China 1941 Censor Airmail Eurasia Hami-Alma/Ata-Moscow Cover Yunnanfu to Germany

Description: 1941 WWII Censored Airmail Eurasia Cover - Kunming, Yunnanfu - Chungking to Germany Via Hami - Alma/Ata - Moscow, arrived in Berlin on 22/05/1941 Very Rare Cover!As per the very informative article "Air Transport of Mail between China and Western Europe Via the U.S.S.R. - The Eurasia and Hamiata Air Routes", by: G. Adolph Ackerman, published in Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately, No. 126, April 1996:"As war broke out in Europe and China continued its struggle against the invading Japanese, a short-lived commercial air link between China and Western Europe (Germany) via the Soviet Union was established in late 1939. The intention of the Alma Ata-Hami air route was to provide a more rapid and direct link between Germany and China than was possible after the invasion of Poland (September 1939) and the beginning of the military conflict in Western Europe. Since the U.S.S.R. and Germany were bound by their non-aggression pact (1939), rapid communication links to the Far East seemed feasible across the U.S.S.R. Negotiations resulted in the formation of the Sino-Soviet (Hamiata) airline. Immediately after the inaugural Alma Ata-Hami flight (6 December 1939), postal service was suspended for over three months while airmail contract agreements between the Soviet Postal Administration and the Hamiata Company were concluded. Dispatching of mail on this line began on 8 April 1940 and continued until 3 July 1941, two weeks after the German invasion of the Soviet Union (22 June 1941). Thus, air service over this Sino-Soviet route between Alma Ata and Hami was rather short-lived and surviving mail is extremely scarce. In China, the airline from Hami connected to Chungking via Lanchow."Credit is to the very informative article: "Air Transport of Mail between China and Western Europe Via the U.S.S.R. - The Eurasia and Hamiata Air Routes", by: G. Adolph Ackerman, published in Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately, No. 126, April 1996.

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