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Contains: Takeover of a war canoe in the Ethnological Museum Berlin

Contains among other things: Description of the trade exhibition (exhibition of overseas raw materials and semi-finished products) following the Hamburg Trade and Industry Exhibition 1889, Hamburg 1889 Lands and plantations of the Deutsche Handels- und Plantagen-Gesellschaft der Südsee-Inseln zu Hamburg in Samoa, 1888 Official catalogue of the Trade Exhibition Bremen, June 1890

Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of prisoners from South West Africa, including: Protest by Dr Seitz, Governor of German South West Africa, and Lieutenant Colonel Franke about the proposed transfer. List of German officers and three attendants of other ranks (in docket no. 89096) who sailed from Cape Town to England on HMT Galway Castle. Claim by the German Government that the transport of the prisoners was contrary to the terms of the treaty of capitulation (the Khorab Agreement). Request for the German prisoners to be interned in Switzerland. List of German officers interned at Colsterdale Camp (in docket no. 158198). Hauptmann [Captain] Max Müller: query about deductions from officers' pay at Colsterdale. Question of the payment of postage and customs duty on letters and parcels sent to German prisoners in German South West Africa. Complaints from German officers interned at Trial Bay Detention Barracks, Australia. Enquiry by the German authorities about the treatment of German prisoners employed in the loading and unloading of steamers at Newcastle. Dental treatment for German prisoners in British camps. Postal regulations regarding the use of ruled writing paper for German prisoners on the island of Jersey. Conditions in the internment camp at Brandon, Manitoba. Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps: Feltham, Middlesex. Lark Hill, Salisbury Plain. Berrima Detention Barracks, New South Wales, Australia. Lower Southern Hospital, Dartford. Islington Camp, London. Kegworth, Derbyshire (2 reports). Blandford, Dorset. Dorchester. Panshanger. Libury Hall. Donnington Hall. Pattishall (2 reports). Woburn. Huntingdon. Douglas. Southill. Lewisham Military Hospital. Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Belton Park. Linton. Corby. Uppingham. Coal Aston Peak Dale Quarries. Yate. German memorandum on alleged irregularities in the delivery of parcels to the camps of Aus, Pietermaritzburg and Okanjande in German South West Africa. Complaint about the lack of provision of dental treatment for German prisoners interned at Lethbridge, Canada, and Pietermaritzburg, German South West Africa. Conditions at Ahmednagar Camp, India; proposal for some prisoners to be transferred to hill stations in Northern India. Confirmation that no German prisoners were employed at Newcastle. Complaints made by German prisoners interned at Berrima Barracks, New South Wales. German memorandum regarding conditions at Fort Henry, Canada. Dental treatment for German prisoners interned at Rouen and Stobs. Kapitän Leutnant L Mühlbauer: complaint about charges for medical treatment at Dartford Hospital. Albert Wolff, interned at Stratford: details of his illness and removal to the German Hospital, Dalston. Oldcastle Camp: German memorandum on conditions at camp. Request for clothing by prisoners at Dorchester Camp. Dental treatment for Unter Offizier Heinrich Reitler Request for an inspection of the internment camp at Verdala, Malta, and the military prison at Corodina. Amalgamation of internment camps at Stratford and Alexandra Palace. Dental treatment for prisoners at Pietermaritzburg Camp. Seaman Kasimir Wisniewski, interned at Leigh: enquiry about the reasons for successive sentences of imprisonment. Conditions at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man. Financial aid in India for prisoners from German East Africa. Report on complaints by German prisoners interned in South West Africa. [Note: printed copy of canteen price list: Army Canteen Committee, Official List of Prices for Prisoners of War Camps, June 1917 (in docket no. 129079)]. Code 1218 Files 500-525 (to paper 133873).

Germany: Prisoners, including: Transfer of German civilians from East Africa to India, including: Payments by the German Government to prisoners interned at Ahmednagar, India. Petition from various German prisoners (names in docket no. 54721) interned in India requesting to be returned to East Africa. Request by the German Government for details of interned and uninterned civilians in India and East Africa, with a request for the removal on health grounds of those resident in the districts of Tanga and Dar es Salaam. Request by the German Government for the transfer to Europe of German women and children removed from East Africa to India. Correspondence regarding the modification of a reciprocal agreement for the repatriation of invalid civilians. Enquiries regarding civilians transferred to German South West Africa, with particular reference to Herr Karl Schiller (subsequently identified as Lieutenant Erich Schiller). Lists (in docket nos. 97151 and 109002) of German civilians transferred from East Africa to camps at Ahmednagar and Belgaum, India, with printed correspondence relating to individual cases. Agreement in principle by the British Government for the transfer to South West Africa of German women and children from East Africa. Mr Theodor Döpffel, former Acting German Consul at Monrovia, including: Internment of Mr Döpffel at Alexandra Palace, and decision not to permit his repatriation. Transfer of Mr Döpfell to Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man. German memorandum stating that Mr Fawcett, Acting British Vice-Consul at Helsingfors, Finland, had been interned in a civilian camp as a reprisal. Letter from Mr Döpfell appealing for his release and requesting the return of his passport. Decision not to allow the exchange of Mr Döpfell for Mr J Phillips, interned at Holzminden, Germany. Mr Karl Kaufmann, a repatriated German subject, including: Request by the German Government for payments to be made to Mr Kaufmann from the funds of his liquidated business in the UK. German memorandum requesting the payment of warehousing costs for Mr Kaufmann's furniture. Correspondence regarding the internment of German prisoners in Reading Gaol. Request by the German Government for the repatriation of certain German deaconesses from the Sarepta Community of Westfalian Deaconesses. Mr Alfred Kulenkanpff, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, including: Details of Mr Kulenkampff's assets while resident in the Gold Coast, West Africa. Permission for remittances to be sent to Mr Kulenkampff. Transfer of funds in enemy countries belonging to prisoners interned in the UK, including: Complaint from Chief Captain Roderstein and Chief Captain Alfred Ewnardt regarding regulations at Lofthouse Park Camp. Letter of complaint from Major Balani, Senior Officer at Colsterdale Camp. Statement of British policy on the transfer of funds in enemy countries, and issue of a circular letter to camp commandants. German memorandum enquiring about reports that instructions for money transfers were not being transmitted, and threat of reprisals; reply by the British Government. Mr Walter Mann, interned at Lofthouse Park: request for permission for money to be transferred to his wife in Germany. Request for guidance by the Knockaloe Prisoners' Aid Society, Camp I, on dealing with requests for money transfers. Treasury policy on the transfer of funds from Germany. Accidents sustained by prisoners, including: Proposal for a reciprocal agreement between the British and German Governments for the notification of accidents. Emil Fork: compensation for injuries sustained at Knockaloe Camp. Stanislaus Bayon, interned at Dorchester Camp: report on an accident sustained at the camp. Wehrman Ludwig Kanne, interned at Stobs Camp: request by the German authorities for a certificate and details of an accident sustained by him. Otto Ruland: report of an accident sustained while working at the port of Le Havre, France. German memorandum claiming that the British authorities were no longer issuing certificates of sickness or accident to prisoners; later