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Auction: 21014 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 285

Straits Settlements
Covers and Cancellations
World War I P.O.W. Mail
1914 (21 Dec.) envelope to The Eastern Extension, Australian & China Telegraph Co. Ltd., showing Singapore despatch datestamp, "passed/commandant p. of "w." and "En franchise de taxe" handstamps in violet. Scarce. Photo

Note: At the outbreak of the First World War Singapore had a long established and thriving German mercantile community who were interned for the duration of hostilities at Tanglin. These numbers were later augmented by prisoners transferred from the captured German enclaves in China

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