AN INSULT TO FRANCE.
« CITY OCCUEBENGG. . Astonishment has been written over Hβ thoughts of ■; tho, i officials ... of; the , Navy League by certain things nhioh befell this week. It Appears that Mr. Palmer sent out messengers asking buiiine-ss people ' ' to display their flags on Trafalgar Day. These messengers were well .received in most cases, but, in others, ;the answer was a grave steement to tho , effect that "flying flogs vould be an | insult to France.."'"' ■■ ■■■■■•■'' ■■ &: The, league points out that Trafalf>ai Day is, from thoir point of p6w, |a day , of thanksgiving merely, and a convenient j occasion on which national' patriotism ' and feeling- may crystallise. Its reference , > to any other Power, in particular,, scar- , ' cely exist)!. • America celobratss its i "Fourth of July," and no one regards • that oelebration as an inenlt fn England. \
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 953, 21 October 1910, Page 4
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135AN INSULT TO FRANCE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 953, 21 October 1910, Page 4
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