Show Ordered to Lower Flag Washington State State department adVices advices advices ad ad- vices Thursday reported officially that Brand Whitlock American minister to Belgium had been requested but not ordered by the German Gernian military I authorities to lower the American flag from rom the the legation in Brussels n Gerard Party Reaches Paris i Paris James James W W. Gerard former American ambassador at Berlin Mrs Gerard rard and their party two forty-two perSons persons persons per per- sons in all aU arrived in Paris ParI day morning from B Berne rne Switzerland They were met at the station by the American merican ambassador William Sharp and the embassy staff |