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STAMPS have Starte

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IN the

South-

ern Atlan- tic, some 300 miles east of the Argen- tine Coast, lie the Faik- land Islands.

A perpetual mist enshrouds them. Rain falls on 250 days in the

year, and the

national dress

of the islands is the mackintosh.

Some half-a-dozen nations have hud, at different times, a hand

were

in colonising these islands, which ceded to Britain in 1771 and formally became 26 British colony in 1833. The Argentine has, however, always made a claim to the Falkland Islands, regarding them as illegally occupied, and a recent issue of Argentine stamps-- one of which is reproduced-shows the Islands quite plainly as Argen- tine territory.

The British Minister in Buenos Aires drew the attention of the Argentine Governinent to the fact that "no useful purpose can be sor- ved by such actions as the issue of yea the atampa in question," and there thanks to the good sense of both nations--the matter ended.

Differences aroused by the issue. of postage stamps have not always been so simply settled in the past, and stamps can be numbered among the thousand-and-one ridiculous

and triding pretexts upon which the nations of the world have at various times thought At to go to war.

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* ✰ BITTER and bloody warfare was carried on Bolivia and Paraguay-at tremendous cost to the wealth and youth of both countries-for the pos- session of the Gran Chaco, before

finally peace was brought about with the assis- tance of the League of Na..... tions.

The south-western parts of the Gran Chaco are Argentine terri- tory. and the northern districts were divided up, by a treaty of 1005, into nearly equal halves be- tween. Bolivia and Paraguay.

The boundary, however, was lett vague and had been for some me

In

a matter of dispute when, in 1927, Paraguay issued the lower one of the two stamps shown above. it the whole of the disputed terri- tory is marked "Choco Puraguayo,"

The

stamp

chused tremendous resentment,at La Paz, capital of Bollvin,

and the Government was urged to toice

reprisals. They Issued a stamp of

of their own--above

-showing the district as "Chuco Boliviano." This stamp-war here was all very well, but soon clashes occurred between frontier-guards and once more nations were at war over a quibble).

PUBLICA

DOMINICANA

VICINCO CENTAVOS

ABOVE is the stamp Issued by Dominica in 1900, showing Halt almost crowded out of her own island.

Ardent patriots of Halli gathered in the capital, Port au Prince, rendy to lay down their liver against this paper invasion.

Luckily the artist who drew the atamp confessed his error, the issue was withdrawn and the troops dis- banded after a few ininor clashes.

IN 1998 the well-known stamp with the camel post- rider was issued in the Anglo- Egyptian Sudan.!

Nobody objected to the stamp, but it was printed on paper having na watermark the cross-shaped lotus flower,

Many of the natives regarded the

Started WARS

a

Lise

CORREOS DE BOLIVIA

LOUINCE CENT

REPUBLICADELPARAGUAY

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150

of the slamp as an offence against their feelings as good Mos- lems, and crowds rushed to attack Post Offices in Culro and clse- whois.

Finally the Government agreed to withdraw the entire issue and. to produce new stamps having us watermark the Crescent und Star. But police and soldiers had to prevent crowds from breaking into the fost Office.

Trouble in Egypt was only one of many disturbances occurring on account of postage-stumps, some- -times-as-in-this case, purely the result of a misunderstanding and without dellberate design, on

any other occasions stamps have been issued expressly to inflame national feeling, to lay claim to territory in dispute, or to glorify one country at the expense of its neighbours.

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✰

IN 1881 it was a postage- stamp which decided the fate of the Panama Canal.

It had been decided to con- struct a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific, but

-PARAGUAYAN SOLDIERS, FIRING ON BOLIVIANS

For seven years war raged in the swamps and fever-infested jungles of the Gran Chaco claimed by both Bolivia and Paraguay. The issue of a postage stamp in 1927 claiming the whole of the "Chaco Boreal" was Paraguay's first attempt to annex the disputed territory.

ORREOS(

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the choice was wavering be- tween the Isthmus of Panama and Nicaragun.

The construction of the conal promised enormous benefits to the country through which it passed, and there was keen.competition.

two between the

Governments, each stressing the advantages of their own and decrying the other as a site for the canal.

Panunto, in particular, alleged that Nicaragun contained active volcanoes which might prove a peril to the work,

Nicaragua denied the charge and the question was almost decided in its favour when. the Post Office issued a stamp-above-showing active volcanoes in the Nicaraguan countryside..It was agreed ut the next session to build the canal through Panama,

OIL has been the world's biggest trouble-causer for 50 yenrs.

In 1895 business groups in Venezuela, backed by the U.S., started a movement claiming 60,000 square miles of British territory on the border of British Guiana and Venezuela.

The agitation had the support of the U.S. President, Grover Cleve- land.

It was even hinted that in case of trouble military support to Vene- zueln would not be lacking.

Tension reached its climax with the issue of the stamp above- showing the disputed territory on the river Orinoco us belonging to Venezuela.

Happily, the dispute was submit- ted to arbitration, the stamps with- drawn, and a peaceful settlement renched in Parls in 1807.

