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CONTENTS

Motorised Transport of Mails across the Sahara, Part 1 (Peter Kelly)
Airmails from French India (Jeffrey Brown)
Postal Relationships between Belgian Congo and French Congo, Part 2 (Philippe Lindekens)  
Cameroun 27.8.40 - the Displaced Overprint from Mbanga (1) (Michel Collet)
Cameroun 27.8.40 - the Displaced Overprint from Mbanga (2) (Dudley Cobb)
Shorter Items:
 •  French Naval Forces in the Borneo Area (Jeremy Dickson)
 •  French Post Office in Tunisia - correction and addition (Peter Maybury)
 •  ROC Codes (John Simmons)
 •  British Stamp used in France (John Patch)
 •  German Date Stamp on French Semeuse Issue (Alan Wood)
 •  The 1871-1876 Cérès Issue, Imperforate (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Request for Exchange of Stamps (Daniel Hubert)
 •  Inaugural Seaplane Flight 1925 (Alan Wood)
 •  Red Cross Overprints on 10c Sower (Alan Wood)
 •  Interzone Cards and Postage Due (Barbara Priddy)
 •  Philatelic Cover with Many Postmarked Stamps but No Address (Howard Fisher)
 •  Togo Postcard with British and French Stamps (John Mayne)
 •  Green Leaves [new Ecology tariff] (John Simmons)

CONTENTS

Motorised Transport of Mails across the Sahara, Part 2 (Peter Kelly)

90 Years of Red Cross Booklets, Part 1 (John West)

Alsace-Lorraine: Selected Postal Legacies from the German Occupation of 1871-1918 (Stan Luft)

Postal Relationships between Belgian Congo and French Congo, Part 3 (Philippe Lindekens)

Ivory Coast - Journée Nationale des Cheminots 20-21 Mai 1945 (Bob Maddocks)

Shorter Items:

 •  Airmail Interzone Cards (Roy Reader)

 •  Syria under French Governance (Derek Atkins)

 •  Inaugural Seaplane Flight 1925 (Len Barnes)

 •  French Naval Forces in Borneo and the Far East: the French Light Cruiser Primauguet (Marty Bratzel)

 •  Togo: 'Après le départ' strike on Germman Mail (John Mayne)

 •  TRANSIT MATADI mark on cover from Belgian Congo (Philippe Lindekens)

CONTENTS

French Internment Camps: Drancy (Seine) (Derek Richardson)

Legion of French Volunteers (A Cautionary Tale) (Godfrey Bowden)

90 Years of Red Cross Booklets. Part 2 (John West)

Italian Forces in France in World War I, with particular reference to T.A.I.F. (David Trapnell)

Shorter Items:

 •  Syria Overprints (John Mayne, Stan Fairchild)
 •  Airmail Interzone Cards: corrigendum (Roy Reader)
 •  Ballon Monté - genuine? (Don Sherwin)
 •  French Congo Unknown cds ...DOMBO (Paul Watkins)
 •  Joint UK-France Stamps 1940 (Norman Greenbaum, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Interzone Cards to and from Indo-China (Ron Bentley, Roy Reader)

CONTENTS

Franco-Prussian War (1870-71): The Siege of Paris - Interrupted Mail (Philip Mackey)

The Gold Coast-type Cancels of Togo, 1916 - to 1950? (Bill Mitchell)

90 Years of Red Cross Booklets. Part 3 (John West)

A Rather Special (Semeuse) Postcard (Ashley Lawrence)

Shorter Items:
French Congo Unknown cds ...DOMBO (Michael Ensor, Paul Watkins, Ed Grabowski, Bill Mitchell)
 •  Ballon Monté - genuine? (The Mrs Simpson Letter) (Mike Brindle, Ashley Lawrence)
 •  Joint UK-France Stamps 1940 (Roy Reader)
 •  Postal Relationships between Belgian Congo and French Congo (John Mayne)

CONTENTS

Autumn Stampex 2013: Keynote Display by the Society (description of displays by 22 members)

The 1 Franc Cécogramme Rate (Mick Bister)

Shorter Items:
 •  New Hebrides card in code (Stan Luft, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Joint UK-France Stamps 1940 (Mick Bister)
 •  Missent Mail (Mick Bister)

 •  Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) (Stan Fairchild, Tom Waterman, Philip Mackey)
 •  The Gold Coast-type Cancels of Togo (John Mayne)

 •  1934 Airmail cover from the Gambia with boxed Après le Départ strike (John Mayne)
 •  Unusual Sowers (Ashley Lawrence)
 •  French Occupation of Cilicia: Censor marks and stamp usage with earliest dates seen (Bob Bradford)

