1942-46 Red Cross message forms sent from Arthur Fischer in Ward Road, Shanghai, to Mario Wolf in Vienna (2), and the reply portions of lettersheets from Vienna sent back to Fischer in Shanghai (3), all with oval "COMITE INTERNATIONAL / SHANGHAI / CROIX ROUGE", other cachets include "Far Eastern Jewish Central / Information Bureau for Emigrants / "DALJEWCIE-HICEM", SHANGHAI", one reply message not received until January 1947. Fischer writes in German but indicates he has no nationality, his German nationality presumably being withdrawn by the Nazis because he was Jewish; there was an Internment Camp in Ward Road, though it is unclear whether he was an internee in that camp. An interesting correspondence. (5).
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1944 Registered cover with printed heading "INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS COMMITTEE, GENEVA / DELEGATION IN THE FAR EAST / VICTORY HOUSE / CHUNGKING", handstamped "PRISONER OF WAR SERVICE", registered from Chungking to the Red Cross Delegate in Shanghai franked 11c, arrival c.d.s, registration label on reverse. Also a British Residents Association of China membership card for 1941. (2).
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1941-45 Covers and a card comprising 1941 covers from U.S.A to Eugene De Turck, Radio Operator on the U.S Ship "Vincent", posted in August endorsed "Not on Board Chant" and "Perida" and returned, or December 1st to the S.S "Vincent" endorsed "This ship greatly overdue, regret presumed lost" (stamps cut out); 1945 (Aug) stampless P.O.W lettersheet from the USA to De Turck held by the Japanese at Shanghai, with "RETURN TO SENDER / UNDELIVERABLE AS / ADDRESSED"; and an unusual preprinted International Red Cross Committee P.O.W cover, also intended to be used for returning a reply, sent to De Turck at Woosung, with a Japanese censor cachet, received November 1942. The S.S "Vincent" was sunk by two Japanese cruisers on December 12th 1941 near Pitcairn Island. (4). Photo on Page 84. (Image1)
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1942-44 6c Air Mail postal stationery envelope (with long enclosed letter) from Ohio to "Sgt. G.A de Tallentire, U.S Marine Corps, formerly of Wake Island, interned near Shanghai", and a stampless cover to J.V Castleton U.S.N, Shanghai War Prisoner Camp, both with Japanese censor cachets. (2).
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1942-44 Stampless covers from USA to Chalas Loveland, an American civilian internee in Shanghai, addressed to Woosung War Prisoners Camp, Kiang Wan War Prisoners Camp, or "Field Post Office, Box 106, China", all with Japanese censor cachets, one censored in Germany. (3).
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1945 Long stampless cover endorsed "Internee Mail", from a British internee at Lincoln Avenue Civil Assembly Centre to another internee at Camp "C", Yangchow Civil Assembly Centre, with violet boxed "Internee mail free / of postage / Shanghai P.O" and a Shanghai backstamp.