BAN ON TOY PISTOLS
AN EDICT IN CHINA PRACTICES OF CRIMINALS SHANGHAI, Dec. 30. Pursuant to a petition from Admiral Li Ching-hsi. Superintendent of Customs at Shanghai, transmitting a request from the Municipal Council of the International Settlement of Shanghai, the Military Council at Nanking has issued a proclamation that hereafter the importation of toy pistols and air-guns will not be permitted by the Chinese Government. The proclamation explains that while such toys are really harmful, and in thc past have been imported merely as playthings for children, it has now been found that, owii.g to the difficulty of obtaining firearms, criminals in Shanghai sometimes used these toy pistols in committing crimes of robbery and kidnapping, and that in the interior, gangs of “riff-raff” often terrorise the ignorant country folks by merely flourishing a toy pistol. Hereafter the importation of toy pistols and air-guns, either by Chinese or foreign firms, is therefore prohibited.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 8, 10 January 1929, Page 8
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153BAN ON TOY PISTOLS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 8, 10 January 1929, Page 8
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