WAKE-UP" DAY IN UNITED STATES
PATBIOTICT PARADES. . To-day is day in 'America [wrote "Tlie Times" New York correspondent on April 19 last). Iα New York and hundreds of other cities and towns throughout the country the anniversary of the battle of Lexington is being 'celebrated with the object of mobilising public opinion iu support'of "the-Gov-ernment .Bill for the establishment of compulsory service in the Army and Navy. As I write a vast par«de of 40,000 patriots is.being formed* in Fifth •A-venue. Other parades are being assembled in Brooklyn and elsewhere. Over the crowds are flying a ecore or more of aeroplanes, from which- airmen are scattering posters in red, white, and blue, .'-■ reading as follow:— . 'A. Message on Wake Tip America. Bay from tho Modern Paul Reveres of the Sky. ' ■■•'■■■•" April 19, 1775-April 19, 1917. Ooe Hundred, and Forty-two Vears Ago To-day-Paul Revere Made his Famous Midnight 'Bide Calling Americans to Anne, against • The Teutonic King. The Fight for Freedom then lvas for The Freedom of the Anglo-6aion liece. The Spirit of Paul Revere Calls Again Today for Universal TYeedoni. ! Act Tiow in tho Spirit of 'Seventjy-sk; your Country Xeeds You. ' Join the Navy. We have Ships, but ire Seed Men. .Wβ Didn't Start'this Fight, but we are . soins to Help Win It. '. You're a man not according- lio what you ..say but according to what You Do. We must Fight this war not lying down but Standing 'TJn. One Trained Man is -worth. Ten lion TJnti'ained. The'celebration of "wake-up" day betfati' at midnight, when the church-bells tolled throughout the metropolis. The' chimss of Trinity Church pealed forth. "My •- Country, '"Tis of Thee," as /the figure of Paul Itevere on horsebaclc, 'impersonated V Miss Jean Moihle, in! green riding breeches and light silk Ijlpuse, dashed 'down tlie street at breakneck speed. She ■was Teceived at various points of the city by representatives of tie Mayors' Com- ' mittee of National Defence. Banquets in •celebration of the occasion were held all over the eountry yesterday.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 6
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333WAKE-UP" DAY IN UNITED STATES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3113, 18 June 1917, Page 6
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