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