Unique Ceremonies in Capetown and London Capetown, May 31.
The anniversary to-day of +the founding of the Union of South Mrica was marked by the official hoisting for tha first time of the new Union fag with due ceremony in all the principal towns of the Union, The chieg- ceremony was performed - at Capetown in the Erounds of the Parliament build: ings, where the Governor-General-of South Africa, the Earl of Athlone,_ addressed a representative gathering, after which the Union Jack and the new national flag were unfurled muttancously to the accompaniment of a salute of 21 guns, The Premier, General Hertzog, and General Smuts wwe the King" and Van Sud-Afvikn" were sung. by etulents and played by the band, The occasion was marked by the release in all parts of the Union of hundreds of prisoners serving short terms of imprisofment—Rent Trafalzar Square Ceremony London, May 31.
There wax an unusual ceremony: at Tenfalgar Square this morning, the simultaneous unfurling at South Afviea House by Prince Arthur of Connaught of the Union Jack and the new national flag of South. Afvien on the vention of South Afvien's Union Day eynchvonising with a similar ceremony: hn Cape:
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