British reply stating that the information was included in the lists provided to the German Government. Reservist Ludwig Brünninger, interned at Handforth Camp, and Kanonier Robert Krüger, interned at Fulham Camp: request by the German authorities for certificates and details of the accidents sustained by them. Text (French language) of the agreement between the French and German Governments regarding the provision of information on accidents to prisoners. Corporal G McKie: claim for compensation for injuries sustained while working in K47 Coal Mine, Westphalia, Germany. Musketeer Johann Grella, interned in Switzerland: request for a certificate of accident. Kasimir (or Kesimir) Yoswiak: report of an accident sustained while interned at Holdsworthy Camp, Australia. Death by misadventure of Kaiserlicher Vizekonsul Neumann, including: Request by the German Government for his wife, Mrs Lucie Neumann, resident in London, to be informed. Arrangements for payments to Mrs Neumann from her husband's estate. Transmission of various documents to Mrs Neumann by the German authorities. Transfer of German prisoners to Switzerland, including: German memorandum protesting about the alleged robbery of German prisoners by British guards, prior to their transfer from England to Switzerland, and about the conditions of their journey. Refutation of the charges by various British naval officers supervising the transfer. Enquiry concerning restrictions placed by the Tongan Government on the movements of German subjects in Tonga. Mr Otto Rapude: claim for compensation for his internment in Sierra Leone. Alleged confiscation of certain articles sent in parcels to German prisoners. Hermann K Raydt, a deceased German subject from Port Said, Egypt: arrangements for the disposal of his estate. Application by certain prisoners in South Africa to be reinstated as German nationals, including: Mr F Muhle, interned at Pietermaritzburg. Mr John Behrend, Camp Captain at No. 1 Camp, Pietermaritzburg: covering letter for a list (not included) of civilian prisoners wishing to regain their German nationality. Code 1218 Files 13684-25620.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Status and pay of certain German officers (names in docket no.1692) promoted following their capture. Observations on the condition of British prisoners on their arrival in Switzerland. Supply of clothing to British prisoners in Germany. Captain Lord Lucas: communication of the news of his death to Mrs Waldorf Astor. Captain Karl von Müller, interned at Kegworth Camp, including: German memorandum threatening reprisals unless the conditions of his internment were improved. Confirmation by the British authorities that he had received suitable treatment. Report by Captain J Armstrong on the transfer of Captain von Müller by ship from Malta to England. Implementation by the German authorities of reprisals against interned British officers. Information provided by various British officers (names in docket nos.77697, 78566 and 89767) on German reprisals. German memorandum stating that the reprisals had been discontinued. Letter from Captain von Müller on the conditions of internment for German officers; decision by the Army Council that the letter could not be forwarded to the German Government. Protest by the British Government about the commencement of German reprisals without prior notification. Issue of towels to British prisoners in Germany. Baron Herbert von Pohl, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, including: Request by Baron von Pohl to visit his sick mother in Germany. Decision by the Army Council that parole could not be given. Copy of a letter from Baron von Pohl relating to his mother's condition, with a medical attestation bearing an American consular seal. Request for Baron von Pohl to be exchanged for Mr George F Fisher, interned at Ruhleben Camp. Decision by the British Government that the exchange could not be permitted. Captain Rudolf Streek, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: protest about the methods of the capture of his ship, the trawler Burgermeister Smidt , by the crew of the English trawler St George. Supply of motor car tyres for the US Embassy in Berlin, including: Loss of tyres in transit from Rotterdam by the American Express Company. Request by the Netherlands Minister in Berlin for spare tyres for the car used for visits to prison camps. Recovery of the tyres sent from Rotterdam. Arrangements for the payment and despatch of tyres from the UK. German memorandum on the shooting of the German missionary Palm at Shirati, German East Africa by an English soldier. Reported outbreak of typhus in internment camps in Germany; confirmation by the US Embassy that the reports were unfounded. Transfer of British prisoners, including Private D Golden, from Zossen to Danzig-Troyl. Indian prisoners interned in Germany, including: Delay in the despatch of correspondence from Zossen, with printed extracts from various letters provided by the Censor, Indian Mails, in France. German memorandum explaining that the delay was caused by problems in censoring the correspondence. Subahdar Major Sher Sing Rani interned at Clausthal: extract from a letter to Captain Mahdo Sing Rani on the conditions of his internment; information that he had been moved to Ströhen Camp. Report that Indian prisoners at Zossen were being transferred to Romania. Report of a visit of inspection to the internment camps at Zossen. Confirmation that a number of Indian prisoners had been transferred from Germany to the camp at Walachi, Romania. Request by the Secretary of State for India for a formal protest regarding the transfer of the prisoners, and for a visit of inspection to be made to the camp at Walachi. Letter from the German Ministry of War confirming that the prisoners were in good health. Captain F P Gulland: extract from a letter from his mother concerning conditions for interned Indian prisoners in Germany. Refusal by the German Government to provide information on the prevalence of tuberculosis among British prisoners. Karl Marnitz and Eduard Wolf, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India: protest by the German Government about the punishments imposed on them. Approval for the transmission of money for the relief of German subjects in South Africa. Repatriation of prisoners, including: Proposal by the Swiss Government for the repatriation from Switzerland of prisoners who had recovered from tuberculosis. Rejection by the British Government of the proposal. Proposal by the British Government for a revision of the schedule of disabilities to facilitate the repatriation of invalid and incapacitated prisoners. German memorandum summarising procedures for the transfer of prisoners to Switzerland. Request for formal acceptance by the German Government of the terms of the revised schedule. Lieutenant F N Grimwade, including: Protest by the British Government about Lieutenant Grimwade's detention in Germany, following his selection for transfer to Switzerland. Lieutenant Harvey Frost and Private Grant: statements regarding Lieutenant Grimwade's court martial at Hannover. German memorandum stating that Lieutenant Grimwade would be transferred to Switzerland if found eligible by the Exchange Commission. Confirmation that he had been transferred to Switzerland. Report of an interview with Lieutenant Grimwade on his experiences while interned in Germany. British memorandum protesting about Lieutenant Grimwade's treatment, with the reply from the German authorities. Code 1218 Files 11692-14717.