Foreign News: Note

Great Britain with its unemployed decided it would do well to stimulate her trade by buying her own products. She put on a great campaign. Suddenly a few weeks ago letters began coming from the Postoffice with BRITISH GOODS ARE THE BEST stamped on them in the cancellation marking. Last week a storm blew up. Some had discovered—who could have believed it?—some one had discovered—was it deliberate treason? some one had discovered that the machines which stamped patriotic legend were made in the U. S., had replaced British-made canceling machines.

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