JAPAN’S LITTLE WAYS
“GOLD” MEDAL FOUND TO BE BRASS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.55 a.m.) NEW YORK. September 18. Jimmy Hare, the noted American news photographer, today knows the real xalue of a “gold” medal awarded him m 1907 by the Japanese Emperor, for special services Hare asked a jeweller. to recast the medal for the first United States pilot to bomb the Emperor Hirohito's palace in Tokio. The. jeweller discovered that the medal is 100 per cent brass. Hare comments that it took 35 years to discover that this medal, like everything else Japanese, is phoney.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1942, Page 3
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100JAPAN’S LITTLE WAYS Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1942, Page 3
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