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Shipment of apples to British prisoners at Döberitz. Report of a reciprocal agreement between France and Germany regarding the postponement of the punishment of prisoners, and consideration of a similar agreement between Germany and England. Repatriation of Reverend E Heider, a German missionary held as a prisoner in New Zealand. Dr Fritz Rohrer: request for information from the British Consulate at Zurich concerning the welfare and whereabouts of his daughter, Mrs Mary Veith. Subsequent information provided by the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief , East Africa, on the re-marriage of Mrs Mary Veith (now known as Mrs Osman) and her residency in Mrogoro, German East Africa. Captain Thomas Ormston: enquiry by his wife concerning the welfare and whereabouts of her husband and the crew of his ship, the SS Shipcote. Mr Emil Burmeister: request to be allowed to receive monthly remittances from his agent in South Africa, as a British colonial subject resident in Germany. Mr Emil Böhme: agreement by the British Government for the transmission to him of a medal and letter from the United States Congress, during his internment at Knockaloe Camp on the Isle of Man. Captain Otto Prejawa: written complaint regarding the circumstances of his internment in the German prisoner of war camp at Liverpool, New South Wales. Karl Marnitz: complaint from the German Government regarding the severity of the punishment for his attempted escape from the prisoner of war camp at Ahmednagar in East Bombay, India. Request by Mr Herman Wertheim, a naturalised South African subject resident in Wiesbaden, Germany, for the safeguarding by the British authorities of shares deposited by him in the Dresden Bank in London. Decision not to authorise the despatch of foodstuffs to Mr Herman Wertheim in Germany. Captain Grenville Peek of the 9th Lancers: enquiries regarding his transfer from the prison camp at Heidelberg to Switzerland for medical treatment. Terms of the special agreement between Britain and Germany regarding the release of consular officers. Mr J Hofman: refusal of a request by the German Government for the return of a cheque taken from him during his detention at Stratford Camp. Enquiries regarding a request from Mr Wolfgang Dreiss, a German subject interned at Malta, to make arrangements connected with the management of the 'Hotel du Nil' at Luxor. Daisy Toft (formerly Lüder): request for the German authorities to supply her with an official copy of the decree of divorce between herself and Karl Friedrich Lüder. Lieutenant Frederick Norton Grimwade: enquiries by his family concerning the decision of the German authorities to detain him him at the camp at Clausthal, despite his selection for transfer to Switzerland on medical grounds. Enquiries by the German Government regarding the whereabouts and welfare of Lieutenant Voigt, a German subject reported to have been captured by British forces in East Persia. Hirde Narain: enquiries concerning his son, Maharaj Narain Kaul, an Indian student detained in Germany at the outbreak of the war. Approval of the despatch of a consignment of wool to Bugler B J West, a prisoner interned at Döberitz, West Germany. Enquiries relating to Miss Louise Shaw, Miss Catherine Cleaverley, Miss Agnes Rourke and Mrs Black in the civilian internment camp at Holzminden in Germany. Confirmation that Mr W Hartnell, Chief Officer of the SS Brussels , and other crew members, were being held in Ruhleben Camp in Germany. Proposal for German prisoners of war held in France to be allowed to correspond with their compatriots interned in the United Kingdom. Enquiries regarding the welfare of Swiss citizens in the territory of German East Africa occupied by British forces. Increase in the rates of pay issued to British officers held as prisoners in Germany. Private C R Hutchinson: approval for the despatch of books to him at Hammelburg Camp in Germany. Allegations of the ill-treatment of British prisoners in certain German prison camps. Rudolf Ermrich and Paul Altenburg: enquiries about compensation from the British Government, following injuries allegedly sustained at the British prisoner of war camp at Rouen. Arrangements for the delivery of Red Cross parcels and Christmas presents to British prisoners in Germany during the Christmas season. Repatriation to South West Africa of the German nationals Heinrich Sindt, with his wife and child, and Hans Nurnberger, all formerly resident in Rio de Janeiro. Accidental shooting of Gustav Schulze, a German prisoner interned at Knockaloe camp on the Isle of Man. Code 1218 Files 172297-181006.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Request by the Technical Club at Douglas Detention Camp to receive certain technical periodicals; decision by the War Office to withhold permission. Oberleutnant der Reserve Wilhelm Brandt and Unteroffizier Werner Müller, including: Report by the British authorities that Oberleutnant Brandt had been acquitted at his trial before a military court. German memorandum requesting information on the whereabouts of Oberleutnant Brandt; confirmation that he was interned in Egypt. Unteroffizier Müller: sentence of three years penal servitude at Dar es Salaam military court. Geman memorandum protesting about the sentences passed on Unteroffizier Müller and Kapitänleutnant J Schutt. Transfer of German civilian prisoners from Pietermaritzburg to Kanus, South West Africa, including: Request by the German Government for a list of the prisoners; provision of the list (in docket no. 1099234) by the British authorities, and the reasons for their transfer. Mr Adolf Jelinek: copy of a letter complaining about the circumstances of the transfer and the conditions at Kanus. Report on conditions at Kanus Camp. Gustav Menk, a German prisoner interned in France: decision not to permit his transfer to British custody. Correspondence regarding lists of German prisoners repatriated from South Africa on SS Erna Woermann and SS Rufidgi. Allegations regarding the treatment of German prisoners in France after their capture, including: German memoranda alleging that officers had been robbed following their arrest, and threatening reprisals. Copy of a letter from German officers interned at Holyport Camp. British memorandum responding to the allegations, with comments from the War Office. Explanation of the reasons for the stoppage of correspondence rights for some German prisoners. Evidence from various German prisoners (names in docket no. 34583) of their alleged ill-treatment by British soldiers. Max Neukuchatz, a repatriated German subject: decision not to permit the transmission of certain forms to him from the UK. Oberleutnant Günther Voigt, interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India, including: Request for his transfer on health grounds to a hill station; decision not to permit the transfer. Claim for a refund of the money taken from him when captured in Persia. Issues of dual nationality, including: Dr Fritz Noetling, former German Consul at Hobart, Tasmania: information that he was a naturalised British subject. Request by the German authorities for Dr Noetling's repatriation, with claims that he held dual British and German nationality. Proposal by the German authorities for a reciprocal agreement on the repatriation of women and children possessing dual nationality, with a list (in docket no. 109623) of German children currently detained in the UK. Demand by certain naturalised British subjects of German origin interned in Australia for repatriation. Walter Grunewaldt and Florian Rohner, interned at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia: confirmation of their German nationality. Costs of repatriating German civilians, including: Rejection by the German Government of British proposals for refunding the costs of repatriation, with a sample enquiry form for the provision of details regarding the repatriation of uninterned German civilians. British memorandum suggesting alternative arrangements. Kapitän Carl Diercks: request by the German Embassy at The Hague for a refund of the costs of his repatriation. Claims made by German prisoners for compensation from the British Government, including: German memorandum requesting compensation for the loss of personal effects of prisoners during transportation from Tilbury to Le Havre, France. Allegations that possessions were removed from the prisoners at Brocton Camp prior to their departure, with lists of the prisoners' names (in docket no. 76949) and the missing possessions. German memorandum protesting that German officers transferred to Switzerland were obliged to leave most of their luggage in England. Heinrich Ludwig Krüder, formerly interned at Ahmednagar, India: request by the German authorities for a copy of his death certificate. Personal effects of certain deceased German civilians, including: German memorandum requesting the return of personal effects, with particular reference to four cases (names in docket no. 41703) and a list of the personal effects of Mr Ernst Schirmer. Information that Mr Schirmer had removed his possessions when he was repatriated. Johannes Deistel: request by his widow for his possessions to be returned to Mülhausen, Germany. Code 1218 Files 26671-41703.