orm threatened to send the ship to the bottom.

[Illustration: 197 198 199]

The next two stamps (_Figs._ 198, 199) were issued on April 30, 1906,
to mark, according to the inscriptions the "Campaign of the 37th and
38th years of Meiji. Memorial Postage Stamp of the Triumphal Military
Review--One Sen five Rin" (or, for the higher value--Three Sen). In
the centre is a trophy of arms, including a field gun, rifles, and
ammunition, and the Imperial flag, the Crest or Chrysanthemum, within
a wreath of rice plant and pine. In the spandrels are the five-pointed
stars, badges worn by the Japanese soldiers.

[Illustration: 200]

Two years later a great naval review was held at Kobe, and although no
special adhesive stamp was issued, a quaint postmark representing the
bow of a battleship was used (_Fig._ 200).

[Illustration: 201 202]

The stamps already mentioned under Japan have only a commemorative
association with war. In 1910 the 3 sen carmine stamp then current
was specially overprinted with Japanese characters (_Fig._ 201),
signifying war or field service. These were prepared for and issued to
the Japanese military and naval forces in China and Corea, and it is
very probable that the Japanese forces recently co-operating with the
British at Kiaochow used stamps of this kind, but with the overprint
on the new 3 sen stamp illustrated (_Fig._ 202).

BELGIUM. Brave little Belgium, whose King is the outstanding hero
of the present war has not hitherto had any occasion to provide
collectors with war stamps since the first Belgian issue of adhesive
postage stamps in 1849-50 with the portrait of Leopold I. (_Figs._
203, 204). But the German invasion, and the gallant efforts to
frustrate it, have left their mark imperishably in the stamp album.
The last current ordinary stamps of Belgium were in four designs by M.
Ed. Pellens, a professor at the Antwerp Acad['e]mie des Beaux Arts, and
these included a good portrait of King Albert (_Figs._ 205-208).

[Illustration: 203 204 205 206]

These stamps were manufactured at the Belgian State Stamp-printing
factory at Malines, and as the factory was destroyed in the
bombardment of the town late in August, it is unlikely that more of
these stamps will be printed. The Belgian authorities had been
preparing a new issue of stamps before the war, and had ordered
machinery in England, which at the time of writing is not delivered,
but which will probably be delivered to the Government