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PASSED THROUGH COMMITTEE. MINISTERS CHEERED. (Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock.) LONDON, December 13. The House of Commons by 226 votes to 166 rejected Mr Hattersley's clause for making the Union Jack ( tho Trisli flag. Mr Macvoagh, in a flippant speech, asked why Ireland was forbidden to do what every colony and dominion was allowed to do. I The Bight Hon A. Birrell said that a compulsory flag would not encourage loyalty. Compulsory loyalty, he said, would be as impossible a,? compulsory religion or Greek. The ffon A. J. Balfour denounced Mr Maeveagh's ridiculing of tho UnI ion Jack, and recalled the United j States insistence on the symbolism of jr. national flag. Mr Brdmond said tho Union Jack would fly in Dublin n*i a symbol of Empire. Alongside it would be the ' green flag, which was a sign of local nationality, and of which every Irishman wot nroud. The p,;|! pasxt-d through its coins^a^es, Tli- Liberals o'lthusinfHeally clieor"d tlv Premier and Ministers' "
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 December 1912, Page 5
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