Item FO 383/35 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Pay of four German officers detained on HMT Canada : request for...

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.

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