SCOTS AND THE FLAG.

Shannon News, 7 August 1923, Page 3

SCOTS AND THE FLAG.

The St. Andrew Society has submitted to the Secretary for Scotland the pleia that the British Union flag now constitute, by its disproportion, a breach of the Treaty of Union. At the union of Scotland and England, their crosses were united, and, with the exception of the p'eriod of the Commonwealth, this marshalling of the national banners continued until the f union of Great Britain and Ireland. It was then ordained, as the St. Andrew Society sets forth, that St. Patrick’s Gross should be included in the design. Scotland had to share her saltire with that of the nfew partner, while England retained her full proportions. Now that the Irish Free State has been set up, thle) society asks Lord Novar to consider whether the St. Patrick’s Cross c‘an symbolise one province of Ireland, and it is suggested that Scotland should again enjoy the full width of her saltire. A drawing devised by the patriots gives the St. Andrew’s, Gross and, the St. George’s Cross as they were in thel original flag, except with the design in the centre of the ancient arms of Ulster—the figure of a closed hand.