THE IRISH FLAG

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11824, 3 January 1907, Page 2

THE IRISH FLAG

Melbourne, January.!; , * An extraordinary incident marked the departure of the s.s. Irish Mon* arch from New York. A large gathering of Irish -American longshoremen refused to allow the steamer to cast off till she hoised the Irish flag, but Capain Graham declined to accede and sent for the police: As., the elections were progressing, no* police were available and the affair began to look serious when the" agents of the vessel were appealed td and decided to overcome the diffi; culty by hoisting the British ensign at the forejriast and the Irish flag aji the mizzen. She then sailed aniidgt the plaudits of the crowd;