The Archive · 1937

British War Trophy Is Returned

London, Feb. 24.

An interesting ceremony took place in the German Embassy here to-day when Sir Cloud Hollis handed over the German Ambassador, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, a flag which had been flown above the government railway building in Tanga, formerly German East Africa, The flag had fallen into the hands of an officer of the British Army who recently presented it to Sir Cloud. The prime movers bringing about this ceremony were members of the Anglo-German Fellowship, " whose chairman, Lord Mount Temple, was also present at the ceremony—Trans-'Ocean Kuo Min.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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