indescribable. When the cheering had died down to some extent there were load calls for a speech.
Mr. Lloyd George smilingly complied, and addressed a few words to the crowd. He said:
At eleven o’clock this morning the war will be over. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) We have won a great victory, and we are entitled to a bit of shouting.
The Premier then retired, and the crowd gave another burst of loud cheering, followed by the singing of the National Anthem and “Rule Britannia.”
A few minutes later the booming of maroons announced to the Metropolis that the war was over. The windows of all business houses were thronged with cheering people.
Mr. Winston Churchill was greeted with vociferous cheering when he appeared in Whitehall.
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ROYAL VICTORY SPEECH
KING ADDRESSES CROWD OUTSIDE THE PALACE
The King addressed a crown at Buckingham Palace with theses words:
With you I rejoice and thank God for the victories which the Allied armies have won and brought hostilities to an end and peace within sight.
His Majesty’s speech was received with tremendous cheering.
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Eggs were sold at Reading on Saturday at the record price of nine pence (9d) each.
Leeds City Council have decided to confer the freedom of the city on Mr. Lloyd George.
In the event of a General Election officers, N.C.O’s or privates will not be allowed to appear in uniform as candidates, agents, members of election committees or canvassers.
Mr. Short told his constituents at Newcastle on Saturday he was most hopeful of the future of Ireland and believed the end of the trouble was approaching.