GERMAN TOYS.
(To the Editor.) Sir.—On Christmas Eve my wife bought two “stockings” for the kiddies. Imagine our disgust on Christmas morning to get out of one of them the enclosed cardboard working model of a Hun soldier in all his war paint. Further investigation reveals that nearly all the toys sold this Yuletide are of Hun manufacture. I still well remember the “civvies’ ” remarks “what a fine body of men,” as we left for duty—the gaunt statue wrapped in sacking and calico still remains unveiled in the Square to the memory of the dead who gave their lives for the British flag! Seven years gone—the war almost forgotten—and Germany has the monopoly of the toy trade! — I am, etc., LEST WE FORGET.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 23, 26 December 1925, Page 6
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