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Turkey: Prisoners, including: Lily Thomson, in Constantinople: arrangements for return...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/93
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FO 383/93
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Date (When the record was created)
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1915
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Description (What the record is about)
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Turkey: Prisoners, including:
Lily Thomson, in Constantinople: arrangements for return to UK via Dedeagatch.
Ottoman telegraph officials in Cyrpus and at Suakin: salaries of staff of Ottoman Cable Company; includes details of individuals (in docket no. 28912).
Colonel Subhi Bey, former Ottoman commander and acting Governor General, Bassorah (Basra): enquiries regarding welfare and whereabouts.
Arrival of refugees from Syria.
American subjects in Persian Gulf ports.
Detention of Ottoman Consul General at Bombay.
Detention of Basri Bey, former acting Turkish Consul General at Bombay.
Abdullah Rahmi Effendi, Turkish Government Auditor at Assir in the Yemen: detention in Malta.
Ali Haider Bey, Turkish engineer detained at Alexandria: proposal to detain him until Turkish authorities release Sir John Jackson's employees in captivity in Damascus and Turkey.
Mehmed Tevfik Hadjar (Mohammed Tewfik El-Hadjar), Ottoman merchant, interned in Cairo: protests against his detention.
Detention of two Pan-Arab leaders from Egypt at Basra, and subsequent release.
Communications between the UK and Turkey, etc, including:
- Communication with Baghdad: request for advice from Boote, Edgar, Grace & Rylands, solicitors of Manchester, acting as administrators for estate in the UK of a Turk (Meer Elias) who died in Baghdad.
- Communication with staff in Turkey: request for advice from Borax Consolidated Ltd, of London.
- Letter for American subject at Beirut: arrangements for transmission from Miss A Nugent to the recipient, Dr Ward of the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, via the US Ambassador at Constantinople.
- Letters from prisoners of war addressed to Turkey: arrangements.
- Parcels for prisoners interned in Turkey.
- Correspondence facilities for prisoners.
- Correspondence to and from prisoners of war in Turkey.
- Enquiry for Mr Bunning, engineer in charge of Borax Consolidated Ltd mines at Sultan-Tchair near Panderma.
- Postal facilities for prisoners of war in Turkey and in hands of HM Government.
- Correspondence of Turkish prisoners of war.
- Documents for Mr Salih Eliahou Shlomo David at Baghdad.
- Correspondence for prisoners in Turkey: transmission of letters for crew of submarine A.E.2.
- Letters addressed care of American Embassy, Constantinople.
- Remittances to prisoners by money orders.
- Correspondence for British and French interned civilians.
- Crews of City of Rhios and Assiout at Magnesia: restrictions on exchange of correspondence and parcels; includes list of individuals (in docket no. 154923).
- Limitation of correspondence of prisoners in Turkey.
- Non-arrival of correspondence sent to prisoners in Turkey.
- Correspondence for prisoners via Ottoman Red Crescent.
- Prisoners' correspondence: agreement with Turkey.
- Communication with interned seamen at Smyrna.
- British prisoners at Angora.
- Restrictions on correspondence of British prisoners in Turkey: reprisals.
Code 1244 File 264-1537.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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File 264-1537.
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