Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1918 — Siam Adopts New Flag. [ARTICLE]

Siam Adopts New Flag.

Slam’s white elephant flag is to be abandoned for the red, white and blue colors of democracy. Commenting on this, the Christian Science Monitor says: “In spite of the fine feeling of enthusiasm for the allied cause which It shows, one can be sorry that Slam should have decided to discard her own splendidly original flag, showing a white elephant on a red field, for a,tricolor resembling that of the great entente powers of the West. Slam sees in the red. white and blue flag the colors which throughout the world stand ‘as a. rallying sign against barbarism.* It Is quite interesting to find that red, white and blue do as a matter of fact figure in (he national flags of Britain, France the United States, Russia, Serbia, Cuba. Panama. Costa Rica, Paraguay and Liberia. And now Siam most be added, If It is really quite true that the white elephant is doomed.”