The Archive · 1939

Cigarettes Banned

Tientsin, July 29.

British manufactured soft drinks &nd cigarettes were included in a "black list" issued today by the anti-British Boycott Campaign Committee, which urged that the named products Lo boycotted.

The list of British manufactured soft drinks erroneously included Coco Cola, which is an American-manufactured beverage and which is becoming extremely popular with the Chinese masses. The committee ordered all Chinese to boycott sixty brands of cigarettes manufactured by British firms. The list included such popular brands as Three Castles, which enjoys a wide sale among the better class Chinese, and Hatamen and Pirate, which practically have monopolized the local market among the average class Chinese for years United Press,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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