GERMAN TOYS RAID BRITAIN.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2143, 28 December 1920, Page 8

GERMAN TOYS RAID BRITAIN.

The invasion of German toys threatens to smash the industry and destroy the livelihood of thousands of British exService men. Already this year £BOO,OOO has gone into the pockets of the Germans which should have gono to support a largo number of the soldiers who fought the Germans. It began, Mr W. B. Tattersnll, of the "Toy and Fancy Goods Trader," told a newspaper representative, with sundry merchants rushing over to Germany ns soon as the Armistice was declared' and buying up a great quantity of toys, very cheaply, when the mark was worth half what it is now. Their example was followed by others, until now one firm alone has sold £200,000 worth of Gorman toys, and has £OO,OOO worth in the cases on its shelves. British toys are superior in every respect and really just as cheap, but dumping and the rate of exchange enable the Germans to undersoil us. "It is a shame," added Mr Tattersall, "when an ex-Service man has invested £2O in tools, to see him threatened with disaster by German dumping.