Item FO 383/106 - Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Bebdon, a pan-Islamic agitator proceeding from Constantinople to Morocco via Gibraltar...

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FO 383/106

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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Bebdon, a pan-Islamic agitator proceeding from Constantinople to Morocco via Gibraltar...

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  • 1915 (Creation)

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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Bebdon, a pan-Islamic agitator proceeding from Constantinople to Morocco via Gibraltar and Algeciras: if found in Gibraltar he should be arrested. Treatment of prisoners in internment camps, including: International Red Cross Committee to investigate welfare of prisoners. German prisoners in English concentration camps. Professor Edouard Naville, Vice President of Geneva Red Cross: sent by International Red Cross Committee of Geneva to visit prison camps in England. Report of Mr John B Jackson, of the United States Embassy at Berlin, on his visit to England, made at the request of the German Government, to inspect ships and other places where German prisoners were held. Reports (in German) on visits to prison camps in United Kingdom and Colonies, France, Siberia and Germany. Reports laid before Budget Committee of the Reichstag. Sir Louis Mallet's reports on prison camps at Frongoch, Bala, Merionethshire; Leigh, Lancashire; Shrewsbury, Shropshire; and Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Colonel W C Anderson's reports on internment camps at Alexandra Palace, London; Stratford, East London; Stobs, Hawick, Roxburghshire; Shrewsbury, Shropshire; Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire; Leigh, Lancashire; Frongoch, Bala, Merionethshire; Dorchester, Dorset; and Holyport, Maidenhead, Berkshire. Heating of places of internment for officers. Arrest of German Medical Officer from the prize ship Spreewald ; his subsequent release. H F Weinlig detained at Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa: asks to be transferred from general camp to officers' camp because he had been Acting Consul General at Cape Town. British and French interests at Tsingtau (Qingdao), China. Remittances to enemy countries, including: Remittances to British subjects in Germany and Austria. Remittances to Union of South Africa subjects in Germany. Remittances to Madame Neumann, a Russian subject at Hanover. Remittances to Mr Gideon Roos, a South African, at Gottingen. Payments made through the American Embassy. Rates of exchange at which payments are to be made from British Funds in hands of United States Ambassador, Berlin. Repatriation of alien enemies. Shipment of Austrian or German subjects on Italian vessels. Foreign Office Circular about communication with enemy countries: General Post Office's comments on draft. Graves of British soldiers in France, including: Desire of Victoria League to take over the charge of British graves. Reburial of British soldiers. Identification of British soldiers buried in France: facilities for Red Cross representations. Repatriation of Germans and Austrians. Pay of prisoners interned in Union of South Africa. Code 1250 Files 1073-4143.

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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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