926. Hongkong's badge shows a harbor 

 scene in which appear a junk and a tea clipper. 

 Hongkong is a Chinese city, now under British 

 sovereignty, and possessed of a naval base of 

 first magnitude. 



927. Weihaiwei, a British holding on the 

 Chinese coast, is represented by a badge upon 

 which appear two mandarin ducks on the banks 

 of a stream. 



928. The motto of Mauritius proclaims it, 

 "The star and the key of the Indian Seas." 

 On its badge, which is a quartered shield, azure 

 and gold, appear the symbolical key and star 

 and a galley. The supporters are a red and 

 white dodo on the dexter side and a red and 

 white antelope on the sinister. Each of the 

 supporters has a stalk of sugar cane in front 

 of it. Mauritius is an island in the Indian 

 Ocean, 500 miles from Madagascar, having 

 about 720 square miles of territory and about 

 377,000 inhabitants. 



929. Seychelles and its dependencies consist 

 of ninety islands and islets, with a total esti- 

 mated area of 156 square miles, lying along the 

 coast of Africa. They are represented on its 

 badge by a tall palm tree, with a smaller tree 

 near by and a turtle at its foot, and the motto 

 Finis coronat opus. 



930. The ensign of the Federated Malay 

 States is one of the comparatively few ensigns 

 of the world that use black. The field consists 

 of four horizontal stripes, white at the top, 

 then red, yellow, and black in order. Upon the 

 center is an oval of white bearing a running 

 tiger. The Federated Malay States are Perak, 

 Selangor, Negri-Sembilan, and Pahang. They 

 occupy a large portion of the Malay peninsula 

 and are under British protection. 



931. The jack of the Federated Malay States 

 has a unique design. It preserves the colors 

 of the Malay States ensign, but uses them as 

 triangles instead of stripes. The red triangle 

 has its base on the staff; the black triangle, its 

 base on the fly; the base of the white triangle 

 is at the upper edge, and that of the yellow at 

 the bottom. The apexes of the triangles meet 

 in the center of the flag. 



932. The ensign of Pahang, one of the four 

 Federated Malay States, has a field the upper 

 half of which is white and the lower half 

 black. Pahang has 14,000 square miles of terri- 

 tory and a population of 118,000. 



933. The ensign of Xegri-Sembilan, one of 

 the four Federated Malay States, consists of a 

 yellow field, with a union bearing two triangles, 

 one of which, its base resting on the staff, is 

 black, and the other, its base resting on the 

 yellow held, is red. 



934. Perak, also a Federated Malay State. 

 has an ensign consisting of three horizontal 

 stripes, the upper white, the lower black, and 

 the middle yellow. 



935. The ensign of Selangor is yellow and 

 red and is quartered. The first quarter is red 

 and hears the star and crescent of the Moham- 

 medan world ; the second quarter is yellow, the 

 third yellow, and the fourth red. Selangor is 

 about the size of Delaware and has a popula- 

 tion of 300,000. 



936-945 (inclusive). These are the flags of 

 the Malay States not included in the Federa- 

 tion. They are all under British protection. 



The relations of Johore with Great Britain are 

 defined by a treaty dated December 11, 1885, 

 amended by agreement on May 12, 1914, in 

 which the Sultan agreed to accept and to act 

 upon the advice of a British officer called the 

 general adviser. The rights of suzerainty, pro- 

 tection, administration, and control of the 

 other four States were transferred from Siam 

 to Great Britain by the Anglo- Siamese treaty 

 of March 10, 1909. The State of Kelantan, on 

 the east coast of the peninsula, with an area of 

 5,870 square miles and a population approxi- 

 mating 300,000, is represented by 936 and 937. 

 ensign and merchant flags respectively. There 

 are only four post-offices in the entire State. 

 The flag of Johore (938) is black, with a red 

 union bearing the star and crescent of the Mo- 

 hammedan religion. The flag of the Sultan of 

 Johore (939) is white, bearing a crescent and 

 star in blue, the star being nine-pointed. Perlis 

 flies a yellow and black flag (940), the upper 

 half yellow and the lower black. The Rajah 

 of Perlis flies a yellow flag (941), with a shield 

 inclosed within a wreath. The flag of Kedah 

 (942) is red, with a green crescent and a shield 

 half surrounded by a wreath. That of the 

 Sultan of Kedah (943) is yellow, with a green 

 shield, a red crescent, and a green wreath. 

 The Regent of Kedah flies a green flag (944), 

 bearing a yellow shield, crescent, and wreath. 

 Trengganu has a flag (945) the staff third of 

 which is white and the remainder black. 



946. The Governor General of India flies the 

 familiar union jack, with the star of India, 

 crowned, at the intersection of the crosses. 



947. The badge of India consists of a five- 

 pointed star inclosed within a garter and sur- 

 rounded by golden rays, as a sunflower. Above 

 is the crown of the Empire. 



948. The Indian marine flies the blue ensign 

 of Great Britain, with the star of India in the 

 fly. 



949. The jack of the Indian marine is the 

 union jack on a field of blue. 



950. The flag of the local Indian maritime 

 government is the blue ensign of Britain, bear- 

 ing on the Hy a golden lion, rampant, carrying 

 in its forepaws the crown of Empire. 



951. The flag of the Conservators of Bom- 

 bay has seven horizontal red stripes separated 

 by thin white stripes. The central red stripe 

 forms with a perpendicular bar the red cross 

 of St. George, on which is centered the seal of 

 the Conservators, consisting of two small es- 

 cutcheons leaning together on a field of white 

 and having a crown above them. 



952. The flag of the Trustees of Bombay, 

 a body which has in charge the light-houses 

 and other shipping activities on the Bombay 

 coast, has a blue cross placed on the field cor- 

 responding to the red cross of St. George. 

 This cross quarters the field, the first quarter 

 bearing a light-house, the light represented by 

 rays of red, and the other three quarters bear 

 shipping scenes along the coast. 



953. The Witu forest lies within the pro- 

 tectorate of British East Africa. Its flag is a 

 red field upon which is centered a union jack, 

 about half as long and half as wide as the 

 field itself. 



954. British ascendency in Egypt dates from 

 the 1 8th of December, 1914, when the govern- 



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