https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68008 Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:11:40 GMT 2026-04-27T11:11:40Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68214 Title: Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society : no. 42(1) : April 2013 Editors: Bonnici, Alfred Abstract: Table of contents: 1/ DE BATTISTA, J. V. - An interesting photograph with a postal history link -- 2/ GARROD, D. - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge : the past revisited -- 3/ PARREN, M. - Submarine warfare during WWI : survivors of the SS Magellan December 1916 -- 4/ PARREN, M. - SMS Emden : how a German royal letter ended up in Malta during WWI -- 5/ ROSTRON, R. A. - Some pitfalls and traps to be avoided in stamp collecting -- 6/ PARREN, M. - British diplomacy at the Balkans during WWI -- 7/ HAYHURST, J. D. - The pneumatic post of Paris : part 1 -- 8/ FENECH, J. - Postal diary : 22nd October 2011 - 29th February 2012. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68214 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68186 Title: Postal diary : 22nd October 2011 - 29th February 2012 Abstract: The official diary of the Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society covering the period of 22nd October 2011 - 29th February 2012. This section contains chronological facts related to the postal services in Malta including the opening and closing of sub-post offices, commemorative handstamps and cancellations issued for special occasions, issues of new stamps, MaltaPost press releases and other philatelic miscellanea. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68186 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68185 Title: The pneumatic post of Paris : part 1 Abstract: The first half of the 19th century saw an unprecedented acceleration of communication through the introduction of the electric telegraph. Its principal application was to commercial intelligence for the merchants on the stock exchanges for whom fortunes could be won by the receipt of advance information, but the gain in speed from the telegraph could be lost if a message took a long time to get from the telegraph office to the stock exchange. It was to avoid this delay that in 1853 J. Latimer Clark installed a 220 yard long pneumatic tube connecting the London Stock Exchange in Threadneedle Street with the Central Station in Lothbury of the Electric Telegraph Company which had been incorporated in 1846. There were similar installations in Berlin in 1865 between the Central Telegraph Office and the Stock Exchange, and in 1866 in Paris out of the place de la Bourse. [excerpt] Description: Continued in August 2013 issue. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68185 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68183 Title: British diplomacy at the Balkans during WWI Abstract: On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student, assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The political objective of the assassination was to break the Austro-Hungarian's south-Slav provinces off from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The assassination triggered a chain of events that embroiled Russia and the major European powers. The dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia escalated into what is now known as World War I, which involved Russia, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Within a week, Austria-Hungary had to face a war with Russia, which had the largest army in the world at the time. The result was that Serbia became just another front to the massive fight that started to unfold along Austria-Hungary's border with Russia. [excerpt] Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/68183 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z