Wartime incoming civilian mail: 22.7.40 [official] reg. surface cv ex Foreign Ministry in ...

Wartime incoming civilian mail: 22.7.40 [official] reg. surface cv ex Foreign Ministry in Soviet-occupied RIGA to Latvian Consul in JERUSALEM on FM stationary, franked 96 Sant. (75s int'l reg. lett + 2x10s add. weight) tied by 3 strikes of local pmk; marked "via USSR" as occupied Latvia on 17 June & annexed it 5 Aug.; b/s 13 AU 40 REG HAIFA & J'LEM transit where passed censor (J13); arr 17 AU 40. Latvian puppet govt installed 21 July (day before letter); addressee Mordechai Caspi was Latvian consul 1928-47. Rare period official mail.