Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Letters and parcels for prisoners, including:...

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Letters and parcels for prisoners, including:

• Customs duty on parcels for prisoners.
• Correspondence of British and Austrian confinees and internees.
• Parcels and correspondence transmitted by United States Embassy for prisoners in Britain.
• Packets for British prisoners in Austria-Hungary.
• Delay in transmitting correspondence from British prisoners at Grossau and Raabs.
• Postal charges on correspondence of British prisoners at Raabs, and on letters and parcels forwarded to them.
• Free postage for enemy aliens not interned.
• Dr Hugo Schmidt, Austro-Hungarian subject in British Guiana: alleged restrictions on his correspondence.
• Faulty delivery of parcels for civilians in Austria-Hungary.
• Parcels for British civilians at Raabs.
• H G Russell, interned at Schloss Grossau near Raabs an der Thaya, Austria: non-receipt of parcels sent to him by the Civil Service Co-operative Society Ltd.
• Free postage for Austro-Hungarian civilians in India.
• List of British women interned in Austria.
• British civilians detained in Austria-Hungary.

Crew of the Austrian steamship Izrada, seized at Portland. Eduard Goth, Austrian subject, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, claims on behalf of crew for loss of property and wages. Crew repatriated, except for W Birkmann, second mate, a German reservist, and Johann Zandrich, who did not wish to return to Austria.

A A Baker & Co of Trieste, Austria-Hungary, wish to buy two hogsheads of Jamaica rum lying in the Government warehouses, Trieste, and belonging to C W Eves & Co Ltd of London; proposal that the money raised be paid into the British Relief Fund at Vienna. C W Eves & Co Ltd do not wish to dispose of the rum in that way.

Geoffrey Charles Claridge, British subject, civilian prisoner interned at Slackenwert; repatriation not granted because found fit for military service.

Mr and Mrs F Guttman, Austro-Hungarian subjects, interned at Garaison, France.

Edwin Clarke, British subject, confined at Kautzen, Austria.

Treatment by the French of Austro-Hungarian prisoners in Morocco, captured at Dahomey.

Treatment of Austro-Hungarian prisoners, including:

• Petitions from prisoners at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.
• Petitions from prisoners at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
• Imperial and Royal Ministry, Vienna (Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office) asks United States Embassy to investigate the treatment of prisoners in Australia.
• Complaints about the Sergeant Major at Stratford Camp, London.
• Prisoners in Newfoundland.
• Petition from prisoners at Malta.
• Petition from prisoners at Alexandra Palace, London.
• Prisoners in Ahmednagar Camp, India.
• Ludwig Leiner, Austro-Hungarian subject, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
• Arthur Hoffnung, Austro-Hungarian subject, interned at Alexandra Palace, London; question of allowance to his family referred to Local Government Board.
• Petitions from Stefan Czember, Charles Bossányi, A J Ueberer and John Bartha, Austro-Hungarian subjects, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man.

Code 1203 Files 7158-13817 (to paper 94999).

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