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Show NO FLAGS TAKEN ATJWEMYSL Colors Torn Into Strips Before Surrender and Distributed Among Men Who Hid Them in Clothing. ' Petrograd April u. 1 p. m., via lxn-don, lxn-don, 2:20 p. m. A remarkable feature of tho surrender of the Qalician fortress fort-ress of Przemysl was the fact that not a single Austrian flag was captured, cap-tured, says the Rusky Slovo. The secret se-cret of their disappearance was discovered, dis-covered, this newspaper says further, through the confession of Slav war prisoners who arrived at Kiev. They said that the night before the surrender surren-der all the flags were torn Into strips These strips were numbered and distributed dis-tributed among Individuals who hid them in tho linings of their coats and caps They were required to take an oath to restore them upon their release re-lease from captivity, so that the flags might be reconstructed, thus giving the remnants the rights to a further corporal existence. A search of the prisoners revealed many such fragments of flags In the handle of a bag belonging to General Gen-eral Thomaschi. a flag was found In-1 tact. |