Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-26
DISPLAY OLD FLAGS WHEN
 COMMISSION QUITS
lnter-Allied Body's Departure Signal for Return of
 Prussianism

Aiiehstelh, East Prussia, Sept. 25. - Flags of the old German empire, no those of the German republic, wer, raised over this city when the Inter Allied Control Commission, which fo, six months had been the high govern ment of East Prussia, packed up ane left recently on special trains fol Paris.
 The authority of the commission ceased at eight o'clock at night ano on the minute the German flags were raised.
 Up at the high school, across the street from the building where the i commission was quartered the school. master gathered his pupils and made speech, in which he said this was great moment for Prussia, which at last was out from under the yoke of the conqueror. Above his head as he spoke the black, white and red colors of the old empire flutter- ed, but nowhere Twas there a flag of the German republic. At the con- clusion of his speech the master ord cred three "hocks" which were given lustily, and then the children, with their eyes steadily upon the teacher, sang Deutschland Uber Alles." A few Germans who had listened to the schoolmaster joined in the song.
 Ignore Berlin.
 Some prominent citizens were ask ed why there were no flags of the German republic.
 "We are Prussians and conserva- tives," they said, land have not ac- commodated ourselves to the new regime. The flag of the republic is the flag of a sect. We will fly the old flag"
 While evidently bitter toward the Berlin government they felt their duty lay in ignoring it as far as pos sible officially and to have little to do with it personally.
 On the eve of the departure of the commission, crowds stood for hours in the streets and the station square in silence so ominous that some inter-Allied officers interpreted it as the prelude to a serious demonstra- tion.
 The only violence, however, occur red on the steps of the station where Mayor Vladimir Zejgert, who had been ordered out of Allenstein by the commission, was received upon his return from Konigsburg, where he had spent his exile. A reception committee of the more conservative citizens, with whom the mayor was very popular, was receiving him with great formality when young Ger man Communist stepped up and knocked the mayor down. It was a knockout blow and the reception committee ordered a stretcher upon which the mayor was carried to his home. The assailant was not arrest and the incident caused no comment among the crowds.
 On the outskirts of the town a few Communists attacked a reichweher officer and badly used him. In an- other section a few shots were ex- changed between Communists and security police but the Communists dispersed and there were no casu- alties.
 When the blue automobiles carry ing the personnel and property of the went roaring toward the station the crowds gave way, some time sullenly, but hardly word was spoken. Here. and there German hat was raised to an officer in an au- tomobile and the acknowledgment 
 Much Handshaking.
 In the hotels there were many hand shakings between the British and the Germans and the personal servants of the British said their dejected od-byes, some of them weeping. Many of the officers declared they really were sorry to leave for their work had been pleasant and the peo- rle friendly. The French, against whom the sentiment was frankly hostile. held few leavetakings.
 A rumber of German girls kissed some of the officers goodbye at the station and waved them long fare we'll.
 Major Schoenberg, head pf the Eas+ prnssian security police, did not