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At no time during the War were unoverprinted stamps used in Bahrain,
and these forged cancellations were applied to previously-used Indian
stamps of the 1937 (4a., Rl., Rs2., Rs5) and 1940 (white background)
issues.

PASSED BY CENSOR

BAHRAIN

Bahrain Censor hand-stamp known used from 1940.

The importance of Bahrain as a Naval Base was reflected in the
early establishment of postal censorship in 1940. For reasons unknown,
mail to India was censored on arrival at Bombay or Karachi and
the Bahrain Censor hand-stamp appears to have been used only on mail
going westwards; but it is also known on an inward registered letter
received from Dubai in March 1943.

The Airgraph Service was available for civilian use by September
1942. They were written on standard forms (Instructions in English
only) and the Bahrain date-stamp (Type 5C) sometimes appears to the

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