Germany: Prisoners, including: Detention of Dr E Strauss, medical officer, late of...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Detention of Dr E Strauss, medical officer, late of the German hospital ship Ophelia, detained at Holyport, near Maidenhead.

Surgeon Ernest C Holtom, Royal Navy prisoner believed to be in custody of German forces in German East Africa.

Medical attention for German prisoner Wilhelm Penz, ship machinist interned on board the Royal Edward, lying off Southend-on-Sea: complaint from his wife, Frau A Penz, née Klatt, of Rostock.

Konrad Zorn, Lieutenant of Reserve in German Marines and form District Officer for Gobahir, German South West Africa: inquiry from Swedish Prime Minister.

Mrs Liebig of Natal: desire to join her husband in internment camp at Roberts Heights.

Colonel Stratton and Mr Shiell, detained in Germany: enquiries regarding possible release on health grounds.

Organisation for obtaining news of missing officers and men: system organised under the Pope; the 'Oeuvre Internationale pour les Prisonniers de Guerre' represented by Father Joseph Stamm.

System for tracing missing officers and men.

Posting of lists of missing Germans in camps in UK.

Preparation of enquiry forms for British prisoners in Germany.

Mr von Marillat, former citizen of the late Orange Free State, born in Germany: application for British passport.

Standard for determining the incapacity of an officer in questions of repatriation.

Herbert H Harman, British subject, resident in Germany at outbreak of war, interned at Ruhleben: enquiries regarding his welfare.

George Stanley Smith, British subject formerly interned at Ruhleben, now in Stadtvogtei Prison, Berlin: enquiries into reasons for transfer; report that he was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for submitting a false birth certificate.

John Harold Platford, interned at Ruhleben: transfer of power of attorney for transmission to his bankers.

Mr Steffensen, German sailor spy, reported on ship at Methil.

Hans Iskov, German-Dane from Schleswig: reported as captured by British authorities when deserted from German Army and trying to join Danish relatives in America; authorisation for his release.

Deaconesses Victoria Hospital in Cairo, Egypt: transmission of papers for Deaconesses Establishment in Kaiserwerth, Germany.

J A Rickley, American with German sympathies, employed by the Galle branch of Volkart Brothers: expulsion from Ceylon.

Lieut Hans Schluter, at King George's Hospital, Waterloo, London: request for exchange as an incapacitated prisoner.

James Lang MacGregor, of Charlery, prisoner of war at Ruhleben: request from his wife, Mrs Marie MacGregor of Sussex, for steps to be taken to persuade her husband to send her a deposit book with written authority to withdraw money.

Captain Hattersley, RAMC [Royal Army Medical Corps], interned at Döberitz: request for interview with member of US Embassy.

Arthur H J Keane, British subject interned at Ruhleben: transmission of his will, order for attorneys and letter to his wife, Mrs Rosalie B C Keane of South Hampstead; payment of rent on his premises leased in Chemnitz and storage fees of furniture.

Arthur Claude Cobham, language teacher interned at Ruhleben: report of his death in Germany at the provincial asylum at Neu-Ruppin; arrangements for forwarding of his death certificate and personal effects.

Proposed release or exchange of musicians: includes classified list of professional musicians interned in Ruhleben (in docket nos. 105324 and 109913).

Baron Walter von Radeck, in Germany: wish to remit sum of money to UK from Germany for payment of debts.

Flogging of German subjects at Rabaul, New Guinea, including:

• Punishment by flogging of German residents at Rabaul: note verbale from German Government (in German) protesting against sentence and manner in which it was carried out (in docket no. 162766).
• Treatment of German subjects in New Guinea: Australian Government white paper Rabaul: Alleged Misuse of Red Cross Gifts, and Looting by Military Officers and Privates - Report on, by Hon W M Hughes, Attorney-General (in docket no. 178836).
• Flogging of German subjects at Rabaul: Australian Government's decision.
• Flogging of German subjects at Rabaul: further note from German Government.

Code 1218 File 100091-105459.

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