Item FO 383/169 - Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposed exchanges, including: Return of Prince and Princess Salm Salm to Germany:...

Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposed exchanges, including: Return of Prince and Princess Salm Salm to Germany: their thanks to the Governor of Gibraltar and Lady Miles. W S Cohn, a chemist, interned at Nauheim, and Henri Brass, interned at Pietermaritzburg. General Bradley, interned in Schloss Celle, and Captain von Feilitzsch. Major Ponsonby Shaw, interned at Schloss Celle, and Hauptmann Baron Karl Hermann von Leonhardi (who retired from the Saxon Grenadier Guards in July 1872). Dr Winthrop P Bell, Canadian subject interned at Ruhleben, and John A Fahr, German subject interned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Georg Täufert, Administrator of the New Guinea Company, interned in Australia, and Captain Archibald Montgomery-Campbell, interned at Schloss Celle, Hanover: report that Army Council not in favour of exchange; letter from Mrs Leather Culley to Viscount Grey of Falloden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Montgomery-Campbell's behalf. Captain J M Henderson, interned in Germany. M S Pritchard, interned at Ruhleben, and Ernst Goetz, interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire. P H Anderson, interned in Germany. German Government willingness to exchange Reginald Thompson, General Bradley and George Fergusson with von Bülow, von Trotha and Professor Etscheit. J H Wiglesworth of Pembroke College, Cambridge, interned at Ruhleben: view that exchanges of individual civilian prisoners were not practicable. Captain R A Reddie, interned at Celle, Oberleutnant Ludwig Mayr, and Major B H Chetwynd-Stapylton. Captain D Baird-Douglas, interned at Crefeld, and Lieutenant Otto Voss, interned at Donington Hall, Derbyshire. W S Cohn, interned at Ruhleben, and Mr Brass, interned in South Africa. Leopold von Plessen, interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire. Walter Butterworth, Hon Secretary of the Manchester Liberal Federation, interned at Ruhleben: complaint by him that he is detained while younger Englishmen are allowed special exchange. Captain F W Hamilton, retired officer interned at Schloss Celle, and Baron Leopold von Plessen: transfer of Captain Hamilton to Bad Blenhorst. R Herdman Pender, interned at Ruhleben: representation by his father, William Pender, bookbinder of Edinburgh, for an exchange; encloses copy of Prisoners' Pie , Ruhleben New Year 1916 prison magazine, of which his son was an editor (docket no. 80395). William Roylands Cooper, interned in Germany. Proposed exchanges of W G Shiell for S J Bieber, interned at Wakefield, and A L Lean for James Zutrauen, interned at Wakefield. George Frederick Fischer, interned at Ruhleben. Colonel Rawdon Ward, interned at Schloss Celle, and Dr Schultz, former German Governor of Samoa: non-agreement of Army Council with transfer. Carl Fuchs, British subject interned in Germany, and Max Dauthendey, German poet in Java. Douglas Munro, interned at Ruhleben, and Carl Müller, interned at Douglas, Isle of Man. British and German retired officers interned in Germany and British Empire. Lieutenant (retired) Lystem-Smythe and 'Hauptmann der Reserve' Adolf von Carlowitz-Ottendorf, interned at Pietermaritzburg. Internment of retired officers in Switzerland. Captain Reynolds, interned at Wahmberk, and Wolf von Trotha, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Code 1218 File 885 (papers 23577-176677).

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