Geneva Winter Specialised Auction Series - Russian Post Offices and rarities

1902 Card to USA from American missionary in Manchuria posted on C.E.R. POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) (train '4') 2 VII 02 cancelling 4k, interesting contents: "This is a strange country...cossack soldiers at the stations...chinamen in the opium fields (poppy)...heat and cholera everywhere"
Note: The Harbin-Port Arthur line, with sea connections to America via Japan, was opened to traffic in February 1902

1902年明信片由滿州里美國傳道使寄美國，銷CER郵政火車第265(哈爾濱-旅大)'4'，2.VII.02戳於4戈比票，附訊息「有趣之國家…火車站士兵…中國人於鴉片…每處都有霍亂。 備註：於1902年2月，哈爾濱至旅大線，經日本由海船至美國。