Germany: Prisoners, including: Instructions for German officials at US Consulate...

FO 383/68

1915

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Instructions for German officials at US Consulate General in London.

Rev G H Weber, German subject, former British Chaplain in Bonn: request for assistance.

Safe conducts for German officials: Felix Reinsdorff, late German Consul General at Saigon; Paul Falcke, German Consul General at New York.

Miss Ruby Simmons, British subject, aged 15 years, in Blankenburg, including:

• Requests for assistance to return to England.
• Enquiries from her mother, Mrs Simmons of Portman Square, London.
• Arrangements for her father, Mr A Simmons, to pay outstanding account of Frau Carola Knoff in Blankenburg.
• Refusal of Miss Simmons to return to UK without direct instructions from her father.

Proposed removal of German missionaries at Lebebe.

Miss Katherine Alice Leonie Gray, British subject in Berlin: requests from her mother, Mrs Katherine Gray of Brompton Square, London, for assistance in returning her daughter to England and application for remittance to Germany; refusal of Miss Gray to return.

Death of Admiral W W Chilcott at Bad Nauheim, including:

• Funeral of Admiral Chilcott.
• Papers to be forwarded to Mrs Chilcott.
• Mrs Chilcott in Germany: arrangements for payment of Admiral Chilcott's pension; assistance for return to England.

David Russell, British subject interned at Ruhleben: request for information about his German-born wife and family in UK; report that they had been admitted into the Hull workhouse on arrival in destitution to UK; request for arrangements for Mrs Russell to see her children.

Detention of Rudolf Blaicher and Jacob Haas as prisoners of war in England: German Government enquiry regarding possibility of their release being promised on deposit of money as security.

R G Kottich, South African student in Germany: transmission of correspondence and certificate of diligence to continue his studies; Foreign Office opinion that his continued attendance at the University of Berlin would be undesirable.

Conditions at Ruhleben, including:

• Report by G W Minot [Secretary in US Embassy at Berlin], upon conditions at camp: includes enclosures showing colour plan of Ruhleben and selection of programmes of entertainments and sports events to have taken place with individual names of participants and competitors (in docket no. 78094).
• Conditions of British subjects returned from Ruhleben.
• Smallpox at Ruhleben.
• Cases of ill-treatment of British subjects in Germany.
• Ruhleben camp news: includes typed copy of 'Ruhleben Camp News', issue No. 2 of 27 January 1915, and printed copy (in French) of Le Camp de Gottingen, issue No. 6 of 21 March 1915 (in docket no. 76915).
• British prisoners at Ruhleben: report of improvement.
• Books for educational purposes at Ruhleben.
• Treatment of civilians at Ruhleben.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: Information Bureau, Memo. No. 7 (in docket no. 93317).
• Chocolate, biscuits and cakes for prisoners at Ruhleben.
• Statements by Thomas Whitehead, recently released from Ruhleben.
• William Stern, prisoner at Ruhleben: extracts from his letters written from the camp.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: report by Thomas Akeroyd, recently escaped, regarding treatment of British civilian prisoners.
• Baseball outfit for Canadian subjects at Ruhleben: arrangements for supply, and funding from Camp Sports' Fund.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: exchanges of individuals, and detention of ships' boys.
• Winter clothing for British civilians at Ruhleben.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: interview with William Simpson, recently released.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: postcard from Mr Stern at Ruhleben containing reference to a financial committee.
• British civilians at Ruhleben: personal letter from James W Gerard, US Embassy, Berlin.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: criticism by Geoffrey Pyke, recently a civilian prisoner at the camp, of Mr Minot's favourable report on the camp, with character sketch of German officials in charge.
• Assistance to British civilians at Ruhleben: clothing and food required by Fraulein von Cranach.
• Civilian prisoners in Ruhleben: relief; request by Prisoners of War Help Committee for accounts.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: report by Dr Karl Ohnesorg, US Assistant Naval attaché, on lazaret in camp and on Dr Weiler's Sanatorium.
• Food for Jewish prisoners at Ruhleben.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: letter from Mrs Agatha M Chilcott, widow of Admiral Chilcott, regarding request from Ruhlebenian urging a visit from Mr Gerard, US Embassy, Berlin, with special reference to condition of invalids.

Code 1218 File 74702-76915 (to paper 126981).

File 74702-76915 (to pp.126981).

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