of three labels purporting
to be "new Belgian stamps, sold in Flanders only during two days.
The emission was very small, only 15,000 series, which were paid the
double of the nominal value, i.e., 70 centimes." The "stamps" are
figured 5 (green), 10 (red) and 25 (blue), but no "c" or centimes.
They bear within a fancy frame lettered BELGIQUE at top and BELGIE
below portraits of King Albert and his Consort (_Figs._ 214, 215).
Messrs. Alfred Smith & Son submitted these "stamps" to the Belgian
postal administration, and were told that not only are they not
official stamps, but that "they have apparently been obliterated
with a stolen or forged date-stamp." The "postmark" reads ROULERS--5
OCTO--18-19--1914.

The Belgian Government moved to Havre in France on October 13, 1914,
and there they have a special post office using the postmark _Fig._
216. The headquarters of the habitations of the Belgian Government are
reckoned part of Belgium, and while the Belgians may send letters to
their different addresses in Havre or to Belgium, for the unit rate of
10 centimes (1d.), letters for France, even for another part of Havre,
are treated as foreign letters, and require to be prepaid at the 25
centimes (2-1/2d.) rate.

There are also Belgian military postcards at present in use by the
soldiers, and a variety of military postmarks, of which _Fig._ 217 is
an example.

[Illustration: 216 217]

An interesting trio of covers has been received from a young marine
who was with the Naval Brigade at Antwerp. The first, dated October 6,
1914, has the postmark (_Fig._ 218).

[Illustration: 218 220]

On the 11th he was evidently interned in Leeuwarden (_Fig._ 220)
Holland, his letter being censored (_Fig._ 39). On the 27th he wrote
from Groningen, where most of the naval brigade men were interned. The
letter has the Groningen machine cancellation, and _Fig._ 221 struck
in violet:

PORTVRIJ
FRANC DE POST.
Militaires ['e]trangers
intern['e]s dans les Pays-Bas.

[Illustration: 221]

SERBIA. Revolutionary disturbances have assisted the changes of the
stamps of Serbia. Michael Obrenovich III., who figures on the issue
of 1866, was assassinated on June 10th, 1868, by the friends of the
abdicated prince, Alexander Karageorgevich. Milan IV., his successor,
had a troublous reign; during his period the country was recognised
as a kingdom with Milan as king, but he abdicated in 1889 in favour of
Alexander, his son. The portraits