Item FO 383/170 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposed exchanges, including: Captain F W Hamilton, retired officer interned first at...

Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposed exchanges, including: Captain F W Hamilton, retired officer interned first at Schloss Celle then at Bad Blenhorst: his letter to Ian Malcolm MP, with list of 12 officers (in docket no.187263). Dr Seitz, late Governor of German South West Africa, and wife, interned in South West Africa: question of their repatriation to Germany; report that his case must be decided in the terms of the surrender of the South West Africa Protectorate. Major Ponsonby Shaw, aged 69, interned at Schloss Celle: repatriation under Agreement for mutual repatriation of civilian prisoners, including retired officers, aged over 45 years. Captain P H Anderson, aged 45, interned at Schloss Celle: likelihood to be released under Agreement for retired officers aged 45 and over. Release of British and German retired officers. Transfer of invalid civilians to Switzerland. Captain R A Reddie, interned at Schloss Celle: letter from his wife pressing for his exchange. Proposed exchange and repatriation of German consular officials, including: David Millington, British engineer interned at Ruhleben: selected for exchange. Internment of former German consular officials Hans Schuler, Albert Brill and Reinecke on the arrival of the steamship Golconda in Britain from India on 12 January 1916. J H Fette, German interned at Douglas, Isle of Man. Richard Wolf Gordon, interned at Ruhleben: his desire to be exchanged. Oswald Wolff, interned at Ruhleben: pressure by his brother for exchange. H J N Hawkins, interned at Ruhleben: pressure from his wife to know about exchange. Ernst Koehler, German consular official interned at Peel, Isle of Man. Exchange: German willingness to release the Britons David Millington, L G Beaumont, H J N Hawkins, S H Urry, Joseph Hodgkinson, Edward O Coote, Walter A C Roberts, J Moresby White, Sir T Eden, Captain Heaton Armstrong and H H Holland (but not Stanley Lambert, Joseph R Weston and John Balfour) in exchange for German consular officials Albert Brill (ex-Madras), F J Reinecke (ex-Bassein), Hans Schuler (ex-Calcutta), Ludwig Thomas, Herman Paulus, Wilhelm Schulz (last three ex-Cairo) (all six in UK, at Alexandra Palace), Freudenberg (ex-Colombo) and Suhl (ex-Penang) (both in Australia), Erich F Ottens (ex-Salisbury) and Harnack (ex-Cape Town) (both in South Africa) and Carl Veit (ex-Djibouti) (in India). Sir Timothy Eden, interned at Ruhleben. Joseph Rowe Weston, interned at Ruhleben. H J Nelson Hawkins, interned in Germany. Captain W D F Heaton-Armstrong, interned in Germany. J Balfour, interned at Ruhleben. Horace H Holland, naval instructor: enquiry from his wife as to when exchange will take place. (He arrived in England on 14 July 1916.) E F Ottens: report of his likelihood of being of military value to enemy; wish of Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary, for a British subject of equal value to be exchanged. Stanley H Lambert, interned at Ruhleben: enquiry by his brother. W Freudenberg, Austro-Hungarian Consul at Colombo, interned in Australia. Listemann: telegram from Sir P Cox at Basra. Johanssen and Otto Ornstein, German officials: their internment and proposed repatriation. Richard Kuenzer, late German Consul at Drama, Macedonia, Greece, interned at Alexandria. Code 1218 Files 885 (papers 177559-end)-914.

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