JAPANESE “UNION JACKS”
SOLD BELOW ENGLISH PRODUCTION COST MANCHESTER CONCERNED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 5. The 4 Daily Telegraph’s ’ Manchester correspondent says manufacturers are concerned owing to substantial Empire orders for Coronation flags being placed with Japanese instead of British makers. The representative _of one firm said that Japanese Union Jacks were being sold in South Africa below the English cost of production. The idea of British children celebrating the Coronation by waving Japanese flags was distasteful. Manchester has already shipped the first consignments of Coronation flags to the dominions.
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Evening Star, Issue 22462, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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