Gummed Labels

Censoring Method
Back flap reseal with Japanese text 
"Nippon Kempeitai Ken'etzu Zumi" or "Censored by the Japanese Military Police Corps".

CATBALOGAN, SAMAR to MANILA                                     18 MARCH, 1943
Official mail censored with a reseal tape on reverse. 
Received in manuscript "4-9-43"

TO DATE ONLY THREE RECORDED 
SECOND EARLIEST USE

No record can be found designating the Catbalogan Post Office as a post office of
censorship as earlier covers from Catbalogan were censored in Tacloban, Leyte. 
However, records indicate that a Japanese squad of 35 men was stationed at
Catbalogan, and could have been detailed to censoring duty.