HOIST WITH THEIR OWN PETARD
Boxes of matches were found on sale in Japan recently bearing the inscription “Down with Japan!” The matches (says 4 West Africa *) had come from China, and there was the kind of outburst in the Japanese Press ' one would expect. This led to diplomatic correspondence, and the discovery that the matches had been manufactured in Japan for export to China. , The astute makers felt certain that ■ they, would have a ready sale in that country,. But the Chinese Government, anxious to give no offence to Japan, i prohibited the vending of such provocative goods in China. So back they went to Japan, to arouse the wrath of good patriots in the land of their origin. - Thus poetic justice has been done. For once China has scored, but she has . had a narrow escape. Those match boxes might have cost her another province.
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Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 7
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147HOIST WITH THEIR OWN PETARD Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 7
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