THE PEACE NEWS
MIDNIGHT SERENADE RE- ' CALLED. " Why was the news of the armistice suppressed, seeing that in Australia they got the news" at 11 o'clock the night before?" said Mr, Witty in the House of Representatives this morning. , The Prime Minister replied that state- ! ments had been made about the matter which were contrary to fact. The first news came to him, unofficially, a little after midnight, but in view of what happened in .connection with' the "false alarm" he could,not give it to the press. He.had to wait for the official news from I the Governor-General, and it arrived about 2.30 a.m. Cabinet previously had decided that if the news did, not come before midnight, it should, be held back till 9 a.m. That there was a leakage was' undoubted, because a number of young men came round to his house and serenaded him with songs and-cheers and all the other accompaniments of peace tidings. ' . ■ ..' .
"Did you.go out?" said:a member. "No," said Mr/ Masseyy, "they ididn't ask me to; but if. they had, I would have gone gladly." "Was there a taxi-cab waiting for you?" said Mr. Witty.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 8
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190THE PEACE NEWS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 8
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