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U.S. NAVY AND MkRINE CORPS CENSORSHIP

HANDSTAMPS AND POSTMARKS .
Poster - M-USNC 2 (iv)

fu t h :Ls sub-type the Letters "R. I . 11 appear within the
circle having been added in manuscri~t, and as these have
been carefully added, it is believed that they do not

represent tne ini-tials of an Examiner.
It has been suggested that the ' R. I." denotes a senior
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censorship officer, such a.s a Regional Inspector, who added

this notation to M-USNC 2 (i), where the E:xamiher had failed
to place eitber a tic~ or initi al.

It should be added that in t~e U.S. Censorship Ser vice
t here were officers known as "Inspectors" , whose function
it was to ma.ke random checks on the mail which had already

b~en censored, io make sure all was in order. T.his
notation of ''R. I . " has also been recorded on Qther .American

cen sored mail . +
E:KD: 27/12/1941 L\(1): 13/4/1942