Lot 327

1919 Siyusze (8 Jan) to Shanghai. ROC 3c stationery cover (Han 6), tied by Siyusze bilingual cds. On reverse with Siyusze POW camp oval seal. Transit Peking. Arrived Shanghai (11 Jan). From October 1918 to 1919, about one hundred German people were held in Siyu Temple in Peking. Mails form the POW camp are scarce.

1919.1.8 西峪寺寄上海。民國3分郵製信箋（韓目6），銷西峪寺腰框英漢日戳，背鈐“西峪寺敵國人民管理處”橢圓形戳記。經北京。1.11抵上海。在1918年10月至1919年間，約一百名德國人被拘留於北京西峪寺，郵例較為少見難得。