Item FO 383/198 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposal by the Vatican that prisoners who had been held for more...

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.

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