Clear telegram from Joseph P. Walshe to Robert Brennan (Washington)
(No. 115)

Yesterday afternoon a group of students on the roof of Trinity College burned the national flag. This incident was followed by street rows in course of which unfortunately some windows were broken in British Legation and in American Consulate General.

The following official statement was issued here this evening:-

'Windows in the British Representative's Office and the American Consulate General were broken last night by stones thrown by a member or members of a disorderly crowd which paraded the streets after the disturbances at Trinity College.

The Secretary of the Department of External Affairs called this afternoon on the British Representative, Sir John Maffey, and on the American Consul General, Mr. McEnelly, to express the regrets of the Minister for External Affairs at the occurrence which he greatly deplored.'