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Germany: Prisoners, including: Baden civilian prisoners in UK, including: List of civil interned Baden prisoners in England: request from Fraulein von Cranach, member of 'Badische Gefangenenfuersorge' of Freiburg. Baden civilian prisoners interned in UK: inability of War Office to accede to request for list due to possible inaccuracies. List of interned civilians in UK who are natives of the Grand Duchy of Baden: request to British Red Cross Society for desired information. Sentences passed on German subjects in Samoa, including: Franz Pfeil, German subject of military age, arrested at Apia, Samoa, and subsequently transported. Request by Governor of New Zealand for advice regarding uniformity of sentencing. Sentences on German subjects in Samoa: includes list of German subjects convicted by military courts (in docket no. 139001). Reported remission of sentence on Franz Pfeil. Sentences on German subjects in Samoa: includes list of German subjects convicted by military courts, and also list of British and American subjects (in docket no. 157114). Baron Eugene Louis Bernard von Schneider, German subject, including: Attempts to be domiciled outside London: question of whether his statements may be substantiated. Petition for his release from Knockaloe camp, Isle of Man. Consideration of his application for exemption from internment: Advisory Committee view that application was not considered justifiable. German civilians detained at Singapore. Count Victor von Westarp, German arrested from Dutch vessel: request for release as he was bearing a safe certificate granted by HM Consul General, Rio. Exchange agreement with German Government. German East Africa and missionaries, including: Exchange of civilians detained in German East Africa and British East Africa: includes list of members of Universities Mission interned in German East Africa (in docket no. 92451). Members of the Mission in German East Africa: includes list of members of The Universities Mission to Central Africa (in docket no. 97293). Release of women and clergy from German East Africa. Members of the Church Missionary Society in German East Africa. Repatriation of British subjects from German East Africa. Church Missionary Society: communication with their missionaries in German East Africa. Return of civilians to UK from infected camps in Germany. German prisoners' revolt at Douglas camp, Isle of Man. Ferdinand Gloze, prisoner of war at Wakefield, former acting German Consul in Nigeria: arrangements for transmission of his documents. J L Hall, German military deserter: arrival in UK at Newcastle; refusal for him and his family to land in UK. V Haag, British subject: transfer from Ruhleben to Stadtvogtei prison, Berlin. Compensation claim by Mrs Bradley of High Barnet, Hertfordshire, regarding treatment of her husband, General Bradley, in Germany: question of legal assistance. John MacLinks, British subject interned at Stadtvogtei-Gefängnis, Berlin: letter for transmission to Mr Valentine Williams of the Daily Mail regarding arrangements for his belongings in London. Financial allowance as compensation for internment: application from J A Hall of South Shields for hardships during time of arrest and internment in Germany. Expulsion of German subjects from UK: Dutch Government request for information as most deported Germans would return to Germany via the Netherlands. Madame de Abreu, alleged Brazilian citizen residing in Cassel: request for permission from HM Government to receive a monthly remittance from Messieurs Syers of Liverpool. Transfer of insurance policies: request from F W Haydon, British subject interned at Ruhleben. Transfer of German insurance policies to British companies: Board of Trade denial of proposed arrangement. Reported murder of German in Belgian Congo. Letters addressed to US Consul, Berlin. Rent of HM Legation and Consulate General at Munich. Scientific material left at Rabaul by an expedition sent to German New Guinea to investigate local diseases: request by German Foreign Ministry for its recovery and return; decision of Australian Government to retain material until end of war. Insurance premium of Theodor Voigt, a German subject previously domiciled in London, now returned to Germany: request by Mr Voigt for payment of premium. Sentences passed on Germans Mr Hahn and Mr Müller, convicted in London for espionage: Hahn sentenced to seven years penal servitude; Müller sentenced to death; verification that Müller was not Otto Müller of Adelebsen or Tell Muller, Swiss subject. Reported shooting of German missionary H Palm in vicinity of Lake Victoria, by British: investigation into circumstances; report that he was shot during military operations and was a reservist bearing arms. Capt von Klewitz and Lieut Mayer, German officers interned in concentration camp at Liverpool, near Sydney, Australia: possible transfer to England. Karl F Melchers and Otto Moeller, German subjects interned at Edinburgh: complaints respecting arrest and detention flowing their removal from a neutral Danish vessel; investigation into circumstances; consideration of regulations regarding removal of enemy subjects from neutral vessels. Code 1218 File 77354-84759.
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The National Archives >> Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office >> Records of various First World War Departments >> Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from 1906
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