INCIDENT AT TOWN IN QUEENSLAND
(Rec. 11.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. A publican and three returned soldiers in the Central Queensland town of Emerald pulled down the Russian flag, trampled it in the gutter and put it in a pig-food tin. The flag had been hung between the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes for the Anzac Day celebrations. The shire chairman summoned police aid and recovered the flag, after which it was washed and rehung. “The Soviet flag was hung in honour of dead Russian soldiers,” said the chairman, Mr H. Donaldson. “I am as anti-Communist as anyone, but could not see the flag of a war-time ally insulted. I am sure the Russian soldiers who died in two wars had nothing to do with Russia’s present activities.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1949, Page 2
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