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GERMAN STAMPS.
Abundant Varieties Issued,
`Australia in the War. The seventh, and concluding The other evening I want to Stamp collectors in the future volume of the "Official History of Marconi House to broadcast" a who endeavor to make a completa Australis in the, War, of 1914. speech; writes Daily Chronicle collection of the German traves. 1918," by H. S. Gullett, deals with contributor, I am not a member within the seven years from 1916, Sins and Palestine. This cam of the Entertainere Union, and, will find that they have a very psign, almost wholly "a thing
the Union of Journalists did nol complicated problem, The Gen apart from the clash in Europe, bar my way. I just went upstairs man stamps during that period was the means of the final desth in the lift and waited silently in have "not only shown various. blow being dealt to Turkish room peppered with the monac-changes in design, but the change ambitions as Germany's allies, 1g notice, Do Not Speak in colours has been remarkable and was so largely an AustralasianLoudly." In order to be on the and rapid. affair that the author has ample the safe side, I did not speak at
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"One who studies German's excuse for confining the narrative all: I nervously conned my philatelic output of those seven years," saya. Kent B. Stiles in almost exclusively to the part speech. taken by the units from "Down My "call came, and the Scott'e Monthly Journal, “cannol: Under." In the preface it is kindly commissionaire whispered but doubt that new varieties are explained that: "The sole purpose through the half-open door, "Your being imposed upon the World's of this narrative is to record the turn, sir." I rose and passed stamp fans with full knowledge work of the Australian Light Horse into a spacious room, bare of in Berlin that theso adhesives will in the British campaigns in Siusi, furniture, decorated in dark blue, be purchased in great numbers in Palestine and Syria during the full of mysterious silences. On a foreign countries and bring into. 1916 1917 and 1918." table stood a large box with Gormany's coffers large sums of Acknowledgment is made to the silvery front. Before it, a chair. money other than the home-print- many fighting men who have was directed to sit in that chair. ed deluge of paper marke." Contributed towards the compila. I had a curious illusion that I tion of the information necessary
was going to be electrocuted. for this History.
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More than sixty colours and combinations of colours have been Electric lights glittered and used. Taking violet as an exam- waned, red, and some white. ple, Mr. Stiles shows that it bas They seemed to be talking. It been utilized for stamp purposes appeared to be the new language in shades of blue violet, deep violet, black violet, red violet. of this Super-Humanity.
There is no space to quote from this book of over 800 pages as largely as we should like, and without that we cannot attempt to do more than outline the style I ventured to whisper to my dark violet, brown violet, violet adopted. Suffice it to say that custodians: "How many people and green, violet and orange, deep violet and rose. There is equally the whole narrative is one ting-Am I going to speak to ?
"Two hundred and fifty thou-jas large a number of the browns and he is fed to say that "certain- saud," was the laconic reply.
ling with interest from first to last,
ten,
are
and with the large number of maps And yet, the room seemed soly Germany's justly famous dye and illustrations a very clear: conception of the campaign can empty. It was uncanny to think industry is 100 per cent. proof."
"In the aggregate," adds Mr. be obtined. It is not every his of all that multitude of silent, in tory, even of stirring warfare, visible listeners, with their ear Stilee, "many thousands of dollars That can be so interestingly writ caps on their beads, in multitu-and france and pounds and lira There are passages that dinous rooms-studies, drawing have been surrendered by philate- navour more of the story told by a rooms, garrets-on ehips and in lists in the United States, France, wat correspondent than an official lighthouses-on mountains and England and Italy in return for account produced under Governo plains-scattered all over the uncanceled adhesives which Gar-
has been printing al meat "auspices. The ordinary silent spaces of this revolving many reader, unconnected in any way planet. I was to speak to them! almost no cost at all, and similar-
contributione Mr., Burrows stepped near the ly. with Australasia or the Sinal cam-
being paign, will not find a single dull magical machine and spoke in made by collectors in other lauds chapter, and to the Anzic the work clear accents to his vast follow. to a Government whose interna. must be one of absorbing appeal.
tional pledges are only bits of London calling" he began, paper to be destroyed when Ger- Facts are facts, especially in and then be told them that I was many wills. official histories, so we are glad to note that nobody who rightly
about to begin!
BUSINESS PROJECT. I bogan-and I ended. I just) merited criticism has been spared.
