ive-Barred Flag "Reformed Government"
Standard Flies on Bund And From Vessels Persons walking on The Bund were surprised yesterday morning to see the five-barred flag of the so-called Reformed Government flying over the Custom-House, the Customs Examination Building on The Bund Foreshore, and all Harbour Fire Brigade and River Police vessels, including the former Pootung Point River Police Hulk. The flag was hoisted shortly after dawn yesterday, after a long period during which no flag at all had been flown from Customs buildings and craft. It could not be ascertained from official sources, however, by whose order the five-colour standard, once the emblem of the new-born Chinese Republic; had been raised.
It was not the first time that the five-bar flag had been seen in the downtown district of the International Settlement. On March 28, last, when the Reformed Government wes inaugurated in Hongkew, the red-yellow-green-white-black banner was hoisted, at high noon, over the cilice of the Consolidated Tax Bureau in Kiukiang Road, near Honan Read. This flag, however, was pulled down by the tax officials themselves during the early part of the same afternoon for some reason not disclosed. Only north of the Soochow Creek and in territory outside Settlement and French Concession limits did the flag remain permanently, marking official buildings.
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