Germany: Prisoners, including: Conditions for British civilian prisoners in Germany,...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Conditions for British civilian prisoners in Germany, including:

• Consignments of food, milk, flour, clothing and tobacco for Ruhleben; includes label used for food parcels sent to camp (in docket no. 152114).
• Arthur H J Keane, formerly a prisoner in Ruhleben: his report on conditions there.
• Mrs E J Hall, of Arklow, Co Wicklow, Ireland, enquires after her son Edward K Hall, prisoner in Ruhleben.
• Proposed exchange of civilian prisoners.
• Substantial report on Ruhleben Camp by Ellis Loring Dresel, of the United States Embassy staff, presented to James W Gerard, United States Ambassador at Berlin. With appendixes: (1) Civil camp officials; (2) Civil barrack officials; (3) Canteen figures; (4) Watch and Works Committee; (5) Ruhleben Arts and Science Union; (6) Report on Ruhleben Camp School for Spring Term 1916; (7) Ruhleben Camp School prospectus of work for Summer Term 1916; (8) Dental Department finances.
• Montgomery N Simms, British subject interned at Ruhleben: enquiry after him by his brother, the Reverend A E N Simms.
• Ethelbert Caerleon Macintosh, interned at Ruhleben: enquiry after him by his mother, Mrs Annie Macintosh.
• Relief of persons claiming to be British subjects by naturalisation in Overseas Dominions.
• Permission sought to export yards of red sateen and white muslin for Camp entertainments at Ruhleben.
• Dr Weiler's Sanatorium in Berlin.
• L B Sloan and Eric Sloane, interned at Ruhleben: letter from father, L G Sloane, about them.
• Diet of British civilian prisoners in Germany.
• Professor E W Patchett, interned at Ruhleben: complains about Mr Powell, the Captain of the Camp.
• Sanitary material for Ruhleben.
• Articles for Ruhleben barber's shop.
• Mental condition of Ruhleben prisoners.
• Godfrey Ludlow, Australian violinist interned at Ruhleben: plea from his mother, Mrs Helena E Ludlow.
• J L Heinke, interned at Ruhleben: his mother, Mrs R C Heinke, asks if the methods of the Relief Committee could be modified.
• Joseph Duncan, interned at Ruhleben: non-receipt of half the parcels sent weekly by the City of Dundee Prisoners of War Help Committee; situation improves and he receives them regularly.
• Edwin Haines, repatriated from Ruhleben on 6 September 1916: complains about food there and loss of bag in transit to London.
• Despatch of parcels to Ruhleben.
• English tobacco received for sale in the Ruhleben Canteen.
• Wilfred Stirling Buckley, in Dr Weiler's Sanatorium with neurasthenia: sending of remittance to him.
• Messrs Butterworth and Cookson permitted to correspond with the Committee of the Civilian Prisoners' Relief Fund (For Lancashire and Cheshire Men Interned in Germany).
• Letter from J Powell, Captain of Ruhleben Camp, to Miss E J Davies, Secretary of the Prisoners of War Help Committee, concerning consignments of food and clothing sent to Ruhleben.
• Frank W Richards of Cardiff asserts there are 800 Pro-Germans or German Jews interned at Ruhleben, who benefit from food parcels sent to them from England by various societies, and have sold the contents outside the camp or to German guards.
• Heating arrangements at Ruhleben.
• Alleged delay in receipt of correspondence from Ruhleben Camp, Spandau, near Berlin, Germany.
• John Hatfield of Sutton, Surrey: produces irresponsible and misleading memoranda about conditions at Ruhleben which could cause anxiety among prisoners' relatives; Prisoners of War Department of Foreign Office sends him a warning letter. He replies, but Department maintains its stance.
• Germany proposes the transfer of 700 civilian prisoners from Ruhleben Camp to Havelberg Camp, Germany, to put an end to complaints about overcrowding. Prisoners draft a letter expressing their wish to stay together at Ruhleben. Foreign Office says that if agreement is soon reached about the repatriation of British and German civilians over 45 years of age, the question of overcrowding doesn't arise.

Code 1218 File 54 (papers 150623-end).

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