rawn by W. Pape
of the unveiling of the memorial to Kaiser Wilhelm I. The highest
German stamp denomination, the 5 marks (_Fig._ 236) shows another group,
with the present Kaiser prominent in it. This is also by Pape, and
represents one of those spectacular appearances which the Kaiser has
revelled in, the delivery of an address on the anniversary of the
reconstitution of the German Empire. The motto "EIN REICH, EIN VOLK,
EIN GOTT" (one kingdom, one people, one God) is one which, as we now
know, may be carried too far!

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Since the outbreak of the present war the German armies have no doubt
provided a great deal of new material for philatelic study, and a
recent number of a stamp journal published in the Fatherland tells us
that collectors there are zealously following the development of the
German Field Post Offices, adding the following information:

There is a lot of interesting material already, not only with
regard to the printed forms used in the Field Mail Service,
but also with regard to the Field Post cancellations, Troop
Letter cancellations, and Censor postmarks. The correspondence
coming from the garrisons very rarely bear a Field Post
cancellation, and it is generally cancelled with ordinary
town postmarks like the mails of troops still at home. Besides
this, there is, occasionally, a censor Troop cancellation;
to the latter also belong the Lazarett cancellation (hospital
service), of which we have seen several that were interesting.
Lately, a large number of pieces of mail have been coming
from troops in the enemies' country, without postal
cancellations--owing to strategic reasons--which is much to
be regretted from the view-point of the collector. In the near
future, the working out of German Field Post cancellations of
the war of 1914 will be an exceptionally thankful philatelic
report. We will only mention the news that France had issued
several occupation stamps which were said to have been used
during the occupation of Muelhausen. A collector in Muelhausen
wrote to us about this mythological issue of stamps, that the
French, during both occupations, have neither used their own
stamps, nor have they organised any kind of postal service.[6]

Belgium, as already noted in Chapter V., has been provided with stamps
of the Germania type overprinted "Belgien" and the value in centimes