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Show POLISH COLOBS FLYJVER KIEV Populace Turns Out to Greet! Men Carrying Flowers Instead In-stead of Bayonets KIEV, May S. (By courier to Warsaw, War-saw, May 11. By the .Associated Prcs3.) For the tenth timo in less than three years, Kiev today changed hands again. When Alexander F. Kerensky, then the Russian premier, came in October, 1917, at tho head of the anti-Bolshevik forces, Kiev .-as curious as to the newcomers, and its inhabitants today were just as curious as ever. Late Friday and early today, when the first detachments of Polish cavalry caval-ry reached the city, there was a scramble for shelter, most of the people peo-ple going: lo their homes and remain-Ins: remain-Ins: indoors. As the Polish Infantry began entering tho city this morning, however, curious eyes peeped from every window. But in the afternoon, as tho infantry infan-try camo in force, singing as it marched with flowers in its rifles in- l stead of bayonets, Kiev's curiosity was j again satisfied, and the people began I pouring into the thoroughfares. j j Tonight every one. old and young,' j poor and rich, wero out in tho streets j mingling and talking with the soldiers, whoso arms wore stacked in the' squares. I The Polish colors again aro flying near where, centuries ago, the Polish; banner was flown by the forces of Boleslaus the Great. Poland's second king. Near the Polish colors at sev-J eral points there has beon placed the flag of the Ukraine, mode3t In design, j representing the blue sky over th? IH golden whcatfields of Europe's richest granary. |