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1948 (May 20) Plain envelope to Dutch soldier & returned to sender bearing Nations United for Victory 2c + Joseph Pulitzer 3c tied Brook;yn N.Y. machine date stamp with Batavia Centrum (24 Jun) arrival cds + triangular Veldpost /Batavia hand stamp with manuscript annotations in an attempt to locate the soldier that failed so envelope opened & resealed with plain pink violet label which bears various manuscript notes stating Opened and Examined prior to affixing return label together with boxed Retour Afzendem /Onbekend + boxed Terug Afzender /Retour a l’ Expediteur hand stamps both in violet & Veldpost-Batavia (22 Jul) cds + brown Return label ……….At the end of WW2 a guerilla war was waged against colonial Dutch powers