Type IB5 Purple Censor Mark
Showa date "18-5-2" (May 2, 1942)
With "SUMITANI" Vermilion Personal
Seal
May 17, 1943: Iloilo to Manila commercial
cover quadruple domestic rated
using 5c Provisional x 4. Privately
received, June 3, 1943.
Censor mark also applied on covers
from Antique and Capiz.
Garrett reports that a certain Sergeant
Major Sumitani Yoshiaki of the Iloilo Kempei
Buntai was tired, sentenced to death
and hanged as a war criminal by the War Crimes Commission after the Liberation
for atrocities committed to the Filipinos during the quelling of guerrilla
activities by the Japanese Imperial Army Forces between late 1942 to early
1943. |
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