History in the Post dt is almost a foregone conclusion that the ax-Emperor Karl's opera bouffe dash for the Hungarian, throne will have its sequel in special issue of postage stamps by the provisional Royalist Governeinamanger. Tha politudes of Hungary since the armistice are already vividly recorded in the stamp album.
The encarmined imprint "Koztarsasag" (republic), following the flight of the Emperor and Empress to Switzerland, was imposed on the postal issues of the erstwhile Hungarian kingdom until such time as the obsolete designation "Kir? (imperial) could be erased from the dies themselves. The Same stamps in due course were reissued bearing the, inscription "Magyar Posta'' only.
"Magyar Tanacs Mies A further overprint—readi
(Hungarian Soviet Republic) was struck with the advent of the Red republic under Bela Kum on the postage stamps, later gave place to a bizarre series of a definite character adorned with the effigies of Karl Mars and other Socialist leaders. The printing of these grotesque labels had to be suspend. ed after a few weeks, thus removing what the promoters had looked to As a source of considerable revenue in view of the world-wide demand by collectors. After the seizure of the main stocks of post. age stamps by the Bolsheviks it became necessary to distinguish those current in the areas under Allied occupation, and to this end local overprints were applied at. Arad, Barab and Temesvar by the French, Servian, and Rumanian authorities, and at Szegedin by the anti-Bolshevist Government of Count Hardy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.