ROUND THE WORLD
MATCHES OVER THE DESERT. A box of celluloid matches has just arrived in Paris after a notable trip around the world. They are matches provided in New York and Paris cafes for the well-known American game of “matches” and were inadvertently taken by a United States journalist from a Paris cafe. He took them across the Atlantic to New York and on arrival there found his next assignment in China so his matches went with him to Chungking, where, during air raids, he played with them and taught the local Chinese the game. Later, the matches accompanied their owner down the history-making Burma Road and in an Imperial Airways aeroplane over the deserts of Iraq. And they are now back in Paris, the newspaperman having apologised to their original owner and in return been presented with the matches—a dear friend of his round the world trip.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 3
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149ROUND THE WORLD Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 3
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