Lot 20090 – 1904 Viewcard of Harbin Wharf to Finland with viol

1904 Viewcard of Harbin Wharf to Finland with violet circular free-frank cachet of COMMANDER/MACHINE-GUN COMPANY/5th EAST SIBERIAN DIVISION, postmarked DALNY KWANTUNG OBLAST/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 25 VI 1904, Helsinki arrival alongside. The writer of the card was travelling south, probably to join his unit, which was in action at the battle of Hsi-mu-cheng a few weeks later. Dalny had been evacuated by the Russians in May 1904 and its railway post office relocated at KUNGCHULING on the CER north of Tiehling.