Jap Union Jacks for Coronation
UNDER-SELLING BRITISH PRODUCT.
United Press Association—B.v Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 11.10 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 5.
The Daily Telegraph’s Manchester correspondent says manufacturers arc concerned owing to the substantial Empire orders for coronation flags placed with Japanese instead of British makers. The representative of one firm said Japanese Union Jacks were selling in South Africa below tho English cost of production. The idea of British children celebrating the Coronation by waving Japanese flags was distasteful. Manchester had already shipped the first consignments of Coronation flags to tho Dominions.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 236, 6 October 1936, Page 7
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