Break Down of Committee i Searsh of a Compromise Design Capetown, June 17, The feeling on the flag issue had: been intensified by the breakdown, lof the committee seeking to evolve, compromise design, upon which' the Government intimated ite intention of producing a new design which will probably embody all the old flags of the various sections constituting the Union and including the Uniop Jack, but the latter will occupy: only'a one-sixtieth part of the: whole: hence the new design is more unpopular with the British section: than the previous design and hat already been dubbed the "coffin, flag" because the three old flags Jaxe "boxed in a coftin."—Reuter.
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