CHANGING THE FLAGS.
FROM FRENCH TO BRITISH. CEREMONY AT WIESBADEN. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 30. The official exchange of authority from French to British in the Wiesbaden Zone was made this morning. The only outward and visible sign was the lowering of tho Tricolour and the hoisting of the Union Jack in its place. The event was marked by a simple military ceremony in the Echo Schlossplatz, where two companies of French infantry, two squadrons of Chasseurs, and a detachment of 100 men from the Second Cameron Highlanders—which is iuu only regiment that has so far been transferred to Wiesbaden from Cologne—paraded. The guard was changed as the Tricolour was lowered, to the strains of the Marseillaise. Tho Union Jack was at once hoisted and the British National Anthem was played. A march-past concluded the ceremony.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 9
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