Borneo & the Greater East. 9 Bogus and fantasy items like circular overprints made by postmaster The of Ambon, philatelic NICA Soemba overprints, etc. Intended as reference material

POW. Australia. Liberated Allied Prisoners of War awaiting repatriation. Envelope bearing handstamped POW+RC+/SINGAPORE using an Australian field post office facility to NSW, and a postage free American Red Cross envelope bearing PASSED FREE/OF POSTAGE via an Australian Army post to Ireland. (Jacobs LAPOW1 and LAPOWX)

POW. British Borneo. Three different POW cards from 1943 to the UK with Japanese and British censors (Jacobs BB1, BB2 and BB3)

POW. Burma. Post from a romusha. Japanese picture postcard used by a Burmese laborer. The cds indicates postage free use (Jacobs BR12)

POW. China. Postcard from an American internee of the Weihsien Camp on 24 April 1944 to his White Russian wife in Tientsin, received 29 May 1944, showing red Japanese censor. See: Norman Jacobs, Allied and Japanese POW, p.34

POW. China. POW card from the Shanghai camp 15 May 1943 to New York 10 Dec 1943, addressee left and card returned to sender on 14 Jan 1944. Japanese and American censors (Jacobs CH2)

POW. China. 5 Sen Admiral Togo on envelope including letter from Kowloon (Hong Kong) 10 June 1943 to 181 Avenue Dubail in Shanghai 11 Aug 1943, a camp known to foreigners as the Columbia Country Club before the Great Pacific War (Jacobs CH35)

POW. Hong Kong. Mimeographed postcard from the POW Camp N, Hong Kong Aug 1944, to a Miss in the Military Internment Camp Stanley. Censor seal Hasegawa (Jacobs HK5). Rare

POW. Hong Kong. 2 Sen postcard Horse and Rider from the Marina House, Hong Kong 12 Sep 1942, locally sent to the British Internment Camp Stanley (Jacobs HK23)

POW. Japan. Envelope from dad in San Rafael 13 Feb 1945 via New York 15 Feb to his son, an American POW in the Sendai Camp near Tokyo, with on the American censor label the Tokyo Camp censor and in the middle the Sendai Camp handstamp (Jacobs SE1). Rare

POW. Japan. An unusual Christmas Greeting from the Prime Minister of Canada (card and envelope) to a POW in the Tokyo Camp, received 16 Feb 1945 (Jacobs UF75)

POW. Malaya. POW card (no location designation) with printed message on reverse to Kilpauk, Madras, India 21 Nov 1943 (Jacobs MA1). Very rare

POW. Malaya. Biographical data form required of British Prisoners of War for Japanese records (Jacobs MA31). Rare document which we have not seen before

POW. Malaya. Pledge not to escape, completion coerced especially from Australian Prisoners of War (Jacobs MA32). Rare and bizarre document which we have not seen before

POW. Manchukuo. POW card from a son in the Hoten Camp to his parents in Temple (USA), undated but sent before the Great Pacific War, showing censors from Japan, Germany and the USA. See: Norman Jacobs, Allied and Japanese POW, p.30

POW. Philippines. POW card from an American officer in the Military Prison Camp No. 2 with on the reverse printed sentences to make a choice, to Los Angeles showing Japanese and American censors (Jacobs P1)