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Show EAST PRUSSIANS I HOIST FLAG OP ! I BLDEMPl I Banner of New Republic Is H Disregarded When Inter- ;H Allied Commission in jn Control Leaves Wt (B) ITie Associated IVcsS.) iLiSs ALENSTBIN East Prussia Sept 25. Flags of the obi German empie not those of the Qeman republic, wen raised over this city when the Inter-Hied Inter-Hied control commission, which for I i Thbnths had been the high gover::-mcnt gover::-mcnt of East Prussia, packed up and left recently on special trains for Paris. To. authority of the commission ceased at S o clock at night and on tho minute the German flags were raised L'p at the high school .across the street from the building where the commission was quartered, the SChuOl-master SChuOl-master gathered his pupils and made a speech. In which he said this wus a great moment for Prussia, whl.-h t , least was out from under tho yoke of the conqueror. Above his head as he p ike the black, white and red colors of the nl.l ,. . , i,i.. r...i i.... H where was there a flag of tho Ger-man Ger-man republic. At the conclusion o. his speech the master ordered three hoi hs" which vver,. given lustllv, and then the children, with their ej u Steadily upon the teacher, sang "l'eutschland Uber Alles." A few Germans who hud listened to the KgV school master Joined in the song. Some prominent citizens were asked why there were no flags of the Ger- gH man republic. 'We are Prussians and conserva- lives." they said, "and have not ac- gH conimodated ourselves to the new re- g glme The flaB of the republic is the gH flag of n sect W0 will fly the old g) While evidently bitter toward the Berlin government, they felt their duty lay in Ignoring it as far as possib le g)H officially and to have little to do with it personally J HOSTILE ( Row lis m ap, One tho cve of the departure of tbe g commission, crowds ,tood for houri gH In th streets and the station square- IH in a silence so ominous that SOme ggggl Inter-aBled officers Interpreted it as the prelud of o serious demonslra- gfl i J The only violence, however, oc- ggga 'H'r'"1 "" "" eteps of the station, where Major Vladimir Zejgert. who gggS had been ordered out of Allensteln hy the commission, was received upon his ! return from Konlghburg. where he had ggggfl I spent his exile A reception commP- I tee of the more conservative citlsens ggggfl , with whom the mayor was very popu- ggggfl lar. was receiving him with great for- , mallty when a young German com- flV munlst stepped up and knocked the flfl mayor down. It was a knock-out flfll Mow and the reception committee or- flV dered a stretcher upon which the BflV J mayor was carried to his home. Th'. ggflfl ; assailant was not arrested and the flS incident caused no comment among flV tho crowds H "n th outskirts of the town a few flfll communists attack..! a reichswehr of- ; fleer and badly used him. In another flfll j section a few shots werc exchanged flH , Between communists and security po- Bflfl "Ice, hut the communlsu dispersed and flH there were no casualties. When the blue automobile carrying flH ""' personnel and property of 'the I commission went roaring toward tbe flfll I station the crowds gave wav, some- fl j times sullenly, but hardlv a word BflV was spoken. Here and there a Ge:- ggflS man hat wa. raised at an officer In flgl an automobile and the acknowledge- rfll returned. H PERSONAL SE3U W i s WEEP. K In the hotels there were many hand- flflg. shakings between the British and the flflH Germans and the personal servants flflH of the British snid their dejected good- Ii H i bves. some of them weeping. Many of gflH the officers declared they really wcie sorry to leave for their work had been pleasant and tho peoplo friendly. The fl French, ugainst whom the sentlmen' flfl was frankly hostile, held few leave- flflB A number of German girls kissed flflgj some of the officers boodbye at the H tatlon and wived them a long fate- flflfl Major Bchocnberg, head of the East BflB Prussian security police, did not take Hflrn the communists' eforts seriously. He Hflfl there ' re only four hundred Hflfl communists In Allensteln und while 'II Of them possessed guns their nam..-. H rere known and they could always bo Hflfl trolled by the police. 4 His office Hflfl hud the names of virtually all rudl- flflfl .i)s in Bast Prussia, he said, except HflV In some of the border town. where BflH there Is considerable commerce with HflS 'lie i...Nh. vikl In his opinion the po- flH 8 COUld handle any situation brought flflfll about ihe East Prussian radical. H |