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CONTENTS

French Internment Camps (continued): Chapter 17 - Camp de Choisel - Châteaubriant (Derek Richardson)
Cécogrammes (Mick Bister, with Franz-Karl Lindner)
Shorter Items:
 •  An Unusual Senegal Item (John Mayne)
 •  Much Travelled Mail - Italy to Ivory Coast (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Pierre and Marie Curie Stamp of 1938 (Ronald Hill, Maurice Tyler)

 •  Jeu de Barres (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Forged 1925 International Philatelic Exhibition Sheetlet (Bob Paterson)
 •  Marianne de Gandon 'à la bretelle' Variety (John Dickson, Michael Meadowcroft)
 •  Togo Cancellations (John Mayne)
 •  World War I Initials on POW Mail (John West, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Composition of la France d'Outre-mer (Bill Mitchell)

 •  The Ecological Counter Booklet (continued) (John Simmons)
 •  French Guinea Post Offices (Peter Kelly, Michael Round)

 •  Comoro Islands Display (Michael Round)

 •  The Algerian Centenary Album of 1930 (Iain Stevenson)

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Cameroun Taxe Marks (Marty Bratzel)
'Detained in France during German Occupation' - an Update (Roy Reader)
Boules de Moulins (Ashley Lawrence)
Printed Envelopes with Directional Markings from Saigon (Ian McQueen)
Shorter Items:
 •  Demonetised Madagascar Red Cross Stamp (John West)
 •  French Guinea Post Offices (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)
 •  French Congo Pigeon Post (John Yeomans)
 •  A Likely Story! of a PRIORity Cover (John Simmons)
 •  French West Africa - the 1940 Airmail Stamps (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Forged 1925 International Philatelic Exhibition Sheetlet (Geoff Gethin, Ralph Barracano, George Barker)
 •  More on the Dallay Europe/Asia Catalogue and the Perf 11 Pictorials (Michael Round)
 •  "T.O.M.O." on 1921 Morocco Cover (John Smith)
 •  Hexagonal Censorship Mark in French Occupied Zone of Germany (Charles Karsten)
 •  Comoro Islands Display (Ralph Barracano)

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News from Paris: The New Marianne de Beaujard; Exprès Covers (John Simmons)
Yvert Levant No. 26 cancelled DIRRE-DAOUA (David Jennings-Bramly)
World War II - Just Another Sad Story (Bill Mitchell)
An Unknown Tariff - Correspondence between Tahiti and France Oct. 1867 - Apr. 1875 (Michèle Chauvet, trs Maurice Tyler)
Cameroun - Meteorological Manifestations, Publicity Cachets, and de Laurence Notations (Marty Bratzel)
Where There's a Will (Mike Roberts)
Shorter Items:
 •  Mauritania Postage Dues of 1906 (John Mayne)
 •  French Morocco Cover with Swiss Postage Due and Boxed 'T' Mark (John Mayne)
 •  Jean-Baptiste Say (John Garner, Maurice Tyler)
 •  "T.O.M.O." on 1921 Morocco Cover (Alan Wood, Bob Deakin, David Taylor Smith)
 •  A Fantasised Cameroun Française Canceller Used on Madagascar Stamps (Bob Maddocks)
 •  Forged 1925 International Philatelic Exhibition Sheetlet (Ralph Barracano)
 •  Much Travelled Mail - Italy to Ivory Coast (Peter Kelly, Bill Mitchell)
 •  Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace (Godfrey Bowden, Maurice Tyler)

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Mauritania and those Taxe marks (Stephen Holder)
Postal Rate Changes of 1st March 2008 (Derek Richardson)
French Transatlantic Mail 1800-1857 (Steve Ellis)
Dahomey Internal Communications at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Bill Mitchell) 
Shorter Items:
 •  German Taxe Marks on Togo and Cameroon Mail (John Mayne, Marty Bratzel)
 •  An Unknown Overprint on the 2F Merson? (Geoff Gethin)
 •  Mauritania Postage Dues of 1906 (Ed Grabowski)
 •  An Odd Meter Franking - a possible explanation (John Simmons)
 •  Military Franchise Letter from Far East to Occupied Germany (John Garner, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Togo - the 1921 Issue (John Mayne)
 •  Censor Marks from WWI (Johan Delbeke)
 •  Postage Stamps of the French National Liberation Committee, Algiers, in WWII (Colin Spong)
 •  Marianne de Gandon 'à la bretelle' Variety (Michael Meadowcroft, Jean-François Brun)

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The Postal Complexities of 1947 (André Métayer, trs Mick Bister)

Togo 1914-1922 - Postal Stationery (John Mayne)
Shorter Items:
 •  Postage Stamps of the French National Liberation Committee, Algiers, in WWII (John Mayne)
 •  French Somali Coast Cover (David Hogarth, Maurice Tyler)
 •  French Tourist Vignettes (Alan Wood)
 •  German Taxe Marks on Togo and Kamerun/Cameroun Mail (Bob Maddocks)

