The official observance of Fourth of July by tha American community opened bright and early on Tuesday morning with hoisting the flag at the American Consulate-General. A squad from the American Company of the §.V.C. was present under command of Sgt.-Maj. Kay (Lieut, Olsen's duties detaining him elsewhere), and detachments from the Marines and the U. §S. Navy were also present. The Salute to the Colours was blown by buglers from the Marines and the sailors hoisted the great flag. Immediately after the ceremony Mrs. E. S. Cunningham presented each child present with a silk America. flag.
Consul-General Cunningham prefaced his reading of the Proclamation of Independence wth a few remarks on the significance of the anniversary and emphasized tha fact that the War of Independence was necessary to maintain the Anglo-Saxon principal of liberty. "Just as Columbus earlier discovered a new continent, so Americans created a new political division founded upon the principle of free. dom and liberty for the individual and equal opportunity to al] men."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.