 •  WWII Mail from France to Indo-China (Mick Bister)

 •  Albert Stiefel (David Hogarth)

CONTENTS

French Telegrams (Alan Wood)

The Boulanger Affair (Peter Kelly)

Professor A Victor Segno: A Note of Explanation (Ed Grabowski)

Le Type Pasteur - the 75 centimes blue (Yvert 177, SG 400) (Bill Mitchell)

"Cluedo" - A Whodunit? from the Siege of Paris (Ashley Lawrence)

90 Years of Red Cross Booklets. Part 4 (John West)

Shorter Items:
 •  When did these wars start? (Alan Wood)
 •  New Hebrides card (John Mayne)
 •  A Ban-Breaking Cover from France to the UK in 1943 (Roy Reader)
 •  Post Offices in Egypt (John Cruttenden)
 •  Cameroun Français 27.8.40 - the "+10c" Trial on the 90c Elephants Stamp (Dudley Cobb)
 •  Bathyscaphe Archimède 1963 (Jouko Moisala)

 •  An Alternative Service UK to France (John Simmons, Maurice Tyler)

CONTENTS

90 Years of Red Cross Booklets. Part 5 (John West)

A Design from Paris, 1870 (Ashley Lawrence)

The Second World War in Alsace-Moselle (Stan Luft)

Shorter Items:

 •  When did these wars start? (Ashley Lawrence, James Camak, Harris Rosenberg, Roy Reader, David Trapnell)
 •  Post Offices in Egypt (Mick Bister)
 •  Forwarding Mail - No Profit is Too Small (John Simmons)
 •  Professor A Victor Segno: Comments, and Griffe Mark (John Mayne)
 •  Vignettes for French Cameroon and Togo 1914-1916 (John Mayne)
 •  Lt. Colonel Loyd-Lindsay VC (Alan Wood)
 •  Madagascar 1921 1c Overprint on 15c (Robert Mustachic)

CONTENTS

United States Mail to France in World War II, Part I (Lawrence Sherman)
The Postal Treatment of Journals and Periodicals in France: The Type Sage Issue of France 1876-1900 (Peter Kelly)
Private Labels of the Upper Ubangi 1898-1899 (Luc Vander Marcken)
Douala to Marseille - A Multifaceted 1936 Air Mail Cover (Marty Bratzel)
The Postal History of PA Arromanches 1945-1974 (David Trapnell)
Shorter Items:
 •  France Packet Accounts for 2012 (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Vignettes for French Cameroon and Togo 1914-1916  (Harris Rosenberg)
•  The Second World War in Alsace-Moselle (Maurice Tyler)
•  Boulogne-sur-Mer + BM in oval - A New Discovery? (Peter Kelly)
•  Griffe (Chris Hitchen)
 •  Correspondence at Petit Popo in Togo (John Mayne)
 •  Lack of RF Overprint of 1944 on dated corner block (Anthony Greaves)
 •  World War I and the role of Togo (John Mayne)
 •  40c Cérès brown? (Ken Dixon)

CONTENTS

The History of the Red Cross Stamp Issue in the Former French Colonies and French Post Offices Abroad during the First World War (André Métayer)

Detoured Alsace-Lorraine Mail - 1870 and Beyond (Stan Luft)

United States Mail to France in World War II, Part II (Lawrence Sherman)

Everywhere but Greece: The Travels of Two World War II Cameroun Airmails to Greece, Returned Due to the Suspension of Services (Adrian Ritoridis)

Shorter Items:
 •  West African Airmail to Marseille Transiting at Niamey (Barbara Priddy)
 •  Lack of RF Overprint of 1944 on Dated Corner Block  (Richard Broadhurst, Mick Bister)
 •  Cameroun Postmark Identification - Help Please (Marty Bratzel)
 •  Cameroun Mail (John Mayne)
 •  Togo - the 1921 issues, perhaps the last word? (John Mayne)

 •  Importance of Surnames (George Truell)

 •  World War II Map of Occupied France (David Trapnell)

CONTENTS

The Carton de Wiarts and Belgian Postal Services in France in the First World War (Bill Mitchell)

A Review of the State of the N^o 3154 Cancellation as Used in Ecuador (Stan Luft)

Gabon: The Development of the Postal Services 1862-1889 (John Yeomans)

Newspaper Wrappers of France: Supply and Demand (John Courtis)

French Forces and the air mails of Tunisia, 1919-1956 (David Trapnell)

Shorter Items:
 •  Philatecam 1971 in Cameroun (Marty Bratzel)
•  Lack of RF Overprint of 1944 on Dated Corner Block  (John Simmons)
 •  Identification and Catalogue References sought for Comoro Islands stamps (John Mayne)