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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Treatment of Bohemians, etc, as alien...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/107

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FO 383/107

Date

1915

Description

Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including:

Treatment of Bohemians, etc, as alien friends.

Miran Sevasly, an Armenian lawyer of Boston, Massachusetts: requests permission for six Armenians to travel to Cyprus to take action against Turkish rule.

Enemy doctors interned at Durban, Union of South Africa.

British Concentration Camps: report by Colonel Dietrich Schindler (a Swiss) on the camps at Handforth (near Manchester) and Queensferry (near Chester).

War Office's comments on Colonel Schindler's report. Includes Press cutting of his report in the 'Journal de Genève' of 17 January 1915.

Approved ports of landing in Britain for aliens, under the Aliens Restriction Order in Council.

Transmission of letters to Canadian Trade Commissioner at Rotterdam.

Refugees proceeding to areas prohibited to aliens in the United Kingdom. Includes a list of Civil Parishes within the prohibited areas, under the Aliens Restriction (Consolidation) Order, 1914.

Telegraph service between United Kingdom and Hungary.

Prisoners who claim to be officers, including:

  • Turkish and Austrian prisoners in UK who claim to be officers, and Turkish prisoners in Malta.
  • Pay of officer prisoners, including naval officers.
  • Pay of the captured crew of the Australian submarine AE2, held prisoner in Turkey.
  • Advances of pay to British officer prisoners, including naval prisoners, in Turkey.
  • Ottoman officer prisoners whose ranks are not known.

Enemy reservists in South Africa.

Austrian-Polish Catholic missionaries in Northern Rhodesia.

Mr Soon Lee, a Chinaman running a laundry business in Swindon, Wiltshire, seeks permission for his brothers Ah Goon Lee and Ah Cheng Lee to come from Hong Kong to England.

Lists of German and Austrian members of crews of ships detained in Indian ports.

Separation of Germans and Austrians in detention camps.

Adolf Cadez and Francis Beckshäfer: two Franciscan priests deported from Egypt and detained at Malta.

Treatment of alien enemies removed from ships, including:

  • Members of German merchant service detained in South Africa.
  • Exchange of British and German merchant seamen prisoners.
  • Max Klein and Ernst Glahn, two German merchant seamen prisoners, petition for their release.

Code 1250 Files 4559-12500.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

Files 4559-12500.

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Subjects
Topics
Refugees
Internment
International
Army
Asia
Religions
Europe and Russia
Navy
Middle East
Communications
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Africa
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