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Show British Give Flag to Winchester, Ya. WINCHESTER, Va., Jan. 30 Formal For-mal presentation was made of the original or-iginal guild hall flag of Winchester, England, to its namesako, Winchester, Va., as an expression of the enduring amity and good will of the people of the ancient English municipality towards to-wards the hundreds of thousands of Americans who passed through the city on their overseas journey to the A, E. F. in france. The presentation was made by Major General Bethell, military attache of tho British embassy, embas-sy, Washington. The flag was brought from Winchester, Winches-ter, Errg., by Colonel Carl Abrams ofj i Salem. Oregon, to whom it was en-1 trusted on the occasion of a formal ceremony on July 4, 191S. |