PICTURES ON STAMPS
"A Spectator's Notebook" of your issue of November 5th you mentioned about a new issue of Polish stamps, and also pointed out that you are " not clear where, if anywhere, the stamps can be used for postal purposes at present." I have, therefore, much pleasure in sending you this letter which, having been posted on a Polish ship, is franked with Polish postage stamps. The fact that the British Postal Authorities deliver this letter to you should be satisfactory proof that the Polish stamps are valid for genuine postal services. They are ' issued by the Polish Postal Service operating, in accordance with the terms of the Universal Postal Convention, on Polish warships and merchant shipS which are recognised by international law as Polish sovereign territory.
The Polish stamps can, however, be postally used not only by those on board a Polish ship, but also, in virtue of special arrangements made with the -British authorities, by Polish soldiers and airmen in Great Britain. On certain days letters collected in the Polish camps are sent aboard a Polish warship, to be franked there with Polish stamps and posted to destinations all over the world.—I am, your obedient
servant, T. JANTA-POLCZYNSKI,
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