Lot 20228 – 1905 3k Stationery card written from “St. Gun’zhul

1905 3k Stationery card written from “St. Gun’zhulin (=GUNCHULIN; KUNGCHULING), Chinese Eastern Railway” 10 March 1905. Cancelled blue-green TIEHLING FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT cds. Tiehling was put to the torch and abandoned by the Russians ahead of the Japanese advance. Their Commander in Chief, General Kuropatkin, departed by train with his staff to set up defensive lines at Kungchuling, 200km to the north. This card, written a week after the Japanese had entered Tiehling (16 3 05), indicates that the Field Post and Telegraph Office had also moved to St. Kungchuling, though continuing to use the Tiehling canceller.