Evening star., 1939-10-01

dake. and the --sen shows vol
canic cones in the central crater Of
Mount Aso as seen from Kuju High
land.
This weeks broadcast Of the
Washington Stamp Club Of the Air,
heard over Station VOL on We'd
nesday evenings at O'Clock. win
feature a dramatization Of Richard
Wagner's operatic issue Of Germany,
1898.
There will be no further airmail
service to Newfoundland until the
resumption of transatlantic airmail
service over the northern route next
summer.
During the winter months PAN
American Airways will operate over
the southern Atlantic route. via Ber-
muda and the Azores, to Lisbon,
Portugal.
The 1910 Gibbons Catalogue is
one of the most interesting ever
published. There are 2913 new
stamps of the past twelvemonth and
q ,446 price changes.
j. A. Weston advises that the
Eighth Pan-American Child We'll
fare Congress has been postponed
by a decree of the President of Cos
ia Rica. and that the issue Of COM
memorative stamps will likewise be
postponed until such time as the
congress eventually takes place
The stamps already have been
printed by the American Bank Note
Co.
Danzig. reunited" to Germany,
apparently has ceased to be stamp
issuing country" Robert D.
Byrnes, philatelic editor of the
Hartford Courant, writes: TT is not
yet known whether Germany has
issued stamps commemorating the
union"
Referring to other potential de-
velopments resulting from the war,
the same authority continues: "Oc-
cupation stamps are definite clas-
sif1cation of war issues and are for
use in territory which is under
military occupation of an enemy
power. Sometimes the invading
force uses the stamps of its own
country with distinguishing over
print, the German stamps over
printed for use in Poland in 1915
being an example of this, and some-
times the invadin gforces find suf-
ficient stocks of stamps of the oc-
cupied country on hand in captured
post Offices to permit overprinting
these, the various Hungarian occu-
patton stamps being examples. .
Kent B. Stiles, philatelic editor
of the New York Times writes: mo
war of magnitude during the past
century has been fought without new
postal paper resulting, and the strug-
gle now in progress in Europe is not
expected by philatelists to prove an
exception. That numerous military,
political and economic developments
will necessitate the printing Of spe-
cial stamps is foregone conclusion,
In the opinion Of collectors who are
students of the hobby, and in the
light of World War precedent it does
not seem likely that the issuing of
such special postal items will be
confined to Europe.
Occupation, war tax, charity and
other classes of stamps appeared in
profusion during the 19l4-1918
period. With so many nations then
at war, literally thousands of new
stamps were issued, with all CONT
nents represented. If the current
struggle is confined to Britain and
the British Dominions, France, Po-
land and Germany, the philatelic
crop may not be as abundant as the
one quarter century ago, but that it
will include scores and perhaps hun
dreds of new stamps seems logical
expectation on the basis of the col
lector's knowledge of the reasons
why postal paper is issued under Ger
tain conditions"
The Mexican government, 1t has
been announced, win make . con.
trfhlItion" tn EhA iatArnafi0nA1