Objekt FO 383/280 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Arrangement for payments by the German Government on behalf of German civilians...

Germany: Prisoners, including: Arrangement for payments by the German Government on behalf of German civilians interned in various camps in the British dominions. Proposed reciprocal agreement regarding the treatment of interned midshipmen, including: German proposal that midshipmen should be treated as officers. Midshipman Raymond Prest, interned at Karlsruhe Camp: enquiry from Mr J Prest about his son; confirmation by the German authorities that he was receiving officers pay. Kurt Jöhl, interned at Colsterdale Camp: confirmation that he was receiving regular payments. Enquiry about payments for food made by two cadets of SS Yarrowdale interned at the officers camp at Crefeld. Otto Gunther: request by German authorities for the return of his body following his death at the internment camp at Leigh. German reserve officers, including: Werner Kirchhof: notification by the German authorities of his promotion to Leutnant der Reserve, and arrangements for him to be transferred to an officers camp. Alexander Camerle and Anton Gerl: information that they had been transferred from Liverpool, New South Wales, to Shanghai. Payments to German reserve officers at Wakefield Camp. Payments to German reserve officers at Verdala Camp, Malta. Naval Lieutenant of the Reserve A Gotthardt, interned at Trial Bay, New South Wales: confirmation that he was receiving officers pay. Transfer of British officer prisoners to Switzerland, including: Major P G Petavel: detention in Germany as a reprisal. Lieutenant Colonel C M Stephenson: release to Switzerland in exchange for Lieutenant Kuhn. Major C J Simpson: arrangements for his transfer to Switzerland. Detention of certain British officers due to be transferred to Switzerland: enquiry from Lady Stair. Arrival of various British officers in Switzerland (names in docket no. 15388). Refusal by the German authorities to transfer four British officers (names in docket no. 23560) to Switzerland, following their examination at Villingen. Further detention of British officers as a reprisal. Captain Button: enquiry from his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Button, about the reasons for the continued detention of her husband. Major P G Petavel, interned at Villingen: enquiry from his brother, Mr J E Petavel. Dr Pfeiffer: reasons for his detention in the UK. Paul Kürschner: rejection of his appeal for medical transfer to Switzerland; information that Karl Kirshner had been transferred. Proposal by the German Government for the transfer of Captain Button and two other British officers to Switzerland in exchange for Dr Pfeiffer and Dr Strauss. German memorandum explaining the reasons for the non-transfer of Major Bailey, Major Petavel, Captain Button and Commander Whitfield to Switzerland. Mademoiselle de Treuilh of the French Red Cross: information on the ill-health of Major Petavel, and allegations of the ill-treatment of British prisoners by the Germans at Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Reverend Johann Fuchs, interned at Ahmednagar, India: decision by the Government of India not to repatriate him. References to matters relating to prisoners in the foreign press: English translations of articles, with a photograph of various British prisoners, including Captain Button, Colonel Stephenson and Lord Stair (in docket no. 24107). Costs of the repatriation of Dr Glantz and Dr Zieschank from New Zealand. German nationals in New Guinea, including: Allegations of breaches of the terms of capitulation and the ill-treatment of German nationals. List of German subjects transferred from Nauru to Australia (in docket no. 17957), with an amended list in docket no. 125990; provision of funds for them by the German Government. Protest by the German authorities about the deportation of German subjects from Nauru and New Guinea: request for information from the Australian Government. German reprisals resulting from the detention of six German colonial officials (names in docket no. 180137). European War: Correspondence respecting Military Operations against German Possessions in the Western Pacific : Parliamentary command paper [Cd. 7975] dated November 1915. Repatriation of sick and incapacitated German prisoners, including: Arrival of the hospital ship St Denys at the Hook of Holland. Repatriation of German prisoners fom German South West Africa. Travel arrangements for mentally ill prisoners. List of injured British prisoners to be repatriated from Germany (in docket no. 5229). Proposed dates for the exchange of incapacitated prisoners. Arrangements for the transfer of German prisoners on the hospital ship St Denys to the Hook of Holland, and for its return the following day with British prisoners. Request for German assurance that the ship would be immune from attack on both voyages. Proposal to carry out the transfers using Dutch paddle-steamers, as the immunity of the hospital ships could not be guaranteed. Miss Rose Vulliamy: permission for her to travel from the Netherlands to the UK. Draft press notice on the reciprocal repatriation of incapacitated prisoners. Suspension of the proposed repatriation of combatant and civilian prisoners, due to the threat of unrestrained submarine warfare. Code 1218 Files 1967-3175 (to paper 35783).

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