IN THE FIRTH OF FORTH
.WHEN THE GERMAN FLEET
CAME jfN.
(AUSrSAtIAS-Nt'W-ZEALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 22nd November.
, The Lion and the Australia had.the positions of honour, leading two lines of the Allied Fleet, six miles apart. The German vessels steamed down the centre, and there was dead silence until they had passed.
When Admiral Sir David Beatty, on the Queen Elizabeth, steamed down the line he met with an overpowering reception. There.was a similar demonstration when the' French Admirals passed. ■ The German fleet is moored in Largo Bay, in the Firth of Forth.^
NEW YORK, 21st November.
An American squadron, operating as a British unit, participated in the surlender of the German fleet.
A German light cruiser, en route to the place of surrender, struck a mine and sank in the North Sea.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 126, 23 November 1918, Page 7
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