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In 1919: Versailles Treaty; Prohibition starts in the U.S.; dial telephones introduced in U.S.; United

Artists formed; first pop-up toaster & food blender; Nat King Cole, Liberace and J. D. Salinger born.

At the RPSL: A dinner w as held on lOth April to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Society, fifty

years to the day since its formation. 99 members and t heir guests attended.

RPSL President was E. D. Bacon M.V.O. Patron H.M. King George V. Membership 318.

TAN NU URIANKHAI UNDER CHINESE ADMINISTRATION

From t he collection of Jian Jiang.

Member since 2012. Lives in Peoples' Republic of China.

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Tannu Uriankhai was a Chinese Empire territory in northwest Mongolia. Tsarist Russia sent troops and made

the area a protectorate in April 1914. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, Uriankhai was occupied by

"White" Russian troops. Chinese troops entered southwestern Uriankhai and established control in most parts

of the territory on 22nd June 1919. This is an official cover sent from Chinese Governor Yan Shi-Ch'ao in

Chiata to a Russian officer stationed in Uriankhai on 9th August 1919. Because of the very short period of

Chinese control, postal history of this sort is almost unknown.