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Tracing Service Reply Labels (John West)
Airmail Routes and Rates from Cameroun to the UK during World War II (Marty Bratzel & Bob Picirilli)
Postage Stamps of the French National Liberation Committee, Algiers, in WWII (Bill Mitchell)
Shorter Items:
 •  Booklet Publicity Tabs (John Mayne)
 •  SS Normandie Machine Cancel (Richard Small)
 •  WWII Airmail Stamps from French Equatorial Africa (Michael Barden)
 •  Encore le Franc ! [stamps in francs on recent mail] (Jim Moffatt)
 •  Comment on FM Letter from Far East to Occupied Germany (Roy Reader)
 •  Unusual Cachet on Morocco Registered Airmail Cover (David Taylor Smith)
 •  New Caledonia Postage Stamps of the FNLC, Algiers, in WWII (Bob Maddocks)

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AR (Avis de Réception) in the Early 20th Century (Bill Mitchell)
Early Airmails from France (John Garner)
Early Usage of French Postage Due Stamps in the French Sphere of Occupied Kamerun (Bob Maddocks)
An Automatic Machine for the Registration of Letters in 1909 (Chris Hitchen)
Modern Post Offices in Cameroon (Marc Parren)
Shorter Items:
 •  Booklet Publicity Tabs (Michael Meadowcroft, Bob Heasman, John Allison, Richard Broadhurst, John Lucaci, Mick Bister)
 •  30c Rose Sower with Fake ALGÉRIE Overprint (Jean-Jacques Sastres, trs Maurice Tyler, rptd Peter Maybury)
 •  Problem Solved - French India to Belgium (Ron Wood)
 •  Postal Aberrations (Roy Reader)
 •  WWII Airmail Rates from French Equatorial Africa (Michael Barden)
 •  Fiscal Stamps used for Postage (Johan Delbeke)
 •  Cameroun Sterling Stamp Appeal (Marty Bratzel)
 •  When is a Stamp not a Stamp? (John Simmons)
 •  Two Bogus Tunisian Stamps (Johan Delbeke)

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French Postal Rates of 2 March 2009 (Derek Richardson)
A "QSL" Card from Cameroun Radio Ham FQ-PM (Bob Maddocks)
Cameroun - Envelope Recycling in World War II (Bill Mitchell)
Airmails of the French Congo (John Hammonds)
Shorter Items:
 •  Après le Départ Mark (John Mayne)
 •  Paris Olympics 1924 (John Mayne)
 •  Booklet Publicity Tabs (John Simmons)
 •  Moroccan War Issue 1943 (Bob Deakin)
 •  Early Airmails from France (John Garner)
 •  Chandernagor to Namur (David Jennings-Bramly)
 •  World War II Letters from Paris (Patrick Hills)
 •  Cameroun to Gabon 1916 (Jeremy Martin)
 •  German Taxe Mark used in Cameroun 1955 (John Mayne)

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Reminiscences of the Early Days (George Barker, Mick Bister, Chris Easton, Ray Hill, Harold Hilton, John Mayne, Bill Mitchell, Heloise Mitchell) 23 Years Ago [photos at Society competition evening]
The Development of the Services of the Postes et Télégraphes in Sénégambie-Niger 1900-1903 (Peter Kelly)
A Few Months after the Abolition of Slavery, a Letter from St Lucia to France (Robert Abensur, trs Peter Kelly)
An unusual articles d'argent letter of 1779 (Peter Maybury)
From Senegal to the Mexican Expedition of 1863... Looking for Naval Surgeon Moinet (Michèle Chauvet, trs Peter Kelly) Postes, Prost and Pétain (Mick Bister)
Vacillations of a Minister [new 10c Sower 1906](André Métayer, trs Mick Bister)
So Who Was Mr Kidder? [Siege of Paris correspondence] (Ashley Lawrence)
Martinique: The 'Ordonnance' (Order) of 24 April - 14 May 1835 (Guy Dutau, trs Peter Kelly)
Shorter Items:
 •  Airmails of the French Congo (Bob Picirilli)
 •  Identification of Classic Stamps (Ken Dixon)
 •  Defaced Stamps (Mike Roberts, Maurice Tyler)
 •  WWII Cover from Vichy France to Greenland (Wilbur Jonsson)
 •  SÉNÉGAL Diagonal Overprint of 1884 (Bruno Mattei)
 •  1924 Paris Olympics Labels (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  New Philatelic Website [for Alsace-Lorraine] (Roy Reader)
 •  WWII Airmail Rates from French Equatorial Africa (Bob Picirilli)

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Thai Pilots in France in WWII (John Garner)
Cameroun 2005 Provisional Year Slugs (Marc Parren)
Yvert 137 as a Postage Due in 1917 (David Jennings-Bramly)
General Leclerc in Cameroun and Tchad 1940-42 (Bob Maddocks)
French Colonies in World War II - What was the Milliard de la Libération? (Bill Mitchell)
Shorter Items:
 •  Strange Use of 3154 Handstamp of Rixholm (Haut-Rhin) (Bryan Wood)
 •  Union des Fabricants Label (Godfrey Bowden, Maurice Tyler)
 •  The SS Donai between Bangkok and Saigon (John Garner)
 •  WWII Cover Algeria to Gambia and Bureau Naval 53 (Stewart Duncan, Rob May, Maurice Tyler, Barbara Priddy)
 •  German Stationery Used in Occupied Cameroun and Togo (John Mayne)
 •  Dahomey Issues Used in Togo 1914-1922 (John Mayne)
 •  2F20 Liberté de Gandon Type IB (James Camak)