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7.2 ... in difficult times Scouts have delivered the mail often at danger to themselves

Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the first ~~~~~~~~) '---~~~~~~(~
president of the new ly formed
Czech-S lovak republic returned to
Prague on 2 1 December, 1918
after four years in exile.
The Scout Mail Delivery Service
was reinstated on thi s day only.

Ove1prin1ed "Pfijezd I presiden1a I Masa1yka. ", meaning Genuine stamp with forged
overprint. Blurred printing
"Return of President Masaryk",for use on 21 Dec. 1918. and differences in letters.

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011/y eight telegramsfra11ked with overprillled stamps are recorded. Translation ofthe telegram, which is sent from Ceske Budejovice to a (e)
newspaper in Prague: "One o'clock three cannon-shots made known that president Masaryk had passed the frontier and is on Czech soil. "