Song Under The Earth

From I. E A. HEALY. "Dally Mirror" Correspondent

with the French Army THE Maginot guns were roar- ing, and the ground shuddering with the blast when I left the sunshine and entered the fort- reas to descend into the earch. There I heard noise of a different character.

It was the sound of applause from off-duty troops who were listening to their first slaginot Line concert given by one of the touring. Army, theatres instituted by the French.

The hall was one of the hundreds- of-yards-long gallerles-of-the-fortress, along which run normally the elec- tric train services.

"The Hum Flit"

The troops_enjoyed a flattering song by French comic about Britain's Home Fleet. His humour was better than lila English, because the nearest he could get in pronun- ciation **The Hom Filt."

was interested to observe that the songs which gained the greatest tributes of silence and applause in turn from these fortress troops were not the naughty songs of Paris. They were "A Little Love, a Little Kiss," and "Little Man You've Had à Busy .Day."

What an Artillery Bombardment is Like

There have been many artillery bombardments on the Western Front.

HEAVY artillery bombard- ment, especially by night, is Impressive and awe-Inspiring, and a feeling of intense Invigoration is manifest in the observer who hap pens to be in a position half-way between the guns and the bursting projectilest

First of all we hear the ear- splitting crack of the 18-pounders; then the nerve-racking crash of the 60-pounders, accompanied by the swish of the shells in their Journey through the night, air, Then we detect the dull boom of the heavy howitzers from farther back, and the peculiar swish-with- wosh- wiss-wosh–wiss-swosh of their projectiles in night."

Green and Red Rockets

and A continuous rumbling #s loconle as Found.

Above all this welter, prodding the sky, shoot up the enerny "SOS" signals calling for help from his batteries. Up and up go The rockets-green and red, star- light clusters. Ilther and thither float his parachute orange-coloured flares; doubtless he suspects gas because of the change of wind. He sends up vivid white fares to en- able him to see what our own in- fantry are up to.

How Orders Come

A DEEP red and orange glare is observed, which betokens that one of the enemy ammunition dumps has been hit. Enemy planes are dropping bombs on our infantry concentration can

points;

anti- aircraft batteries ("archies") have spotted them and are sending up luminous tracer bullets to guide

"archio" gunders.

STILL further back, we pick out the sharp explosion of the larger guns-probably 6-inch or 9.2-speeding their shells with a curiously metallic rush through the atmosphere. The combined forms mighty crescendo.

flashes The

like summer lightning.

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by

are

Standing Immediately behind it, when it is fired, the effect created aun, as distinct from a howlizer, is comparable with the nolse

made by the rushing of an express--goods train through" a. tunnel. The shells are ceen ex- ploding in, over, above, and for behind the enemy's trenches. The enemy front line is an inferno; flame and smoke; glare and blaze

our mar

our

If we now turn to what is going· on in one of our own battery positions we shall find that the Battery. Commander of the 60 pounders is in his Command Post dugout some onɑ hundred

yards behind his guns. He is at the moment poring

map, over his marked with ores of fire and gui ranges. The officer on duty, and telephonists, are behind him. A just come from message has Brigade Headquarters giving a. target.

Here is a vivid description of them.

the following: "Harassing fire on tracks and roads, Mop reference P.34 D.4.2." To the layman this message may be unintelligible, but to the Bat- tery Commander and his staff it conveys a lot. His orders to the battery are of necessity technical: "Right section one degree fifteen minutes more right clevation twenty-one degrees five minutes correction 140. The officer at the guns repeats all this.

gun." A slight pause, then: “No. 1 gun has been kit, sir." "Hullo, hullo, what's that?" "Mr. Jones has been hit, air," The other guna continue firing. Some of the men having been badly hit, the stret- cher bearers bring the wounded in to the first-aid dugout which is near at hand.

A short pause, then the method

given-60 of loading is

many rounds of lykilte and shrapnel, yddite to force the enemy from his dugouts into the open und shrapnel to finish him off when he gets there. The order to fire -then #iver. Hardly have ten rounds been fired when "SOS"

our rockets ascend from

own -trenches--clusters of, green stars.

"Hit Sir!"

Ing

THE right section of the ballery ceases fire and all sections of the battery immediately. switch over to the

pre-arranged target which happens to be an enemy gun make- things uncomfortable for, our own front line. The preliminaries are hurried through and 'our guns are firing as fast as the guncrews can lead and train them. Shells. start coming into our own battery. position,

Presently-B.C. to telephonist The order from Brigade may be "See what has happened No. 1...

Jones the subaltern has been peppered in the stomach and is in a "bad way. He is delirious and raving for water, but it must not be given to him. There have been three deaths already. The Com- mand Post has been hit and the Battery Commander and personnel

have been knocked out,

Salient Straightened.

"THE · Sentor Subaltern takes command pending the arrival of the Captain from the waggon lines miles to

the rear. The centre section of the battery has been knocked out of netion, Two runs out of a battery of six are all that remain, and one of them is manned by four subaltern officers. The Aeing at lost dies down and the wounded are being slowly evacu-

nted.

Our Infantry have succeeded in their objective and have withstood the enemy's Immediate counter- attack, but he is likely to attack agala at dawn. The salient in our. line has been straightened.

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