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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

1917

Behind The Scenes In Organising Philately

The first postage stamp was issued in Great Britain, on May C. 1840, and in spite of the obvious' advantages of the pre payment of postage there were very few other states which followed this example before 1830, after which most coun- tries in the world adopted it with enthusiasm. But it was not until 1862, when the first catalogues and journals devoted to the hobby began to appear, that there was any organised collect Or classify

effort to

"Save Me"

Appeal To

stamps. Then little groups of rarities of early philatelie litera- enthusiasts met toxether,

to ture which are mare of bieliophile reference value. exchange information on the interest than subject and to show each other They have a very large reference what had come in from abroad, collection, specialised in certain Countries where past Fellows and and in 1869 such a group in members have left them their London formed themselves into accumulations in their wills, and a society, which they then do they have probably the most im signated as the London Philate- portant collection in the world of llc Society.

photographs of reference value.

each

For many years they used to meet by invitation at other's homes or offices, but gradually, as the Society grey, they required a home and zaveting place. The original mutes of their medings had t be published in ende n ethey journala, but in 1892 they

i

Unrivalled' Records

The collection of photographs, has been gathered in a way which is envied by collecters of other aprecious things. Fifty une years ago the Society formed an Ex- assist their pert Committee to

niember, and members, and any Monday's abandenment, for

any cutside can submit stamps all practical purposes, of the Lon

for opinion to the Society's Ex don Palestine Conference compels

As stamps pert Gonunittee. the Cabinet to face a situation

By A PAST

ran so easily be sent through the that has been apparent to the most

PRESIDENT

pest, collectors almost invariably specimens to the expert casual observer for a considerable"

Cuspaittee

te for inspection, and time past. The Conference has

established their own monthly the suit is that practically no served no more valuable purpose

kurral, which has continued te haelic, importantes than to demonstrate that the

until the present day. In 1890 submitted for sale

scrutiny by submitted Arabs are obilitaté in hostility to

His Royal Highness the Duke the Committee, or is

is later sent. any plan of partition for Palestine.

of Edinburgh, second son of to them for

10

verification. The and that the compromise plan

Queen Victoria, became Presi- stamps Hamburg, Feb. 4.

photographed and Joffered by them would be opposed Raven-haired German den. In 1893 the Duke of duplicated on the certificate it-

York. later King George V, be- self and in the record files with equal bitterness by the Jews.

as the Committce Alt. Bevin assured the Arab de Maria Mory, 40-year-old came Vice-President, and in society, and legating that no final decision has Swiss journalist who was 1896 he acceded to the Presi- have dealt with over 30.000 of the been taken by the Cabinet in yesterday sentenced to deney of the Society. The Royal rarest stamps up to the present favour of partition, but he also death for her part in the thas established in 1800 has called in the world.

ecnnection with the Society time it will be appreciated that their reference material is un- indicated that His Majesty's Ravensbruck. concen- continued up to the present Ainisters have reached a stage intration camp atrocities, time No-reigning King of their study of all the factors in- voked which will permit them tos appealing to the Swiss Britain can be President of any kind in the world today, and ad- Shanghai - Bangkok - Singapore - Manila declare their own solution of the Government to save her va accension in 1910, he be society of the ding philatelic &

FEATI

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tar removed from a.state of

Switzerland

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eodety but on King George

Royal Interest

!!

King George V, before his ac- 3 Roman cession, was an extremely active.

problem whhin two days, with from the gallows.

intention of applying it. All daguments relating to her Onders for the evacuation of wo case have been collected und men and children and non-essen-wil be sent by special courier |tial British residents" of Palestine do the Swiss Government with

confirms that impression. The her appeal for help.

Mory. who Agents:

plainly nitary authorities are

the cross when she was sentenclent portions of his collections for HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD.ping for developments net Catholic and made the sign of Vice-President and Président. He siege, for an unheaval much more to be hanged, was visited display at meetings and exhibi- in her cell today by a German lions. He read papers before the Serinas in its potentialities than Catholic prison padre.

Society and presided at their cand conceivably arise from at

meetings on occasions, and after She is reported tu bave issued event such as the carry broken down under the shock one of his collections for the open his necessior be invariably lent ing our of the death sentence on the sentence but to be finding meeting in each philatelic the terrorist Gruner. If, as Mring solace in her religion. season. which last from October Beyin insists, the Cabinet is not She has refused to name the May, practice which irrevocably committed. to the English

offer to whom she been followed by his sor King

the George.VI. panition plan, Britain's leaders claims to be engaged, on have obviously been discussing an grounds that she does not want alternative selieme equally likely to get him involved in "the to cause an immediate conflagra case-Reuter. tim, whatever may be its final] consequences. A situation which

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Russia Had

Report On

policy A

At-Bombs

has only been delayed so far hef

yond the stage when all hopes of

New York, Feb. 4.

former

# freely acceptable solution had Ivor Gosenko,

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been

are

tu

Oldest in World

of the

The Society is the oldest of it mittedly the

Apart from rime the Patron of the Society, the work of its Expert Committee. it publishes Standard works on and King Edward VII und King, George VI succeeded him, the latest philatelie research.

