America: Prisoners, including: Francisco Mercedes and Guillermo Rocha, both claiming...

FO 383/112

1915

America: Prisoners, including:

Francisco Mercedes and Guillermo Rocha, both claiming to be Uruguayan subjects, and Martin Herrera, claiming to be a Chilean subject: all interned at Gibraltar and subsequently at Handforth Camp, Cheshire. All thought to be impostors and German. Photograph of Mercedes in docket no.65495; photograph of Herrera in docket no.79711.

Kurt Steinmeyer: interned at Gibraltar. Claim to be a Chilean subject established; subsequently released.

Teodoro Ebensperger, colliery employee at Maesteg, Glamorganshire: Chilean nationality confirmed.

Walter B Cockerill, a United States subject and member of the Seventh Day Baptists mission: his deportation from the Nyasaland Protectorate, Africa.

Friedrich Lesser, a director of Borax Consolidated Ltd: a German subject who was granted Chilean nationality after the outbreak of war.

Alejandro Cruz Gaitan, taken prisoner at Gibraltar en route from Colon, Panama, to Cadiz, Spain: interned at Handforth Detention Camp, near Manchester, then Knockaloe, Isle of Man; claim to be Colombian subject unsubstantiated.

Maximo Larrea, Maximo White and Pablo Warnes: all prisoners interned at Knockaloe Detention Camp, Isle of Man; they claim to be Paraguayan subjects.

Correspondence concerning prisoners detained at Gibraltar and Malta to be conducted through War Office.

Ernesto von Mack, prisoner: a German naturalised in Peru in 1913.

Reverend Wilhelm Schroeder, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hartford, South Dakota, and Louis De Vries, instructor at Iowa State College: both United States subjects, and both (at different times) wrongly detained and imprisoned at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands.

Alberto Vasquez, prisoner claiming to be Peruvian subject.

Mr Pulitzer, editor of the 'New York World', leaves United States for England en route to France and Germany; suspected of being a spy for Germany.

Madame Belen Altuna, mother of Venezuelan Consul in London: her name removed from register of alien enemies.

Charles Joseph Waisch and George Vielmetter, United States subjects, travelling on captured Norwegian steamship, detained at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.

Alfredo Strauss, Venezuelan subject, travelling on Dutch steamship, detained at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.

Otto Spillern, an Austrian subject, seeks a permit to return to Brazil; refused.

Victor Henri Préalle, prisoner: claims to be a Brazilian subject.

Frank Koolac, arrested on a Danish steamship at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, and detained at Edinburgh Castle. Proved to be an American subject, and so released.

Oscar Ferdinando Ebert, a Brazilian subject, arrested at Falmouth, Cornwall.

C Lohn, a worker in seal fur skins, German by birth but naturalised in Britain before the War: United States Government asks Home Office to allow his departure for United States of America to fulfil a contract there.

Rodolpho Braga Albuquerque, a Brazilian subject arrested at Falmouth, Cornwall and interned at Alexandra Palace, London.

Josip Antonovitch, prisoner: correspondence from him to be forwarded to Chilean Legation in London.

Code 1245 Files 54485-160211.

Files 54485-160211.

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