SALUTING THE GERMAN FLAG.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3466, 21 April 1920, Page 2

SALUTING THE GERMAN FLAG.

OR D FIR FR OML T }.IE A[D M ALT Y

l “Now that u strfio uf IJUEICC exists between the ,Bl'iti.\rh Empire and Gernl:uly_.'tllo Gcrulgln. national flag is to be saluted in uccol'duncc with the general rules -in the King’.\' Regulzttions and Admiurlfy 111str11c.tio11s."' In this way the Adnliralty I'ocL-ntly announced to tlm Navy that the War was really over. From August 4:, 1914-, to Novembczr 11, .1918, it was the invariable custom to salulc tho (';}l=.l'mdn flag with shot-ted guns~—th:lt (::Isi(m when the black white und rod ensign was sighted at sun. when H.M.S. Colossus en-k t'cl'ed the VVilhehusllavon roadsteud in Dcc.embel', 1918, with the Allied} I\l'nlisticc COlll'mlSSloll[ on board, all!‘ the (:‘rel'man. mel'c'lla.n: slnips llyingj zl-‘tl um.-hor dipped. their colours to Ilol‘, an ulloxpec..t<>(l. C0111"1‘C-.S§~‘ which was, of mml‘S(‘. I'el‘nl'nc(l ‘by the C‘olo.<.<ug, In lllls‘ way tho exchange of nautical ammzifirrs Wa .<rosnnl(‘(l aflior :1 break of fml:* }*o:u'.=.