| Show FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS C W LA CC ea ii 71 5 M IAL A P NI bh MA dorwar CO ANISH COR I 1 the handsome flag in the upper left hand corner Is the german war flag the prussian colors and the prussian eagle are very prominent as Is nat ural considering the large part that pruss a plays in the empire the ground of the flag is white the broad horizontal and vertical bands black outlined with mith lines of black in the upper lefthand corner are the three strips of black white and red the cross is of black outlined with black and the eagle also is black blach the crown on his head being the outline the commercial flag of germany is made up of three stripes black white and red the white stripe in the mid die with black above and red below the danish flag is the oldest in ex lc tence there is a legend that in the year 1219 at a critical time king waldmar of denmark saw in the sky which he took as a signal of celestial a d he led his troops through a successful battle and forthwith adopt ed the cross as the flag of his country it was called dannebrog the strength of denvarl As a definite fact apart from the story the danish flag does date back to the thirteenth century both the man of war and commer cial flags show white crosses on a red ground the man of war shows also a square 0 in black paint the picture |
