Lot 20366 – 1906 Japanese card to Finland with message in Finn

1906 Japanese card to Finland with message in Finnish dated 28 II 1906. Double-circle free-frank cachet in red reading: FIELD POST AND TELEGRAPH ADMINISTRATION AT THE REAR OF THE MANCHURIAN ARMIES, Kuopio arrival 5 IV 1906 (=23 III 1906 Old Style). When the post-telegraph administrations of all three Manchurian armies were disbanded at the beginning of 1906 all their field post-telegraph networks came under the Rear Administration, based at HARBIN. This in turn was abolished in July 1906 after the majority of Russian troops had been evacuated from Manchuria.