SOLEMN CEREMONIAL
At sunset each- day the colourful ceremony of 'lowering the Italian flag on the Armando Diaz is conducted with great solemnity,, but, from lack ,-'' of knowledge, of. etiquette on the matter, many Wellingtonians made a serious blunder yesterday • evening.; Sevexal hundred visitors to the ship were grouped. on tho wharf ' when the time came for the flag' to be struck. The ship's complement; stood at th,e salute, a pistol shot was fired in the air, -and the ship's band played tho Italian National Anthem. But the watchers, apparently not knowing the Italian Authem, stood watching and chattering with their hats on. Slowly the flag came down, so slow that the Italian 'Alithcm and the British National Anthem had been played before it was finally laken in. Most of the watchers realised then the significance of the ceremony, but it was too late.6 rectify the blunder.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 121, 19 November 1934, Page 10
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147SOLEMN CEREMONIAL Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 121, 19 November 1934, Page 10
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