"Smoke 'em if You Got 'em"

[TORCH03]

[Nick Komiya]

Until 1940, this was the famous brand "Golden Bat", which had to change its name to this Kinshi (Golden Kite) on account of the prohibition on using the enemy's language.

[Nick Komiya]

The Golden Bat was a popular cigarette even among German WW1 POWs in camps in Japan. Here a page out of the picture book created by German inmates at the Kurume POW camp

[GHP]

The Golden Bat was a popular cigarette even among German WW1 POWs in camps in Japan. Here a page out of the picture book created by German inmates at the Kurume POW camp

My German no longer is any good (nor was it ever) ... and I'll not Google Translate; but doesn't the title mean "Terror-ful Times: without "Golden Bat"?

--Guy

[Nick Komiya]

It says "the Golden Bat unleashes havoc". It depicts how the much covetted smokes invite envy, scavengers for the butts and a frenzied mob.

[Ron C.]

I think it is the same as the pack on the right that I have.

Ron

[TORCH03]

Your right Ron, looks like the same pack, but yours is in better condition than mine. LOVE the larger pack of smokes!!

Matt