KUT Civil Censorship. 1915-18 Covers with "OPENED BY CENSOR / UNDER / MARTIAL LAW" seals (12), various colours and imprints comprising green on white paper (3, one with imprint of "Leader, Nairobi & Mombasa"), black on blue paper (2), black on grey paper (2), red on white or green paper both with imprint "The Standard P. & P. Works, Nairobi", black on yellow paper (2, imprints of "Leader, Nairobi & Mombasa" or "G.P.P. Nairobi - 2164/2/15 - 3m") or black on white paper with imprint of "The Standard P. & P. Works, Nairobi". Three covers are stampless O.A.S mail, with datestamps of Mombasa, Masaka or Indian F.P.O 52 (to Rhodesia). Also covers with censor cachets of Dar-es-Salaam, Entebbe, Mombasa or Kampala. (16).
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Tanganyika. 1918 Stampless cover to Switzerland, probably from an internee, with violet boxed "CENSOR / 21 MAY 1918 / Conquered Territory" and manuscript "Daressalaam" below, blue crayon "S", an "Opened By Censor" seal tied by Lausanne arrival c.d.s. Fine and very scarce, probably fewer than five examples of this censor cachet recorded. Photo on Page 180. (Image1)