BUYING BRITISH

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21524, 12 September 1941, Page 2

BUYING BRITISH

NAZI PRISONER’S PREFERENCE SEARCH IN ENGLISH CAMP LONDON, August 18 A new arrival at a camp for prisoners of war “somewhere in Britain” was being put through the routine search when the guard to his astonishment, found in one of the Germans’ pockets a folder from a roll of panchromatic British film. The prisoner, who spoke good English, seemed surprised when asked why he used British film. He said he always had done so, because he liked it better than the German. He probably obtained the film in one of the countries over-run by the Nazis. The brand had not been exported to Germany for several years but there were extensive stocks in France, Holland, Belgium and Denmark. These lost markets have been more than made up for by bigger shipments to the British Empire, the United States, and South America. Another British firm which specialises in photographic paper reports that its exports have been quadrupled during the first four months of the year, breaking new ground in North Borneo, Kenya and Thailand. Australia is taking nine times as much, Brazil five times, India three times, while supplies to South Africa, New Zealand and China have been doubled.