post office at
the station and another in the Upper Town. The face value of
the four stamps, added together, was one crown. At first they
were resold for between 4 and 20 crowns, then the price jumped
to 30, and by 10 a.m. the 45-heller stamp (of which only 15,000
had been printed) was sold out. Collectors were paying 8 or 10
crowns for it, in order to complete their sets. At noon the
offices were all shut, as the rush was considered too
dangerous. More than 1000 persons were in the great hall at the
Head Office and another 2000 were gathered outside. Nearly all
the windows where the stamps were being sold were broken. At
the Station Post Office the people began to fight with the
sentries. The National Guard had to be sent for. At 4 p.m. the
post offices had no stamps left (and citizens who had been
waiting all day to buy an ordinary stamp could not be served).
At 5 p.m. people who for the first time in their lives were
taking an interest in philately, wanted 300-500 crowns from
collectors for a whole series. Between 5 and 6 p.m. a stamp
exchange was held in the entrance hall. Eight hundred to one
thousand crowns were being demanded for the series. Soldiers
were willing to give the four stamps in exchange for a pair of
boots, others were asking for sugar, coffee or petrol. The
price which was ultimately established was 250 crowns.]

[Footnote 20: Out of the hundreds of available documents it
will suffice if I print one. It is the report, given in his
words, of a Dalmatian, a native of Sinj, who having been an
emigrant could write in English. "On July 1915 I came to the
Italian front, and on the morrow I went across the lines and
deserted to the Italians. As soon as I arrived at the station
of internment I requested the Command to be admitted as a
voluntary into the Serbian army. This petition of mine was
answered by Italian authorities in the negative. After the
Congress of Rome in 1918 I and some of my comrades who had
recently applied for admission were permitted to join the
Yugoslav legion on June 1. I was right away sent to the front
of the Tyrol, where on August 7 I was wounded in a hard bayonet
fight. On this occasion I was decorated by the Italian
Commander for valour. After 45 days of hospital by my own
request I was sent to the front, where I remained up to t