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Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the ROC, 1941, by Post

Posted: March 10th, 2023 | No Comments »

A letter sent from Hankow to Shanghai in 1941 (to Mr Thompson who was fortunate enough to reside at the time in the Embankment Building on Soochow Creek) which is intersting as it shows the cancellation stamps in Chinese and English commemorating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China in 1911. This sort of thing would of course not have been allowed after December 1941.



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