started its publication pngramme in this position.

in 1879 with a work on Spain and its Colonies," but ever since 11 has concentrated on handbooker,

subjects. Apart from the fifty- four volumes of "The London very largely on British Empire Philatelist," the monthly journal pro- of the Society, there are bably wer a hundred volumes which the Society has published

a work is or snsured, and their cachet on 识强 Dronf of its authority. to rent a room or rooms in which The Society for many years had

to meet and in which to house their Library and reference material, but in 1925, with the assistance of their members, their friends and the trade, they pur- chased their present home at 41 Devonshireplace, where the whale of their activities are raw centred They held fortnightly meetings at which papers are read and dis- plays are given, and they hold periodical exibitions, either in their own rooms or in public halis in London, which are designed for the specialist

has

I 1906 King Edward VI esta- blished the Society, London, as a Royal Society, and it is now the Royal Philatelic Society. Lendon a rather awkward title, but necessary to distinguish it from other societies with the same initials. Thus, the Fellows of the Society put F.RR.SL. after their names. The members and there are between 200 and 300, members -and the Fellows, who are limit ed to the firs-400 in the list, are all strictly amateurs and the Arti cles provide that none but ama-

curs can be elected..

Original Objects

of

the DI

general

CARNIVAL

By Dick Turner

COPE, 1960 MT NEA SERVICE, ING, F, M. ROĐU N

1-24.

"I'm sorry I can't tell you anything about my grades, Pop-it's military secret!"

Jet-Propelled

Water Record Bid

London, Feb. 5. Sixty-one-year-old Sir Malcolm Campbell, who paid a ten shilling fine on Monday for speed- ing on land, predicted yesterday that he can break his world record on water if he can keep his jet-propelled "Bluebird" from taking off and flying.`

The aquatic speed King, who set the present mark of 141.7 mile an hour in 1939 using a Rolls- Royce engine in his "Bluebird," told a press conference that the revamped motorboat might become airborne at top throttled.

Sir Malcolm added that he propellor. The loss of efficien- had no intention of using the cy due to a ship's propeller is

of the jets. anything up to 30 per cent. maximum power

"The Bluebird 1s only.

it is the beginning, because first time a jet-engine has ever been fitted to a boat," he add- ed-Associated Press.

He plans to start tests with the "Bluebird" at Lake Couis- tou. Lancashire, in March and to attempt the speed record in the Summer.

His craft mowered by a De- gas turbine Haviland Goblin

"7,000

horse engine of nearly power, is 27 feet two inches leng, with a beam of 19 feet The iet is similar 10 inches,

public. In 1940, the Society pro- in that used in the Royal Air Exhibition to celebrate the cen- plane. posed to hold a great International Force's. "Vampire" fighter

Sir Malcolm said he conceive tenary of the first pustige stamp..

event was prevented by Led the idea of trying jets · în 1939-1045 war, and the Society

Stalin

Turns It

Down, Too

been eliminated because of a cipher clerk at the Soviet

is at present trying to collabor- the "Bluebird" about two years. natural concern for those exposed Embassy I Ottawa claims in The original objects of the ate with, the United States of go when they proved practical to danger and strain in Palestine. un article published, here that Society are somewhat different America to make the celebration in fighter planes

centenary in Inefficient Screws

Paris, Feb. 4. The immediate danger to our samples of Uranium 233 and from those of the, present day, of the American

1947 as successful as possible in them are retain-i

"My feeling for many years," forces, military and police, is not Uranium 235, specially prepar- though some,

Generalissimo Stalin these times. No doubt the post- likely to be decreased by any imel forms of uranium which is ed. Looking at the original aims poned exhibition of 1940 will be he said, "has been that there has refused the French. posed policy, hence the abnormal one of the basic elements

Medal the-- of we find the phrases: "To collect

of propelling a ship than by precautionary measures initiated masking atom bombs, were car- all possible information respect date in London at a fairly early should be some better method Military

highest French military last week. A partition scheme will ried from Ottawa to Moscowing stamps the prevention

facilitating and

decoration-the French infulve large forces and large in the diplomatic bag of the forgeries; the

spreading of the knowledge of riks, and that is not to say that! The disclosures made by philately; and the facilitating, the i any other plan will automatically Goenko 18 months ago led to acquisition and involve lesser forces or lesser the Canadian spy trials in stamps among members." riks. With partition there would which 15 persons appeared be first three are retained. The So- fore. the Canadian courts on ciety has no exchange club, and charges of communicating in the new formation to Russia.

at least be some prospects some day of the risks being ended; and Fat least they would have the ment

Soviet Embassy.

exchange. cf.

The

issue services of the present time make it unnecessary

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE Foreign Office announ-

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

MISFITS DEFY PROPHETS

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ced tonight,

In a note to the French Gov- ernment, Stalin, after thinking. France for the gesture, said: "Since Lenin it has been con trary to tradition that the apparent misfit, and that was se

cader of the Soviet Govern. wo with the loss of two trumpment, er any minister, should tricks and one each in the other recept a foreign:decoration." It is all well and good for

suits plus. ruff of 3 club.

