Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Charles H Kelley, British subject, drowned...

FO 383/124

1916

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Charles H Kelley, British subject, drowned in the River Danube at Vienna: his wife applies for the proceeds of his estate to be sent to her in Putney, London SW.

Miss S A Naftel, of Vienna: Captain E R C Cooke, attached 2nd Scottish Rifles, enquires after her welfare.

Internment of unnaturalised unmarried Austrian subjects in New Zealand.

Hugh W Davidson, of Vienna, not interned: request from his brother, William Davidson of Cambuslang, Glasgow, for permission to send him supplies of food; permission not granted for uninterned people to receive supplies of food from outside sources.

Soliman Abdin, an Egyptian residing in Vienna, claims to be a British subject and applies for relief from British funds: application refused pending advice from Cairo.

Miss Anna Mary Clouting, British subject resident in Vienna: Austro-Hungarian Imperial Royal Department of Commerce grants her appeal to keep her hotel licence.

Henry G Russell, British subject, interned at Grossau then at Drosendorf, Austria: enquiries and investigations into his health, with a view to his repatriation.

Michael Kaufmann, British subject resident in Vienna, one time correspondent of the 'Near East' at Belgrade: his daughter Miss A Kaufmann of county Durham enquires after his welfare; question of remittance of money owed him by newspapers.

Janos Langasz, Hungarian subject interned at Gibraltar, who died there: transmission of his effects to Hungary.

Christmas gifts for British and French civilian prisoners in Austria.

Penalties inflicted on prisoners who attempt to escape, or who escape and are recaptured.

Austro-Hungarian subjects of Romanian origin who are interned in Britain.

Miss Ada Frances Parkinson, British subject, calls at Foreign Office seeking return of original passport held by United States Embassy at Vienna: she gives report on conditions in Vienna and Berlin. States that the United States Embassy has a list of 32 British women anxious to leave Vienna but who are still awaiting permission to do so.

James Ansell, British subject, butler of Countess de Gasquet-James in Ponovic Castle near Littai (Litija), Carniola, Austria-Hungary: his death, having been allowed to be 'interned' in the castle because of his poor health.

Alfred Horwitz and his 5 brothers Leopold, Henry, George, Richard and Walter (sons of Alexander Horwitz), British subjects, claim exemption from military service in Austria-Hungary.

Josef Rohacs of Brandford, Ontario, Canada, and George Poczek of Fall View, Ontario, both Hungarian subjects: punishment for subscribing to Hungarian War Loans.

Wenzel Fingoust, Austro-Hungarian subject, interned at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia: complains of his treatment.

British seamen (several names given) interned in Austria: enquiries made as to their welfare.

Miss Lillie Lowe, British subject residing in Vienna: her father Robert Lowe urgently requires her return to England.

Bernard George Rice, British subject, interned at Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, asks for employment as an art teacher in Britain after the war.

John W Brown, British subject, interned at Raabs an der Thaya, Austria: his valuable educational work for other internees.

Louis Rottenburg, alleged British subject, interned at Raabs an der Thaya, applies for relief as Class A internee. Canadian Government to advise on his father's naturalisation in Canada and to say whether they wish for relief to be given and whether they will reimburse British Relief Fund.

Proposed mutual agreement between Britain and Austria-Hungary to send civilian invalid prisoners for hospitalisation in Switzerland.

Mrs Lilian Stern, Austrian subject residing at Bournemouth, Hampshire, England: the Bureau International Feministe de Renseignements en faveur des victimes de la Guerre, of Lausanne, Switzerland, ask that she be given relief; but United States Embassy in London advise that she has been receiving regular weekly relief from the United States Embassy for a considerable time.

Mr Percy Waugh, British subject: his wife at Budapest enquires about his welfare and whereabouts, and requests funds as she has received none from him for over a year. Mr Waugh, c/o I D Arthur, 177 Queen Victoria Street, London, is written to by the Prisoners of War Department and is advised to apply to the Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury for permission to send funds, and to state the reasons preventing Mrs Waugh from returning to Britain.

M Yelitsch, Austrian subject, interned at Belgaum Camp, Bombay, India: claims all his property at Nairobi was taken over by the Government of British East Africa, and demands compensation.

Franklyn Lloyd, British subject, formerly residing in Trieste, lately in Graz, both Austro-Hungarian Empire: his death in Graz; his immediate family wish for other relatives to be informed.

Dental treatment of prisoners.

Mrs Clara Grohmann, wife of Alfred Grohmann, Austrian subject interned at Alexandra Palace, London. Her imprisonment in Marseille, France, on charges of espionage.

Franz Stross, Austrian subject, interned at Wakefield Camp, Yorkshire. H G Chancellor MP, appeals for his release and sending to Switzerland if bound by a money guarantee.

Miss Ivy Browne, non-interned British subject resident at Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire. She has not been allowed to return to England but needs money or parcels. Only Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury can authorise the sending of these to her as she is not interned.

Paul Stoffer, Hungarian subject interned at Alexandra Palace, London, claims treatment as an officer.

Code 1203 Files 184192-264311.

Files 184192-264311.

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