Germany: Prisoners, including: Treatment of enemy missionaries by British authorities...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of enemy missionaries by British authorities in India and West Africa, including:

• Bâle (or Basle) missionaries: alleged ill-treatment by British authorities; accusations by Thomas Oehler, German director of the Bâle Mission, published in the 'Basler Nachrichten'.
• Correspondence from Rev Paul Christ, president of Evangelical Missionary Society, Basle.
• Communiqué inserted in Swiss newspapers by British Legation, Berne.
• Treatment of German missionaries in West Africa: correspondence from J R Mozley of Headingley, Leeds.
• Major-General C M Dobell, commander of Allied Forces in West Africa: reports of arms and ammunition concealed and discovered on premises of the Basel Mission Trading Company, and refusal to allow certain missionaries to return to their posts.
• Basle Mission: information from W S Wallace, the censor at Accra, regarding the mission's undesirability; reference to correspondence from Rev F Andres of the mission at Accra; includes printed copies (in German) of the mission's annual reports (in docket no. 134035).
• Refutation by Maj-Gen Dobell of allegations of ill-treatment: printed copy; request by HM Minister, Berne, for copies for local distribution.
• Parliamentary paper regarding alleged ill-treatment: draft printed copy of 'Correspondence relative to the Alleged Ill-treatment of German Subjects Captured in the Cameroons' (in docket no. 168272).
• Basle missionaries in the Cameroons: correspondence with India Office enclosing copy of memorandum prepared by the department.
• German Government protest regarding treatment of German missionaries in the Cameroons, with special reference to members of the Mission House of Sacred Heart of Jesus.
• Lieut Otto Wienicke, German subject interned at Holyport near Maidenhead: protests against action of HM Government in not answering his letters and publishing refutation of alleged ill-treatment.

German interests in the Bahamas.

Richard Wolf Gordon, late British Resident Magistrate in Nyasaland, now interned in Germany: pension; arrangements for payments; question of whether payments may be made from relief funds; annuity from Probate Registry; possibility of re-employment; receipts for payments.

Belgian prisoners in Germany: arrangements for transmission of correspondence to and from relatives in UK.

Ralph Bernal, late British Consul at Stettin: arrangements for payment of rent and charges on his flat at Stettin.

Mrs Auguste Caroline Josephine Pope: notification of her death in Dresden; question of payment of outstanding annuity.

Miss Marie Daninger, residing in Munich: payment of annuity from Messrs Fergusson & Stephen of Dundee, Scotland.

Proposed exchange of automobile belonging to H H Gastrell, former UK Consul in Stuttgart, and motor boat belonging to Mr von Hedemann, retired German Consul in Mombassa.

Relief for prisoners: transmission of money to Berlin for relief of non-commissioned officers and men of the Coldstream Guards held as prisoners of war.

British Relief Fund in Berlin: statements of accounts.

UK Embassy in Berlin: expenditure on building.

Frank Herbert Zahringer: communication from his father, Mr P Zahringer of Hampstead, London, notifying his son's return; question of cost of return being repayable to HM Government.

John Bossart (or Bosshart), Swiss citizen of German extraction, delegate of the Commercial Society of Missions: report that he had been commissioned to go to the Cameroons to look after interests of the Society and property of the Basle Mission; decision to deport Mr Bossart.

Code 1218 File 4851-5972.

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