Chungking Asked to Take Action Against French The Shanghai Office of the Kuomintang is reported by the Chinese press to have sent a petition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chungking asking that representations b" made to the French authorities against the prohibition by the French police in the French Concession in Shanghai of the hoisting of Chinese national flags.
"The incident referred to occurred last Sunday when the local Chinese commemorated the 14th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen by half-masting Chinese flags. Many of these flags were asked to be taken down by the French police.
In connection with this incident the Kuomintang office in Shanghai has also issued a statement explaining that to interfere with the hoisting of flags of a nation is tantamount to humiliating the country by which the flag is represented.
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