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lot # 20346 - russo-japanese war russo-japenese war - peace treaty - military evacuation of manchuria - demobilisation
1905 Registered postcard from a Cossack officer with his photograph affixed to the obverse from MAI-MAI-KAI, Manchuria to a lady friend in Kramatorskaya, a few days after the Treaty of Portsmouth (5 Sept.1905) had ended the Russo-Japanese War. Contents include: "Greetings from far-away Manchuria. In two days we shall go to Bukhai, near Harbin, where we shall be dispersed...You cannot break a Cossack..."
Franked pair of 5k Arms issue cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY (3) 13 IX 1905. Registration label reads: FIELD POST OFFICE ATTACHED TO GENERAL HEADQUARTERS COMMAND 2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY.
This was a mobile F.P.O. following the unit in its travels.
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