Whose Flag Was Tha[?]
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A resident of Santo, New Hebrides[?] to ask whose flag is the central one photo. The photograph—or one li[?] appeared in November PIM and shows the arches erected in Vila, to mark t[?] anniversary of the Condominium Gov Our Santo reader remarks: "Since no Condominium flag we would welc[?] formation as to what the central fla[?] sented. Could it be Chinese? If so, n[?] announcement has been made regard Joint-Pair having given birth to a thi[?] ber of the happy family".
PIM noticed the third flag with so prise in November, but decided that something belong New Hebrides, Close examination of the original ph[?] shows the flag to be of plain colour, serrated-edged ball device—obvious[?] Oriental sun of some kind. The flag [?] or South Viet-Nam, maybe?
There are about 400 British, 1,300[?] and 2,300 Tonkinese in the Hebrides sheer weight of numbers the latter feel they merit a flag, although we u[?] that many of them now have takem citizenship.
The official explanation of the th[?] probably is that these decorative arch[?] erected by the Tonkinese of their [?] will, and as the arches were not parti official decor, the builders thereof co any flag they wished.