RESPECT DUE TO A FLAG

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1924, Page 10

RESPECT DUE TO A FLAG

Tke Japanese police- are looking for a young man in Tokio who hauled down the Stars and Stripes and went off with t.lie Hag in liis possession, says a'correspondeiit of the "Manchester Guardian." The question arises, What .is the best method of 'dealing with him, when caught i. There are"-.at least two precedents. Eight years ago a German named Hermann Wohlers made an American marine drunk at a Fourth of July ball in Yokohama and persuded him to tear down the Union' Jack ,-'from-.the-wall where it hung side by side with Old .Ulory. Wohler's punishment was immediate deportation. That.'was one way But when Thomas Taylor cut down an American flag flying in ■ tlie yard of .a ■lu*enchman in Hobokcm, the Recorder said, "You will climb to the top of that flagpole and put back that flag. I have insisted on this public punishment for you because I want to set an- example tor the benefit of any perseon who ma-y leel disposed to hold from the flag the respect which is its due.". So Thomas Taylor climbed the 40-foot staff and putback the flag where he had found it, in the presence- of a crowd composed of English, French, Irish,, Germans, and Poles.

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