88 pp. - colour ill. - softbound - printed 2018
Italian text
WITH RANGE OF VALUATION OF POSTMARKS AND LABELS

THE CENSORSHIP OF FOREIGN MAIL IN ITALY
DURING WWI
Series: I Quaderni dell'Aicpm - n.8, 2018

With the collaboration by Beniamino Cadioli

On 23 May 1915, the day before Italy entered into WWI, the Italian Government proposed to the King the enactment of Royal decree no.689, by means of which postal censorship was established. Such decree is reported herein, together with the Regulation for the exercise of the censorship of mail from abroad and outbound.

The activity of censorship was indeed addressed mainly to correspondence coming from or going abroad. This led to the establishment on the Italian territory of appropriate foreign mail offices of military censorship in places conveniently selected and here pointed out: Bologna, Bologna - Rimini section, Milan, Genoa, Campione d'Italia, Ponte Chiasso, Valona, Trieste.

Almost one hundred are the covers and the postcards reproduced, with the relevant postmarks enlarged and highlighted, divided and catalogued by town.