Lot 20072 – 1904 Peking viewcard endorsed “From the Active Arm

1904 Peking viewcard endorsed “From the Active Army” and written from HAI-CHENG to Finland with Abo arrival mark, violet circular free-frank cachet: 5th COMPANY No. 1/POST OFFICE ‘g’ 14 5 04 (date inverted). About 65km south of Lyaoyang, HAI-CHENG was the railway town where Lt. Gen. Baron Stackleburg, Commander of the 1st Siberian Army Corps had set up his HQ in a train. It was abandoned by the Russians in July, and in August became the HQ of the Japanese Field Marshall Oyama Iwao.