1916 Serbia Swiss Postcard Red Cross

Code: B23271

Serbia: 1916 (7 June). 10c Swiss postal stationery card via Vienna to Red Cross Bureau in Belgrade  tied by Geneva datestamp and red Austrian censor cachet. Reverse  three lines bi-lingual Red Cross cachet says “it is allowed to write only through / mail to prisoner of war”. Message possibly from Salonica since ‘Hotel Terminus’ address commonly found on transit mail to and from occupied Serbia. Austrian were aware of corresponding with the enemy but under to Red Cross it had to be tolerated hence the cachet is Serbian and German.

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