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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Care of prisoners by the Spanish and...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/109

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This record is about the Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Care of prisoners by the Spanish and... dating from 1915 in the series Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference

FO 383/109

Date

1915

Description

Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including:

Care of prisoners by the Spanish and American Embassies.

Detention of Red Cross Personnel.

Pay of officer prisoners.

Wages of Kroo boys [Liberian negroes skilled as seamen] employed on German boats of the Woermann Line at the time of their capture by British forces.

Permission sought for Chinese seamen (British subjects from Hong Kong) to come to United Kingdom from Lisbon.

Money and securities of enemy aliens leaving the United Kingdom.

Guillaume Volk: German spy with information about the British troops at Le Havre.

Request for Austro-Hungarian subjects of Serbian origin to be released from British internment camps.

Request for Austrian and German missionaries to be transferred from Camp A to Camp C at Ahmednagar, India.

Alleged ill-treatment of prisoners in Turkey and Germany.

Letters to United States consular and diplomatic officers in enemy countries.

Superioress General of Notre Dame des Missions at Deal, Kent, requests permission for herself and two Sisters to visit India, Australia and New Zealand.

Payment of municipal rates on Embassy buildings.

A German and an Austrian officer escape from internment in Britain as stowaways to Denmark.

Exchange of wounded prisoners between French and German governments.

August Schmidt, prisoner at Knockaloe Camp, Peel, Isle of Man, wounded by rifle shot fired by a deranged warder.

Messrs Iggberg (a Swede) and Herolein (an American) of the Western Electric Company, Woolwich, London: police report on them.

Aliens removed from ships by naval authorities.

Armand Uehlinger (a Swiss), former director of Volkart Brothers of Winterthur, Switzerland, seeks permission to travel to India.

Code 1250 Files 51445-98039.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

Files 51445-98039.

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Subjects
Topics
Internment
International
Asia
Europe and Russia
Pay and pensions
Weapons
Australia and Pacific
Race relations
Nationality
Navy
Americas
Middle East
Banking
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
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