Less than a month ago Gen- the towards collecting all possible in- some experienced player to tell a

At Table 4, West did nge over, eral Charles de Gaulle refused formation respecting stamps. less hardened campaigner exact

Spade, East bid 2-Diamonds, They have a, Library which today by what he should do in certain call, so North responded with the same decoration, on the Includes

of situations. But when he gets to South made an many thousands volumes-everything, in fact, of didatic abrur misfit hands -- in

odd pass and grounds that he reference valuo published in any which neither pair has a suit that North doubled, beating it one warded it for what he had Accomplished as leader of the part of the world and in any really. is well matched up bc- language, as well as the extreme tween the partners, and nobody veloped where bidding went as order for a

The mist interesting play de country and that it was not in Government chief has a solid suit to run

at No shown unti. North's second win; to accept a decoration which in smart Alecky by being too de got a Lerific top, Trumps he may make himself when, he bid 3-No Trumps. He affect he himself awarded.

even with the The Military Medal was also finite. There are many hands in misfit suits and distribution fat awarded to Winston Churchill which different intelligent guesses from Ne-Trumpish. The club 5d posthumously to the lato are made by a whole bunch of went to the A and the diamon President Roosevelt. pretty good bidders.

af being run for a known and In an article published, in for the Society to have agents in clear purpose which might gra. February's issue of the Ameri- ferelin countries, to send them

can magazine "Cosmopolitan" stamps. dually win adherents both inside he claims to tell the story of But they have gone a long way and outside Palestine. There Russian efforts to obtain might also be a chance of real serrets of the atom bomb. cooperation against the ferrorism. Ro had learned, he said, that Despite the sharp protest of the Moscow had detailed reports on leaders of the Jewish Agency the atom bomb months before against the implication of the term the world at large heard of it "purported in the latest state-Reuter, rent placed before them, the fact remains that cooperation hitherto has been confined to words and exhortations generally futile in dealing with fanatics. The gen- cral attitude of the Jewish leaders des, however, provide indication that some form of partition would neither be impracticable at the present nor hopeless for the fu- Bire.

In the long run 'terrorismi can only be drained of its vila! face if a solution be adopted to which others than terrorists Caf

Newspapers To Be

Made Public Trusts?

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London, Feb. 5, George Goyder, head of a newsprint supply com- pany, and a member of the Christian Frontier Council, speculated yesterday that Britain S. may require re-organisation of her large news- papers as trusts dedicated to the public good. teen sound reason to be found by "It may still be," he declar-, cil's organ, Mr. Gorder id agreement between Arabs and

ed, "that the Royal Commission that control of the press by | will decide that the best inter- the state "must resisted' gs. Jews; but the British Govenest of the press demands that incompatible with democracy." mer may be able to impose one newspapers which have reached but added — which would in

be reconciled. There never has

fact lessen, or a certain size and development ...

een eliminate, both Aral fears will, in the future, be required Nothing To Fear

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Communist Arrested In U.S.

New York, Feb. 5. Gerhardt Eisler; who last- October was described by an on Communiat leader as direc- SCK Gàtor of the Kremlin's, activity in

the United States, has

been arrested at his home on charges of vistating the enemy alllunce act and taken to Ellis island for a possible deportation. Ma

Eisler planned to leave for Neither side Lerlin on October 18, last year (Deater North,

on a Russian ship but his exit cancelled without Against fanered opponents, permit was

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The Commons voted late last is to be hoped that other the declarer who got Into that October to create a Royal Com newspapers will follow the lead 3 Spade contract made it follow- mission to investigate, press already given by seeking, meaning the clubs 5 lead to the. A and ownership and organisation in of expressing their responsibia stuffed return, as he later lost Paris, Feb. 4. Great Britain, The appoint-ty to the community in a legal only one trick to the diamond Q Roy S. Davis, Transcontinea- ment “of-lis members is expect-[ ferm",

and tho to the spade K. fat and Western Airlines man-ed this month

If the National-presa Lakes AL Table 2, South passed the tenance chief in Paris, crasted The Christian Frontier Coun voluntary action along these 2-Diniponds to see if North want vulnerable.) today while landing at: Orly air-it in a group of prominent Unes it can have nothing to red to double, which he did, and held and was gravely injured.

Davis was flying small tws British clergy and laymen or fear either from Parliament, it was set two tricks for a score who were upset over the lost explanation by the States De A rubber, after South bid 1-Diapartment after he was denoun- Jisater private

At Table 3, North passed his mond, and West 1-Spade, what ced as No. 1 Soviet agent in d. Iractured angiano suffer med study world pro- from the public which it has 1 360

and other in-bieme. Writing in the "Chris on the whole served no will in

Lian News, Letter," the Count the past Associated, Press portoirs 3-Hearts because of the puld you da in the No-lh?

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