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Show GERMANS SALUTE FLAG OFPCE Excited Crowds Gather When Reparation Is Made for Pulling Down Banner. BERLIN. Julv 17 I)r Haniel von Hal mho. use n, under-aecretary of for-, ein affairs, with Herr Moll, counselor of tho government lepreseiitlng the, prefect of jiolice, paid a personal visit1 to tin- French mbassy tiiL afternoon to express official regret over the re- moval on Wedneadaj of a French flag boisted over tb French embassy In I honor of Bastllo Day. Herr Moll an-nounced an-nounced the arrest of the guilty per-1 son. Later a company of reichswehr. with .n Officer at the head, filed past the embassy portico! The soldiers turned and stood at intention while the trl-color was hoisted. Then they in. in bed jiw.iv singing Dculschland I ber Alles." The crowd and the police po-lice guards Joined In the singing. Pending the arrival of Dr. Haniel von Halmhauaen and Herr Moll crowd I had learned of the proposed salute ofl the French flag by the German troops! and iher- were cries of "shame," as the saluting company .ipproached the! embaasy. The reichswehr saluting for, e hal not actually left the embassy precincts, when the men broke lustily Into i I . utat bland L'ber Alles " The French officers, who apparently had been pleased lip to that moment, seemed dumbfounded. They lingered for s moment on the root and portico, en-goged en-goged in excited cohversatlon and then disappeared into the embassy building. build-ing. The secrecy with which the Ger-1 nwin government arranged the cere-! mony of saluting the French flag at the French embassy to atone for the pulling down hi the French flag on Bastile day is believ ed to have saved I Berlin front what would inevitably' iii,' developed into s serious popular outbreak. No one knew beforehanil ' thai th mllltarj dilute was to take! placr and the newspapers learned of' It only Just before going to press. But' In their abbreviated reports they pre-:'g.' pre-:'g.' an outburst of editorial indignation. |