PULLING THE LION'S TAIL.
The destruction of a United States flag in Saskatoon, Canada, a few weeks ago was a sensational incident. The Saskatchewan Rifles were marching through the town when an American woman ran into the road and flaunted the Stars and Stripes in front of the regiment. There was a growl of anger from the men and then a bugler seized the flag., tore it and finng it under the feet of hie comradep, who tramped over it. The officer commanding propmti., coartmartialled the bugler and ordered his dismissal from the regiment for having insulted the flag of a friendly nation. But the Man appealed to the Minister of Defence in Ottawa, a:;d was reinstated, on the grout:d that while he hid acted hastily ho had been "actuated by a proper sense of the honour and dignity of his regiment." The incident seems to have closed there, bui it illustrated ens of the difficulties cheated by the rapid influx of Americana into Western Canada. It snowed also that the Canadian Minister of Defence, Colonel Sam Huhges, had some backbone.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 613, 22 October 1913, Page 6
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181PULLING THE LION'S TAIL. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 613, 22 October 1913, Page 6
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