Suffer the little children at Christmas- especially if they were from the British Empire where they were certainly of less value and had less protection.
This misadventure from Pakistan is told in the Civil and Military Gazette (Lahore) 17th September 1925.
I have looked at how the phoney Berne Convention did not really ban matches containing phosphorus for many years after it had been drawn up.
In the rest of the world, obviously as this article attests, the use of P4 continued, in of all things children’s “toys”. FFS!
Not only was this cheap produced crap highly toxic containing mercury and white phosphorus, it was also highly flammable. One wonders at the luxuries of George V’s England at this time and images of Christmas cards and a time before war came again.
I do wonder if Albright and Wilson made stuff like this and exported it abroad, unaware and completely uncaring as to what use it would be put. Maybe as long as they did not know, their pathetic “Quaker” cult would be cleansed of its sins.