The postal authorities in Berlin At the same time honour is always sat there and spoke." Not in my given where
speaking" voice, but in a gen. are not asleep. They comprehend bonour is due. Porhaps one must not forget that tir, easy, colloquial tone. It does the world demand for postage, ad- personal opinion is bound to affect not matter what I said. I did not hesives. They visualize the finan
'say "I read from A the general run of commente in
mancial gains to be derived from new values, new colours, new designs. any such work, but, even without script, the fruit of my labours.
I seemed to be going on for an Germary issued seventy-four allowing for natural predilection on the part of the author, we and hour. la the middle I thought.varieties of stamps in 1922, and nothing of that strong bias thatI must cut this-it is far too as many as 175 varies have ap- long." But then it suddenly peared since that August day has often somewhat marred sec-:
William Hohenzollern tional carratives of campaigns in came to an end. I had spoken when which a variety of units have for only ten minutes! „been engaged, ̈
A very pleasing personal touch
1/
plunged the world into its greatest Next day I met a man who had war. Germany has repeatedly heard me a hundred miles away raised postal rates-probaly there ---heard me ae clearly as if 1 was an actual need for some. were speaking to him in his own of the increases. Beginning
yoom.
in 1916, twenty-eight denomina.
and an idea of additional value for national reference-is a potted biography of the gallant men, sume still living and others, alas dead, whose deeds meril special "Ob," he said, "I knew that was in use when the World War quaintance, the afterwarde famous you were reading. I could bear and now lamented Ross Smith, you turn over the pages?"
mention. One such is an cid ac
for the work of the Aussies in-
cluded daring reconnaisance by
I was reading."
I was not speaking." I said:tions have been created which did not appearin the 1906 aeries which began. There have also been fifty- |soven varioties in colours of values: which wore already in existence when these alterations were made. These include the woman in
trial and postborn types and the seven surcharges which appeared in 1920. They do not include the official stamps or the stamps of the National Assembly and Muni- cipal Fair series or the airplane Barnard, aged forty-seven, of and charity issues.
an Air unit co operating with the SUICIDE FROM A YACHT armor type, the numeral, indua-
airmen from the Old Country.
Fate of former Mate of King's "Britannia," Formerly mate on the King's
It might be noted that generous praise of the Homeland forces, when their deads excited the ad miration of their Colonial brothers-ia-arms, is not stinted. On the other hand, certain unite yacht Britannis, Arthur Clarence
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Some of these values were in
from elsewhere" receive, where Rowledge. Essex, jumped over- they deserve it, criticism or cen-board, from the steam yacht Zara circulation for only a few weeks. aure, as befits the case. ......
We cannot refrain from giving!
in Southampton Water.
or months and then were chang At the inquest at Southampton ed either in colour or desigo, or A small extract, as a sample of it was stated that at the beginning discontinued and new denomina- what there is a wealth of. It is of the war Barnard was interned, tions substituted. Some of the the battle of Magdhabs. "The and that subsequently the ship on more recent high values, as the British and Australian airmen which he was serving was either 200, 300, 400 and 500 marks, have were showing great enterprise, mined or torpedoed, only he and already appeared in colours dif flying very low and spying out two othere being saved.
ferent from the original issue,-
and bombing the enemy's position; He had attached a weight to New York Times. they frequently dropped messages his neck, and cried out, "Goodbye, informing Chauvel of the situ-Percy," to shipmate before alion.. At 10 o'clock a pilot land- ed on the flat close to Divisional jumping off the Zara.
Headquarters and reported that
A PUZZLE A 'DAY.
A verdict of Suicide during
the Turks already showed signs temporarý insanity" was returned.
of a general retreat by the south,
so that Chaytor's loft would per-
haps not succeed in cutting them thick of the fight, attended only off. Here was the opportunity for by his orderly, galloped "up to Cox with the lat Brigade. Chau- Turkish tronch and was instantly val immediately ordered him to covered by five enomy rifles. The advance, mounted, direct an old fighter excitedly raised his Magdbaba along the flat between care, and, knowing no Turkish, the wady and the right of the shouted at the riflemen in Zulu: Camele. Cox, preceded by ground whereupon the Turks, impressed scouts, moved off at the head of with the demonstration, dropped his brigade at the trot, thus intro- their rifles and bald up their Jucing a striking spectacular note bande."
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