America: Prisoners, including: Dr Alvarez, Jurisconsult to the Chilean Foreign Office:...

FO 383/111

1915

America: Prisoners, including:

Dr Alvarez, Jurisconsult to the Chilean Foreign Office: questioned and searched at Folkestone.

Hermann Gaih, a Brazilian subject and merchant: plea to be released from detention refused as he was a German soldier of German origin.

James T Macey, an American citizen: arrest and detention at Plymouth.

Harry Brolaski, an American citizen and ex-swindler: offers services to British Consul-General, San Francisco, to spy on former associates who are spying for Germany in London.

Charles Stephenson Smith, an American correspondent of the Associated Press: arrested and incarcerated as an alien in West Hartlepool, Durham, following the German bombardment there; complains about his treatment.

Albert Doerken and Filippe Kahnn, Brazilian subjects: both arrested at Gibraltar.

Hans Bjorn Graesse, a German subject: convicted of failing to register as an enemy alien; claims to be Uruguayan Vice-Consul at Folkestone.

George Russ, German-born naturalised American: deported from Bombay as suspected German agent.

Baron von Nettelbladt: to remain in detention.

Leslie Leon, a German-American Jew: British Embassy in Washington reports that Congressmen are to endorse him for a post in the American Secret Service in England or France; his sentiments strongly anti-British; implicated in 'Becker case'. Warning sent to American Secretary of State.

Fritz Lincke, a German married to an Austrian subject: employed by the American Consulate in Liverpool.

Charles and Henry Behrens, prisoners: arrested in Manchester as German subjects, but had not lost their Venezuelan nationality; subsequently released.

Hugo Scherer of London: claims to have acquired Mexican nationality, but is registered in the German Consulate at Mexico as a German subject.

Ivan and Miguel Senior, Venezuelan subjects: seek permission to travel to Germany via Holland.

Elie Laniado, who claims to be an Egyptian: wishes to travel from Rio de Janiero, Brazil, to Liverpool on a British ship; is alleged to be a Turco-German agent; permission refused.

Oscar Teichmann and Carlos Miranda, arrested at Gibraltar and detained at Ryde, Isle of Wight: proved to be Brazilian subjects, and so released.

Pablo (alias Paul) Mitrovitch, of Hampstead, London, partner and director of Mitrovitch Brothers, importers and exporters, a recently naturalised Chilean subject of Austro-Serb origin, seeks permission for his wife, an Austrian, to come to London with his children. Because of view adopted in other cases, not possible to recognise the naturalisation by a neutral country of resident enemy aliens during the war. But Mr Mitrovitch granted exemption from internment and his wife and children exempted from repatriation and deportation.

Percy Gordon Macdonnell, editor of pro-German Manila daily newspaper The Cablenews American, embarks on a visit to European countries.

Anthony I Brogan, late editor of anti-British newspaper The Irish-American, journeys to Berlin ostensibly as a salesman.

Carlos Bichoff, interned at Gibraltar: claims to be Chilean subject, but Chilean Legation say he has failed effectively to establish his Chilean nationality.

Johann Julius Fuchs of Highbury, London: regulations concerning landing in England of naturalised British subjects of German origin.

Carolyn Anne Wilson, Paris Correspondent of The Chicago Tribune: seeks dispensation from customs search when leaving for Boulogne; refused.

Carlos Forestier, interned at Ryde, Isle of Wight: claims to be Chilean subject, but Chilean legation say he has failed effectively to establish his Chilean nationality.

Ernst Henry Bornemann: interned at detention camp at Newbury, Berkshire, and released. Claims wrongful detention as a native American citizen.

Mrs Mildred Ada Mummelchey, née Burrow, wife of German clergyman Walter Mummelchey of Blumenau, seeks permission to return from Brazil to England to live with relatives and seek divorce. In the circumstances, permission granted.

Manoel João Reis, Francisco Alberto Kruss and Armin Eugen Swetsch, all alleged Brazilian subjects detained at Gibraltar: photographs of last two men sent to Brazil for identification.

Code 1245 Files 1027-53353.

Files 1027-53353.

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