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Reports of visits of inspection to the following internment camps and prison hospitals: St George's Barracks, Bermuda (2 reports), with complaints from various prisoners. Colsterdale. Sandhill Park. Brocton Hospital. Nell Lane Hospital. Port Clarence. Penston. Rosyth. Glendevon. Kinlochleven. Rowrah. Newlandside. Dawyck. Bee Craigs. Wakerley. Dartford. Colney Hatch. Belmont Hospital (2 reports). Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland. Rochford Agricultural Depot. Richborough, Kent. Hendon. Lewisham Military Hospital. Winchester. Codford. Fovant. Larkhill. Sutton Veny. Upavon. Blandford. Milldown. Corton. Dorchester. Libury Hall. Pattishall. Shirley Rink, Southampton. Bevois Mount. Leigh. Knightwick. Shelsley-Walsh. Erdiston. Peopleton. Bulford. Hermitage. Bwlch, South Wales. Port Talbot. Stratford-on-Avon. Ross-on-Wye. Shirehampton. Kerry, North Wales. Banbury. Glendon. Douglas, Isle of Man. Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Pietermaritzburg Camp, South Africa: information on letters and parcels received at camp. Ahmednagar: refusal of the Government of Bombay to supply certain drugs to German military doctors interned at Ahmednagar, India; related correspondence from the India Office. Letter from Oberst [Colonel] Leibrock, interned at Donington (or Donnington) Hall. Pietermaritzburg Camp, South Africa: complaints from German prisoners interned at camp; report of riots at the camp. Oberstleutnant von Brunner: information on the delay in delivery of letters to prisoners at Coltersdale Camp. Paul Buchwald: allegations concerning the treatment of civilian prisoners when being repatriated to Germany. Verdala, Malta: observations by War Office on conditions in the internment camp at Verdala. Kapitänleutnant A Boecker: confirmation that parcels and letters had been delivered to him at Kegworth Camp. Transfer of funds by German Government to the German Aid Society in Johannesburg, South Africa. Max Heiduk, interned at Bermuda: enquiry about the non-delivery of a postcard to him. Ahmednagar: letter, with a number of signatures (in docket no. 198640) of prisoners interned in Ahmednagar Camp, India, enquiring about the non-receipt of mail from German East Africa. Ahmednagar: German memorandum requesting the evacuation of German prisoners from the internment camp at Ahmednagar, India. Amherst: complaint by German authorities about quantity and quality of food supplied to prisoners interned at Amherst, Canada. Statement of complaints provided by the German authorities regarding various British camps. Kapitänleutnant R Mühlbauer: request by German Government for the repayment of expenses incurred by him for medical treatment. Enquiries from the German Government regarding B H Rohls, a naturalised British citizen, and the internment of German civilians at Reading. Protest by the German Government against restrictions on the correspondence of prisoners interned at Ahmednagar and Kataphar in India. Donington Hall: allegations of dampness in the huts at Donington Hall internment camp for officers, with a printed copy of a Red Cross report (French language) dated June 1917. Code 1218 File 525 (papers 137007-end).

Germany: Prisoners, including: Repatriation of German women from Britain. Money belonging to deceased British soldiers. Alleged internment of German subjects in East Africa. Otto Lodter, German subject interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Otto Sprenger, German subject interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: his application for release and repatriation. Relief of wives of prisoners interned in Germany. Private G F Browning, Northumberland Fusiliers: sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for being drunk and assaulting an unteroffizier. Doctor Karl Müller, lately interned at Alexandra Palace, London, and repatriated: return of his confiscated Mauser pistol. Employment of German prisoners at St Mellons, near Cardiff, Glamorgan. Doctor Josef Assmuth, Professor of Zoology at Bombay University, German subject formerly interned in Britain: return of his confiscated scientific collections. Crews of British steamships Calypso and Aaro : enquiries as to their fate. Paul Gierham, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: his financial affairs. Leopold Zechnall, German subject, formerly interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire, employed in German Division of US Embassy in place of Pastor Kruger. Ernst Mayer, interned at Windhuk (Windhoek), former German South West Africa: request for repatriation because of illness. German prisoners in Japan. Augustus von Cabrera, German subject, deceased: his estate. Fritz Klaus, German sailor, interned at Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada: shot dead by Canadian soldier. Baroness von Meyern-Hohenburg, a German subject: cessation of her pension paid from the Bengal Military Fund. W Ellison and G Ettlinger, British subjects: their attempted escape from Ruhleben and imprisonment in the Stadtvogtei. Doctor Albert Coulthard, lecturer in chemistry at the Hackney Institute, London: his request for his salary. Private A Hattersley, West Yorkshire Regiment: enquiry as to his whereabouts. Philip Bridge, British civilian interned at Militaer Gewahrsam, Berlin: request for relief. J Hellmich, German subject, interned at the German Hospital, Dalston, London: judged not eligible for repatriation. Berthold Hans Hauschild, interned at Alexandra Palace, London: repatriation on grounds of health refused. Gunner Harry Fitch (original name Otto Fritch), 30th Middlesex Regiment: request by his father, Henry Fritsch, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, that his son be discharged from British Army; reply from War Office that the boy was anyway discharged, being under age. Doctor A E Taylor, of the US Embassy, Berlin: request for permission to visit prisoner camps in Britain. Men of 1st Newfoundland Regiment, believed to be prisoners in Germany: enquiries for them. Secretary Heerling, German diplomat: storage of his furniture at Peckham, London. Funds of the Apostolic Prefecture of Adamaua, Cameroons, seized by British troops. Shipments of tea and cocoa from Britain to Germany. Hermann Schiller, German subject living in Britain: permission given for his letter to be forwarded to the Imperial German Foreign Office. Letter from Persian Minister in Berlin to Persian Minister in London. Payment of prisoners employed in hospital work. Kurt Hofrichter, German Pole interned at Alexandra Palace, London. Alleged restrictions on correspondence of German prisoners in Canada. Passage money taken from German subjects on the steamship Golconda , sailing from London to Rotterdam. Code 1218 Files 151595-163489.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Repatriation of German and Austrian subjects: question of HM Government paying expenses. Luggage: arrangements for transportation and recovery and question of reciprocity for exchange arrangements, with specific individual enquiries from British subjects regarding recovery of their luggage left in Germany, and vice-versa from German subjects regarding luggage left in UK, including: Louis Levy, of Liverpool. Miss Newitt, of Harleseden, Middlesex. Thomas Cook

