CORONATION FLAGS
ORDERS PLACED IN JAPAN A DISTASTEFUL IDEA LONDON, Oct. 5. (Received Oct. 6, at 0.15 a.m.) The 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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92CORONATION FLAGS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23004, 6 October 1936, Page 9
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