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Jenks' Portland Gazette. Maine Advertiser
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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The Italian Republic has adopted a new national flag, featuring a red parallelogram with white and green lozenges and parallelograms, plus a detailed pendant design. It was officially announced to the US government via the French Chargé d'Affaires.
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THE Italian Republic has adopted a national flag, which is described below, and which has been officially announced to the government of the United States, by the Chargé d'Affaires of the French Republic, in consequence of instructions received from his government.
Flag of the Italian Republic.
A pattern of the flag of the Italian Republic has been transmitted by the French government to the maritime prefects. It consists of a parallelogram of a red ground, of which one side is double the length of the others. In this parallelogram is contained a lozenge of a white ground, and within the lozenge a parallelogram of a green ground. The pendant is divided into four compartments. The first next the acorn is a trapezium of a red ground, containing a white isosceles triangle, with the base touching the second compartment, which is a green ground with a white border above and below. The third consists of transverse stripes, the extremes of which are red, and the intermediate ones white. The fourth is entirely red.
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Italian Republic
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adoption of a national flag with a red parallelogram containing white lozenge and green parallelogram; pendant divided into four compartments with red, white, and green elements.
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The Italian Republic has adopted a national flag described as a parallelogram of red ground with a white lozenge containing a green parallelogram. The pendant features four compartments: a red trapezium with white triangle, green with white borders, transverse red and white stripes, and solid red. The French government transmitted the pattern to maritime prefects and announced it to the US via their Chargé d'Affaires.