Germany: Prisoners, including: Receipt and return of parcels sent to British prisoners in Germany including cases of pilfering and non-delivery. Pay and treatment of First Lieutenant zur See d. R. Breithaupt, prisoner in New South Wales. Gifts of alcoholic drinks allowed in German internment camps and reciprocal arrangement in British camps. Detention of Count Paul Wolff-Metternich in the UK. Repatriation of Professor Dr A Peter of Amani, South West Africa, Director of the Botanical Gardens at Gottingen. Transmission to Switzerland of trunk of Lieutenant d. Reserve E. Radtke. Repatriation of Reserve Ernst Heinrich Weiss of Colaba Hospital, Bombay. Suggestion by Mrs Townsend, wife of Major E N Townsend, interned at Crefeld, that visits of relatives be restricted to allow for more prisoners in the camp. Oaths administered to prisoners of war in German East Africa concerning parole. Treatment of German civilians and property in the Cameroons and Togoland. Sentence of imprisonment passed on Captain Desmond D. Barry of the Highland Light Infantry interned in Wesel, and ensuing case. Detention at Fort Napier of the lawyer, Arnold Weisse of Lüderitzbucht. Receipt of parcels by prisoners serving imprisonment sentences. Care of British interests in Germany and German interests in Australia by US Consul. Pension for wife of Robert Parkinson, prisoner at Dülmen. Proof of existence of Driver Harold Sugden. Parcels for Russian prisoners in Germany. Enquiry from Henry D. Bell concerning delivery of parcels to his son Lieutenant R M Bell, of 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, interned at Friedberg. Enquiry from French Ministry of War concerning a pro-German French soldier named Batte (or Batt). Exchange of Captain Foulkes, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, interned at Gutersloh for German prisoner of war. Death of Private J Greenwood, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and other soldiers at Dülmen and subsequent investigation and inspection. Relief of indigent East African prisoners at Ahmednagar. Remittance to Herr von Busse, interned at Ahmednagar. Code 1218 Files 62216 (papers 218713-end)-74659.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Provision of information on trial proceedings and sentencing of British and German prisoners, including: Captain Arnold Bleckley: request for information from the German Government on the sentence passed on him. Assurance by the British Government that information would be provided relating to cases involving German prisoners, and request for a reciprocal arrangement. Agreement by the German Government for a reciprocal exchange of information. Proposal for a reciprocal arrangement for the exchange of information on the dates of trials. British regulations on the employment of a defence counsel by an accused prisoner. Second Lieutenant Edward Bennington: report by Dr Hoekstra of the proceedings of his court martial at Hanover. Proposals for the transfer of British prisoners to Switzerland, including: Correspondence regarding forms received from the Spanish Embassy in London recommending the transfer of certain British prisoners. Interest of the King of Spain in certain cases. Opinion of the British Government that the transfer of prisoners should be their responsibility; expression of thanks to the King of Spain for his assistance. Explanation by the Spanish Embassy of the circumstances of the King of Spain's involvement. Provision of false teeth for British prisoners, including: Private S Thornley, interned at Dülmen Camp. Private A Records, interned at Stendal Camp. Repatriation of refugees from the Cameroons, including; Arrangements for the repatriation of Chalgo, alias Mateo, from Madrid, Spain, to Duala (Douala), Cameroon. Question of payment of the costs of his repatriation. Arrangements for the transfer of refugees from Cape Town, South Africa, to Sierra Leone. Allegations of crimes committed by certain German prisoners, including Leopold Kuntz, against Cameroon nationals. Arrangements for the despatch of parcels to prisoners, including: Proposal by the American Express Company for a request to be made to the German Government for the grant of safe passage to a ship carrying supplies for British prisoners. Proposal for the establishment of a reserve food depot at Rotterdam in the Netherlands; subsequent proposal to establish a food depot in Bergen, Norway. Arrangements for the transmission of letters and parcels to German prisoners in the UK. Supply of flour to the Prisoners' Bread Bureau in Copenhagen, Denmark. Request for permission for the British Red Cross Society to send flour and other supplies to Bergen, Norway. Effects of interruptions to sailings to the Netherlands on the delivery of letters and parcels to prisoners. Mr Henry Hadley, including: Account of the circumstances of his death while returning by train from Germany to the UK. Protest by the British Government about the sale of Mr Hadley's personal effects to pay for his medical treatment. Request by the German Government for the repatriation of certain German missionaries (names in docket no.32138) interned at Ras-el-Tin, Egypt. Prisoner exchanges, including: Petition, signed by various former prisoners of Ruhleben Camp, requesting the release of all British and German civilian prisoners. Mr MacCallum Scott and Sir Henry Craik: parliamentary questions on government policy relating to prisoner exchanges. Mr Frank Craston: letter recommending the release of German prisoners. Lord Gainford: parliamentary question regarding prisoner exchanges, with printed extracts from Hansard covering debates in the House of Lords on 20 March 1917. Minutes of a meeting of the Prisoners of War Sub-Committee of the War Cabinet on 16 March 1917. Mr Pennefather and Mr Joynson-Hicks: parliamentary questions regarding prisoner exchanges, and printed extracts from Hansard dated 4 April 1917. Petition from the Captains' Committee at Islington Camp requesting repatriation to Germany (names of petitioners in docket no.105786). Letters from the International Committee of Aid for Civilian Prisoners in Zurich and the Ruhleben Prisoners' Release Committee. Owald Kinscher, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp: letter requesting the release of civilian prisoners. Sergeant S Acheson: request for information from the German Government following reports that he had been killed in action. Welfare of British wounded prisoners in Hamburg Hospital, including: Request for food parcels for the prisoners. List of newly-arrived British prisoners (in docket no.35881). Letters from various relatives of the prisoners (names in docket no.42914) addressed to the American Consul General in Hamburg. Mr Frederick Brown: enquiry about the validity of a letter from the US Consulate in Hamburg concerning a visit to his son in hospital. List of names of British prisoners (in docket no.57085 and 100543)) known to have been in the Eppendorfer Hospital in Hamburg, but omitted from the official German list. List of names (in docket no.97489) of British prisoners interned in two hospitals in Hamburg. Payments to interned German subjects, including: Agreement for the Swiss Legation in London to continue to make payments in the UK, and arrangements for the transfer of funds from Switzerland. Payments to destitute German civilians in South Africa by the Swiss Legation in Cape Town. Arrangements for payments to prisoners in India by the Swiss Consul at Bombay. Mr C Auffinger, interned at Ahmednagar, India: request for the transmission of documents to him by the Anglo-Austrian Bank in London. Provision of financial aid to prisoners in German East Africa. Sanction for payments to various prisoners (names in docket no.244968) interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India Code 1218 Files 28046-35184.