Germany: Prisoners, including: Conditions at Ruhleben, including: Views of Sir Louis...

FO 383/69

1915

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Conditions at Ruhleben, including:

• Views of Sir Louis Mallet, British Red Cross and Order of St John.
• Transfer of all civilian prisoners to Ruhleben: Foreign Office enquiry regarding lack of progress.
• Ruhleben dental surgery: establishment.
• Winter clothing for Ruhleben prisoners.
• Relief given to Ruhleben prisoners.
• Prohibition of luxuries at Ruhleben.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: letter from Miss Maud Egremont of Teddington, Middlesex, relating to report about sanitary conditions from her brother, Roland Egremont, recently returned from Ruhleben; question of compensation for losses.
• Relief to pro-German subjects in Ruhleben.
• Electric lights for Ruhleben nights.
• Boots and tobacco for Ruhleben prisoners.
• Jüdische Speisehalle and food for Jews at Ruhleben.
• Remittances for Ruhleben prisoner: enquiry from Mr J B Clark of Newcastle-on-Tyne regarding any official limit as to amount of money that may be supplied to his son in Ruhleben.
• Ruhleben conditions: interview with Andrew J Dolphin, recently repatriated
• Ruhleben relief accounts.
• Winter clothing for merchant seamen at Ruhleben.
• Transfer of all civilian prisoners to Ruhleben: delays from Wittenburg due to outbreak of typhus.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: criticism of Mr Minot's report.
• British civilians at Ruhleben: interview with Frederick Cox, one of party of invalid British civilians departed from Germany.
• Relief to Ruhlebenians who had applied for German naturalisation.
• Treatment of British civilians at Ruhleben: reports of interviews with returned prisoners with schedules of maltreatment (in docket no. 156355).
• British civilians at Sennelager.
• Treatment of prisoners in Ruhleben: Canadian prisoners; report of unsatisfactory treatment and request for enquiry.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: interview with Mr Hanson, recently released as an invalid; report from New Scotland Yard.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: further details from Mr W Stern of St Ives, Cornwall, about conditions and criticism of administration of camp.
• Administration (financial) of camp at Ruhleben: detailed report, with enclosures, from James W Gerard, US Embassy, Berlin.
• Photographs of Ruhleben: transfer of photographs for reproduction in press.
• Civil administration in Ruhleben camp: report from James W Gerard, US Embassy, Berlin, regarding administration of camp under new regime of civil authority; includes list of names (in docket no. 153287).
• Directory of British subjects at Ruhleben: transmission of revised copies.
• Releases from Ruhleben: report from Frederick W Hanson regarding release of certain persons alleged to be of pro-German sympathies.
• British subjects released from Ruhleben: request from Prisoners of War Committee for supply of lists of repatriated British subjects.
• Treatment of British prisoners at Ruhleben: suggestion from Robert Younger, Chairman of Committee upon the Treatment of British Prisoners in Germany, for removal of paragraph protesting against collective punishment of prisoners in any representations made to German Government.
• Mr Cox, British subject returned from Ruhleben: allegations of him being pro-German.
• Pro-Germans at Ruhleben: list of individuals with some personal details and remarks by William Stern and Richard Fosdick, both released from Ruhleben in 1915 (in docket no. 169394).
• Conditions at Ruhleben: contrast with camps in UK.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: detailed reply from Mr Gerard to criticism by Mr Stern in his report; includes names of individuals operating canteens, and coloured plan of camp (in docket no. 169800).
• Freemason prisoners at Ruhleben.
• Transfer of prisoners (civilian) to Ruhleben.
• Expenses of Ruhleben camp.
• British subjects in Ruhleben whose release might be desirable: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 178255).
• Ruhleben camp: clothing, etc; memorandum by the Prisoners of War Help Committee regarding distribution and payments charged, Germans from UK in Ruhleben, and advice from Rev Williams in Berlin; includes names and details of Germans on Board of Trade list (in docket no. 178395).
• Correspondence from Ruhleben prisoners.
• Admittance into Dr Weiler's sanatorium: regulation of transfers from Ruhleben.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: extract from narrative of a prisoner interned in Ruhleben.
• Remittances for Freemasons in Ruhleben.
• Conditions at Dr Weiler's sanatorium: unfavourable report by Dr Karl Ohnesorg and G W Minet, US representatives.
• Conditions at Ruhleben: criticisms from Louis Mallet, with copy of letter from an inmate M S Prichard.
• Civilians transferred from Sennelager to Ruhleben.
• Prisoners transferred from Stadtvogtei-Gefangnis to Ruhleben: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 186374).
• Ocular treatment for Ruhleben prisoners.
• Mr J Galbraith Horn's pamphlet on Ruhleben following his release.
• Transfer of civilian prisoners to Ruhleben: Wittenburg, Sennelager and Havelburg.
• British civilians transferred from Wittenburg to Ruhleben: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 189418).
• Biscuits for Ruhleben prisoner, Leslie Spicer.
• Stopping of relief to pro-Germans at Ruhleben: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 190195).
• Conditions at Ruhleben camp: report on camp with recommendations from the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War.
• Administration of Ruhleben camp.
• New arrivals at Ruhleben, December 1915: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 194865).
• Ruhleben: memorandum prepared by James Craik, of Aberdeen, recently released.
• Special medical treatment of prisoners of war.
• Report on Ruhleben camp: revised report from Mr Gerard; includes names of individuals operating canteens (in docket no. 202032).

Code 1218 File 76915 (papers 1227721-end).

File 76915 (pp.1227721-end).

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