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| | SHP Article 31:3_3 |
 | | Starting in 1918, Hungarian stamps were overprinted by Italian, Croatian, Serb, Rumanian, Czecho-Slovak, French, and Austrian authorities, some of whom were representatives of an official government or of a military force or of a postal directorate or just plain village entrepreneurs. |
 | | Also, the Hungarian Red Army had achieved military victories against the Czech in the north, contributed to the establishment of the Slovak Republic of the Councils, and was mobilizing to face the Rumanians moving into the Great Hungarian Plain. |
 | | Hungarian and Austrian postage remnants, having lost their postal validity on 28 February 1919, were collected and overprinted by Czech postal authorities in Prague. |
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