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposal by the Vatican that prisoners who had been held for more than 18 months and who were fathers of four children should be interned in Switzerland, and thus returned to their native countries. Opening of sealed tins of meat or other food sent to British prisoners. Ten German youths detained in Britain (named in docket no.144692). German subjects released from Australia who proceed via China to the USA, where they are given false passports before returning to Germany: investigations into practice. Remittance of allowances by the Norddeutscher Lloyd Company of Bremen to support their ships' officers who are interned in Australia. Carl Denker, German ship's officer interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire: medically unfit for work at sea; approval for his repatriation, and special exchange for an officer of the British Mercantile Marine interned in Germany. Heinrich Sippel and Jacob Schorr: their petition on behalf of the interned crew of the German steamship Prinz Adalbert ; Foreign Office will not allow their release; German crews not to be shown the same consideration as Austrian ones. Bureau International de la Paix, Berne, Switzerland. Baroness Marthe von Carnap: her enquiry about the welfare of her two sons by a previous marriage, the Egyptian princes Ibrahim Fazil and Said Fazil. Supply of alcoholic liquor to officer prisoners. Damage to German property in the Cameroons. Funds for assistance of British prisoners in Germany. James George Bachmann, an infant: his mother, Mrs McGonigal, desires his return from Germany to Britain. Lance Corporal C G G Dibble, 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment: enquiry as to his fate. Capture of the British steamship Eskimo by German authorities: enquiries for female passengers and crew. Captain Arnold H Bleckly, 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment, sentenced by court martial to imprisonment for attempting to escape from Crefeld. Hans Krützfeld, Secretary of the late German Consulate at Lourenço Marques, Mozambique: his internment in Natal, Union of South Africa. Pastor Hasenkamp, of the German Evangelical Parish of Swakopmund, former German South West Africa: permission granted to proceed to Capetown, Union of South Africa, for medical treatment. Gifts sent to prisoners by 'godparents' in neutral countries. Code 1218 Files 144077-151469.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Pay of four German officers detained on HMT Canada : request for payment of salaries as captured officers, from Johannes Schlüter, Robert Karbiner, Robert von Schlieben, Friedrich Fuhr; includes signed letter from officers (in docket no. 269). Pay of officer prisoners of war: German government lists (in German) of German civilians interned in England who should be treated as officers. Officials from German protectorates: German government request that superior officials should be treated as officers rather than civilian prisoners. German officers of the reserve taken prisoner in UK. Treatment of captured Belgian official in Belgian Congo. German subjects to be treated as officers: case of Dr Jacobs, prisoner transferred from Ceylon to Australia; also Bodo Mertens and Peter von Boetticher, detained in HM overseas dominions. Treatment of Otto Froitzheim and Hans Kaiser, interned as civilian prisoners at Wakefield, and Lt Fritz Fuhrmann, interned in England. Hermann Eubell, retired officer at Ahmednagar, India. Paul Bauer and Markus Ried, lieutenants of the reserve. Wolf von Trotha, German subject interned at Wakefield. Interned British ships: funds and wages to be paid to dependents of seamen interned at Hamburg and German ports; includes lists of vessels, and names of masters. George Frederick Fischer, British subject interned in Germany at Ruhleben: execution of power of attorney in respect of trust property in England. German doctors in Spain: German representations regarding their possible return to Germany. Prince Salm Salm, a captain in the German regiment of the 'Gardes du Corps': arrangements for his transfer from South Africa to Gibraltar with his wife, Princess Salm Salm, (Marie Cristina, Archduchess of Austria), daughter of Archduke Frederick and a cousin of HM the King of Spain, and her maid; proposed exchange of Prince Salm Salm for two British officers; movements in Gibraltar of Princess Salm Salm. Lt Col H McMicking, 2nd Royal Scots, wounded prisoner in Germany: enquiry from Mrs Alice Graves of Norfolk regarding his possible exchange. Arrest of Germans at New Mecklenburg: allegations of their being whipped at Rabaul, New Britain [Papua New Guinea], in response to their whipping of a Methodist missionary (Reverend Mr Cox); enquiries with Governor General of Commonwealth of Australia; later report (in docket no. 32008). Officers and crew of captured enemy vessels Wega , Alberttine , Fehrbellin and Romulus : release reports, listing individual names and details (in docket no. 10509). Germans killed in Isle of Man detention camp riot in November 1914: German request for particulars of four individuals killed; enquiry whether one was Ludwig Bauer, a confectioner of Brixton, London; includes list of individuals and details (in docket no. 14764). Richard Kwilecki, German subject in Australia: enquiries regarding his whereabouts. Von Gudenburgs in South West Africa: enquiries regarding whereabouts of Frau Freifrau Freya Wolff von Gudenburg and Thilo Freiherr von Gudenburg and family. Code 1218 File 269-584.

Germany: Prisoners, including: Letters from USA to German soldiers addressed to Northern France. Contraband: suspicious consignments to Amsterdam by Dutch vessel SS Danae. Rent owing on a premises lately occupied by an interned alien enemy: enquiry from William Whiteley Ltd, auction, land and estate offices, of London, on behalf of a client. Gold souvenir medals ordered from England by Mr A M L Betts, British subject interned at Ruhleben: arrangements for transmission via US Embassy, Berlin. Badges or medals for Ruhleben prisoners: resolution passed by 3,000 camp members against allocation of relief funds to purchase of medals. Present for commandant, Blankenburg camp, Berlin: request from Mrs Gordon for permission to send the commandant an inscribed gold pencil case as a mark of appreciation for kindness shown to her husband Colonel Gordon VC, prisoner at camp. Pay and treatment of German officer interned in UK: Dr Werdin, assistant surgeon of the German Army. Pay of officer prisoners of war in Germany: enquiries from Mrs Lucy B Jackson of Kemerton, Gloucestershire, in respect of her husband Colonel Jackson. Johannes Buschmann, German subject interned at Knockaloe camp, Isle of Man: request for release as only 16 years old, and for compensation to pay passage to USA. Mr M Bettenstadt, deported from England: history of his case; report that German Consul at Vlissingen will not recognise him as a German subject; request that he may be recalled to England; decision of UK authorities that deportation order cannot be withdrawn; petitions for reconsideration of decision. Moravian missionaries in South Africa: comments on statement in Dutch newspaper that all missionaries of the Moravian Brotherhood in South Africa had been ordered to prepare to be interned. British Red Cross and Order of St John: enquiries on behalf of Mrs Plunkett, wife of paralysed husband living at Hanover, and Mrs Morris in respect of her son, C V Morris, interned at Ruhleben. Exchange of German notes for English money: request from wife of English employee of James Keiller

Germany: Prisoners, including: Internment of German prisoners from the German colonies, including: Request by the General Welfare Committee at Knockaloe Camp that civilian prisoners due to be repatriated should not be temporarily transferred to a military camp. Lieutenant Paul Baer: complaint by the German authorities about the delay in transferring him to Switzerland. Request for interned German troops from the Cameroons and Togo to be placed in military camps. German memorandum alleging that officers and non-commissioned officers captured in the German colonies were being excluded from internment in the Netherlands; British reply refuting the allegations. Combatant status of certain prisoners at Knockaloe Camp. Johannes Rehse, interned at Knockaloe Camp, and Karl Kauss, interned at Lofthouse Park: request for their transfer to the Netherlands. Heinrich Bolle, interned at Knockaloe Camp: decision not to allow his transfer to the Netherlands; subsequent confirmation of his non-combatant status. Correspondence concerning lists of former German colonial troops eligible for transfer to the Netherlands. Lieutenants Kaiser, Hermans and Haeuseler: request for their transfer to the Netherlands. Otto Kallweit: confirmation that he had been moved to a camp for combatant prisoners, and would be transferred to the Netherlands. Heinrich Bauch: confirmation that he had been transferred to a camp for combatant prisoners. List (in docket no. 108819) of German prisoners eligible for transfer to the Netherlands. Johannes Rehse, interned at Knockaloe Camp: enquiry about his transfer to a military camp and removal to the