Lot 10097 – 1902 Card to USA from American missionary in Manch

1902 Card to USA from American missionary in Manchuria posted on C.E.R. POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) (train ‘4’) 2 VII 02 cancelling 4k, interesting contents: « This is a strange country…cossack soldiers at the stations…chinamen in the opium fields (poppy)…heat and cholera everywhere » Note: The Harbin-Port Arthur line, with sea connections to America via Japan, was opened to traffic in February 1902