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so busy and [[red underline]] so many have left to celebrate [[/red underline]] that service is [[strikethrough]] practic [[/strikethrough]] much handicapped.
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Walked among the [[red underline]] shouting cheering tooting throngs [[/red underline]] in the streets. Finally got seat for supper at Delmonico's.
Band plays national airs, marseillaise, etc. We conclude to stay in town over night so [[red underline]] went to Gotham hotel for room. [[/red underline]] 
We both feel supremely happy at thought that our boy will be back and that the cause of justice has triumphed over brute force and arrogance.
Nov. 8. [[red underline]] No confirmation [[/red underline]] of yesterday's news. 
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[[red underline]] Mistake accused in Brest by an uncensored [[strikethrough]] tele [[/strikethrough]] cablegram [[/red underline]] based on news furnished by [[red underline]] Admiral Wilson, [[/red underline]] the cablegram was unaccompanied 
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by another that the news was not confirmed. But [[red underline]] Brest [[/red underline]] was already [[red underline]] celebrating to such [[/red underline]] an extent that after the first telegram passed the censor [[red underline]] the second never got thru except twenty four hours too late. 
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Nevertheless everybody feels [[/red underline]] that it is only a question of a few [[red underlining]] hours more at the latest a few days [[/red underline]] and the war will be over. [[red underline]] Mutiny of German navy confined. Prince Henry in escaping in a motor car flying a red flag was [[/red underline]] fired upon by the [[red underline]] mutinous sailors. Mutiny [[/red underline]] seems everywhere going on [[red underline]] in Germany. Red flag hoisted in several cities. This is the beginning of the end [[/red underline]]. Bad news from home. Altho Albert and his children have recovered, [[red underline his wife is very ill [[/red underline with pneumonia and her