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RED FLANNEL FLAG.
The Mayor in the little village of Boucau. in the French Pyrenees, has boon suspended for one month. News reached the town hall on May 3 that Prance was about to fall into the hands of the Bolsheviks. The mayor acted quickly. He obtained his wife's red flannel petticoat and hoisted it over the town hall. He then awaited instructions from the Soviets. All he heard as a sequel was a message from the Minister of the Interiar saying that his services were suspended.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 2 August 1920, Page 3
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87RED FLANNEL FLAG. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 2 August 1920, Page 3
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