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ate the nationality of the post office to which the letter will have to be handed over for delivery, or further transit, at the end of the railway portion of the journey. Unpaid, underpaid, and unfranked letters will be accepted, but they will be liable to all penalties now existing, and unpaid and unfranked stamps will also run the risk of misdelivery. 4.--The letters must be handed, _together with a fee of five cents for each letter_, to the Railway Postmaster at any of the stations above named. This five cents is a late letter fee and is in addition to the ordinary postage. 5.--The Railway Postmaster will then affix the Railway stamp, and will retain the letter for posting in the train. The Railway stamp will not be issued to the public to affix themselves, nor will the Railway Postmaster accept any letters with the Railway stamp already affixed. 6.--This service can be used for letters to Europe or any country over sea. The trains carrying mails leave the stations as detailed below: Peking to Tientsin 8.28 Tientsin to Peking 12.00 Tientsin to Tongku 7.20 Tongku to Tientsin 9.10 Tongku to Tongshan 9.50 Tongshan to Tongku 8.30 Tongshan to Shanhaikwan 7.30 Shanhaikwan to Tongshan 8.47 J. R. L. MACDONALD. [Illustration: 69] About the same period India had military post offices with the troops engaged on the Swat frontier and against the Waziris. Field Post Office No. 25 was the office at Camp Khar on the Swat Frontier, Nos. 5A and 22 were respectively at Zam and Jani Khel in connection with the blockading of the Mahsud Waziris (_Type of Fig._ 70). [Illustration: 70] Indian stamps were also used by the forces engaged in the Somaliland campaign of 1903-4, at first without overprint, of which the following are types of the postmarks (_Figs._ 71, 72): [Illustration: 71 72 73 74] and during 1903 stamps of India appeared overprinted for use in British Somaliland (_Fig._ 73). Colonel Younghusband's mission to the Tibetan Government was accompanied by army postal service which set up its base in the Chumbi valley, and during the occupation of the forbidden city a field post office was set up at Lhassa. Indian stamps used on this mission are recognisable by the postmarks of Lhassa, including two
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