South Africa in 1914. Already we have a first instalment of special marks used on letters of General Botha's loyal forces against the rebels, and against German raiders. The first (Fig. 134) is the handstamp struck in violet of an official regimental frank. The army base and field post offices have their postmarks of the pattern indicated in Fig. 135, and the censor label illustrated (Fig. 136) is printed in violet, apparently in sheets which before use are endorsed with a black mark of concentric circles bearing an inscription of which only a portion shows on each label, and of which we have only seen an undecipherable part.
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All three of these were used on a letter from a member of the South African Scottish regiment at Luderitzbucht in German South-West Africa.
Chapter IV.
France — [Napoleon's Minister of Posts] — [The Second Republic] — [The Presidency] — [Empire] — [French Expeditions to China and Mexico] — [Sedan — Metz — Strasburg — The Siege of Paris] — [Balloon Post] — [Pigeon Post] — [Peace] — [Military Frank Stamps] — [The German Invasion, 1914] — [Red Cross Stamps] — [War Postcards and Postmarks.]