Netherlands. Information on the civilian status of certain German prisoners (names in docket no. 111465). German memoranda enquiring about Sergeant Otto Kallweit and other interned prisoners (names in docket no. 119625) who were eligible for military status. Samoan camps: appointment of Mr J Helg to inspect internment camps in Samoa containing German prisoners; protest by the German authorities about the existence of the camps. Oberleutnant Lothar Marcks, interned at Trial Bay, Australia, including: Letters to the Swiss Consul in Sydney recommending the repatriation of a number of German prisoners (names in docket nos. 9131 and 19465) on health grounds. Sergeant Rudolf Albert Ebelt: information that he was no longer eligible for repatriation on health grounds. Permission for the transmission to Germany of the letters from Oberleutnant Marcks. German prisoners from the former colony of German New Guinea, including: Deportation of former employees of the Pacific Phosphate Company from the island of Nauru. George Taeufert: confirmation that he had been deported from German New Guinea and was interned at Trial Bay, New South Wales. German memorandum notifying the British Government of the detention of six British civilians as a reprisal for the detention of German officials (names in docket no. 67397). Reports on actions leading to the surrender of Nauru and the deportation of German prisoners, with lists (in docket no. 75585) of prisoners who had been deported or interned, a list (in docket no. 75585) of prisoners and passengers on SS Messina , and a list (in docket no. 75585) of German subjects sent from New Guinea to Australia. Statistics relating to Commerce, Native Tax, Population, Live Stock and Agriculture, etc., in connection with the Late German New Guinea Possessions. (Parliamentary Command Paper C.15195). European War. Correspondence respecting Military Operations against German Possessions in the Western Pacific. (Parliamentary Command Paper C.16383). German memorandum protesting about the internment of prisoners on Samoa, and and requesting the return from Australia of German subjects deported from Nauru and New Guinea. Report by the Principal Medical Officer of Samoa on the internment camp at Samoa. German memorandum on German subjects in Nauru and New Guinea, with a copy of the British reply. Mr Karl Hanssen, interned at Motuihi Camp, Auckland, New Zealand: series of letters to the American Consul at Apia, Samoa, on issues relating to his business, the Deutsche Handels

Germany: Prisoners, including: Indian seamen (Lascars) interned at Parchim in Germany. Declaration of neutrality by German civilians interned in the UK. Forms of enquiry for relatives in Germany requesting information about German civilians interned in the British Empire. Transfer of the body of Prince Frederick Carl of Prussia for internment in Germany. Payments to German East African troops interned at Ahmednagar. Transmission of correspondence of persons in occupied territories to Germany. Request by the German Government for the release of Andreas Holst and Erich Helmich, arrested on neutral territory. Sentence passed on Kurt Thomas, prisoner at Ahmednagar. Secret letter from Lieutenant R R W Jackson interned at Crefeld prisoner of war camp, describing conditions. Conveyance of parcels etc. for German prisoners in UK. Supply of uniforms etc. to prisoners of war. Marking of graves of enemy soldiers dying in the area of operations and prisoners of war dying in the UK. Sum due to Avery Hancox and other repatriated British prisoners. Request by US Senator for numbers of German prisoners in UK and France and transfer of prisoners to USA. Transfer of prisoners of war to Canada to supply labour. Expenses of repatriation of German civilian prisoners. Payments to German prisoners held by the British in France. Rev. Karl Steck, interned in Australia. Request for transfer of Professor Dr. Schroeder and Dr. Becker, interned in Shiraz, Persia (Iran) to a better supplied camp due to ill-health. Request for the safe passage of German missionary Wilhelm Neuberg and his wife and two children, interned at Blantyre, British Nyasaland to the USA. Repatriation of five members of German Sanitary Personnel from East Africa. Formation of officer's camp at Freiburg. Proposals by the Red Cross for the exchange of prisoners. Treatment of Askaris by British in German East Africa. Treatment of German subjects arrested in West Africa and transported to UK, including sworn depositions by Felix Cohn, Hugo Ebeling, Anna Lucie Baehr, Else Haensel and Bertha Wilhelmina Therese Getrud Hein, née Lummert. Feeding of German prisoners in UK with bread and flour from Holland. Requests for repatriation of prisoners under 17 years of age: Cadet Donald F Macfadyen, born 29 October 1900, of the ship Brecknockshire interned at Brandenburg Alfred Broomfield Clulee, born 13 December 1900, of the ship Otaki Arrangement for despatch of food parcels to officers at Crefeld through an individual named Mr Van Vredenburch rather than from relatives. Code 1218 Files 87711-100563.

Germany: Prisoners, including: German women and children in Hong Kong: treatment; includes list of German and Austrian families interned in Kowloon (in docket no. 58552). German subject, aged over 55 years of age, detained at Rottnest, Western Australia: question of entitlement to release. Personal effects of German prisoners of war in South Africa. Treatment of German prisoners in Trinidad. Treatment of enemy aliens in South Africa. Disposal of German subjects from German South West Africa. Release and repatriation of German subjects under 17 years of age and over 55 years, in detention camps. Inspection reports on prisoner of war camps in London: Alexandra Palace and Stratford; includes black/white ground plan of Alexandra Palace (in docket no. 67335). Treatment of German prisoners in UK: report on various camps after visit of inspection by Edward G Lowry, Special Attaché in Charge (German Division), US Embassy, London (in docket no. 67983). Measures against Germans in UK. Repatriation of German males from UK. Ignacz Rosenbluth, German prisoner of war in South Africa: deposit of property in a bank and placed to his credit on his release. Internment of German subjects in UK. Repatriation of German subjects from South Africa: proposed draft stating particulars of means necessary for repatriation. Treatment of enemy 'aliens' in South Africa: reports of anti-German disturbances and proposed government action; includes several press reports from the Cape Times , 13-15 May 1915. Repatriation of enemy 'aliens' from colonies and self-governing dominions. Treatment of German subjects and property in the Cameroons. Treatment of German prisoners at Singapore. Mrs Edith Hering, German subject arrested and imprisoned at Edinburgh: sentence passed. Treatment of German prisoners at Rottnest, Western Australia. Transfer of German subjects from Singapore to Liverpool, Australia. Anglo-French forces in the Cameroons: German complaint regarding their conduct. Treatment of German prisoners in the Straits Settlements. Treatment of German prisoners in Liverpool camp, near Sydney, New South Wales. German civilians interned at Ahmednagar, India: regulations; German allegation that prisoners only allowed to write in English. German prisoners in Togoland and Dahomey: alleged cruelties. German prisoners' camps in UK: further reports by Edward G Lowry, Special Attaché in Charge (German Division), US Embassy, London (in docket no. 102948). Treatment of German prisoners at Liverpool, New South Wales: includes printed copy of Manual of War Precautions , Commonwealth of Australia, Department of Defence, 1915 (in docket no. 104429). Complaints of prisoners at Knockaloe camp, Isle of Man. Treatment of prisoners at Alexandra Palace, London: complaint by Colonel Friedrich, Officer in Charge of Prisoners of War Department, Prussian Ministry of War, and investigation by Edward G Lowry, Special Attaché in Charge (German Division), US Embassy, London. Conditions in prisoners' camps at Ragama and Ahmednagar, India. German prisoners of war at Bermuda: claims of prisoners for pay and release on undertaking not to join armed forces. Code 1218 File 263 (papers 54247-112033).

Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners interned and detained by British: enquiries regarding whereabouts and possible release, including: Hans Zwingauer, detained at Wakefield: consideration of claim for release as member of German Medical Personnel. Detention of four German clergymen in Australia: Pastor Treuz; Pastor Schafhirt, Pastor Frank, and Pastor Gutekunst. Germans detained in Malta in violation of agreement. Franz Steier, detained at Shrewsbury. E Helmich and A Holst, detained in India. Detention of Germans in England in violation of agreement: includes forms of enquiry for individual prisoners, Fürst von Wahlstatt Blücher, Eduard Borger, Hans Domschke, Ernst Fricke, Dr Richard Häffner, Dr Hermann Hammann, Johann Oskar Krafft, Jakob Leisner, Dr Nolte, Mr Roese, Jakob Schäfer. Albert Lindemann, German invalid civilian in South Africa. Dr Schultz, German ex-Governor of Samoa, interned as prisoner of war in New Zealand. Detention of missionaries in British possessions. German boys interned at Lancaster. Helmuth Reinhardt, detained in England: request for release and permission to proceed to the US; subsequently refused. Gustav Weber, formerly District Judge, German New Guinea: return to Germany. Detention of Germans entitled to release: Otto Grosse and Dr Kain, detained in Malta. James Zutraven, German invalid civilian interned in London. Ernest Wermecke, cashier to United States Steel Products Company, interned in London. Dr Müller and Dr Werner, German physicians detained in Australia following their removal from Singapore. Dr Ernst Simon, detained in Maritzburg, South Africa. General exchange of missionaries. Pastor Paul Coerper, late military chaplain at Luderitzbucht: return to Germany from South Africa. Walter Steffens, detained at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield. August Landler, detained in England: request for release and permission to proceed to the US; subsequently refused. Germans under 17 years detained at Lancaster. Johann Krafft. German missionary detained at Ahmednagar, India. Albert Lichtenstern, repatriation from Tilbury for Rotterdam. Rudolf Bleyer, interned in UK. Count Stolberg, interned in Ireland at Oldcastle, County Meath. Georg Mondorf, interned in UK: refusal of request for a permit to proceed to Venezuela. Baron Louis von Horst: question of his release on grounds of US nationality. Repatriation of enemy subjects from South Africa. Mr Wilmsen, dispensing chemist detained in South Africa. Fritz Finsterbusch, 16 year old sailor detained in UK. German subjects over 55 years returning to Germany. Repatriation of German subjects from UK. Carl Müller, detained at Edinburgh Castle. Hans Rost, 16 year old cabin boy, interned at Handforth. Release of German subjects in South Africa: Edmund Fleming; Leopold Pahl; Franz Muller. German missionaries in India. Oscar Ehlers, detained in UK: request for release as a Dominican citizen. Expenses incurred in repatriation of Germans. Matthieu Ottenwaelder, detained on Isle of Man: enquiry from his sister, Mrs Emilie des Fossis of New York City. John Meyong, detained at Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Code 1218 File 122 (papers 102741-end).

Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including: Sentences passed on German prisoners at Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa. Ration scale at Pietermaritzburg Camp. Reports on internment camps at Alexandra Palace, London; Frith Hill, near Frimley, Surrey; Leigh, Lancashire; Dorchester; and Donington Hall, Derbyshire. Internment camp at Knockaloe, Isle of Man: adverse German press cuttings from Kölnische Zeitung of 16 July 1916 and National Zeitung of 19 July 1916. Reports by US Embassy officials on their visits from 31 August to 6 September 1916 and on 28 and 29 November 1916 (the latter including the Isle of Man Insane Asylum and the Private General Hospital, Isle of Man). Detention barracks at Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Otto Mueller: his alleged ill-treatment while detained in Canada. Printed despatch from the Government of India concerning the treatment of German subjects at Ahmednagar Camp. Lieutenant Thomas von Grote: his sentence remitted by the Army Council; returned to internment in the officers' camp at Holyport, Berkshire. Camp for civilian prisoners at Glendairy, Barbados, West Indies. Labour of German prisoners in Canada. Treatment of German prisoners in Jamaica and South Australia. Reports on working camps at Lentran, Inverness-shire; Nethybridge, Inverness-shire; Kinlochleven, Argyllshire; Redesdale, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland; Healeyfield, Castleside, Durham; Newlandside, Stanhope, Durham. Treatment of German soldiers serving punishment sentences. Report on place of internment for alien civilians at Gainsborough Road, Hackney Wick, London. Housing of German prisoners in Britain: insistence by German Government that barracks replace tents, otherwise reprisals to be taken. Medical and dental treatment of prisoners in Canada. Internment camp at Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Treatment of German prisoners in hospitals in Britain. Restrictions on visitors' interviews at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia. Report on outbreak of gastro-intestinal disorder at Lower Southern Hospital at Dartford, Kent; US Embassy visits to hospitals at Dartford and Devonport requested. Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain. Gefreiter Julius Koch and Unteroffizier Heinrich Brinkmann: their complaints about conditions of punishment for attempting to escape refuted by War Office. Internment camp at Torrens Island, South Australia. Code 1218 File 591 (papers 180902-end).

Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including: German prisoners at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: delay in their receipt of correspondence. Disciplinary measures taken at Dorchester Camp. Memorandum on Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man. Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain, in punishment for assaulting the Reverend Dr Cox. Internment camp at Tenom, North Borneo. August Arndt and Adolf Kempe, sentenced for escaping. Alleged ill-treatment of German women and children in Britain: detailed report in tabular form by Home Office regarding each allegation. Postal arrangements for prisoners. Lieutenant Dix and Lieutenant Nothnagel: return of their swords. Transfer of German prisoners and interned civilians from Hong Kong to Australia. Interned Germans at Alexandra Palace, London. Report by US Embassy staff on their visit to the four camps for civilian prisoners at Knockaloe, Isle of Man. Treatment of Germans brought to Britain from Africa. Reports on internment camps at Douglas, Isle of Man, and at Stobs, near Hawick, Roxburghshire. Request for free parcel postage to prisoners. Conditions in prisoners' camps at Stratford, London, and in Malta. Postal regulations for prisoners interned in South West Africa. Flogging of Germans at the prisoners' camp at Torrens Island, South Australia. Officer prisoners' camps at Holyport, Berkshire, and Handforth, Cheshire. Alleged ill-treatment of German prisoners in Canada; reports on camps. Reports on prisoners' camps at Eastcote, Northamptonshire; Leigh, Lancashire; and Cornwallis Road, Upper Holloway, London. Prisoners' camps in India at Ahmednagar and Belgaum. Request by the Reverend A O T Hellerström to visit prisoners' camps. International Committee of the Red Cross, printed report (in French) of its representatives' visits to camps at Dorchester, Donington Hall, Frith Hill, Handforth, Leigh, Knockaloe and Douglas. Hospital for wounded prisoners at Dartford, Kent. Gosch Loy Ehlers, interned at Oldcastle Camp, County Meath, Ireland. Code 1218 File 591 (to paper 58828).