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Balkans: Prisoners, including: Arrests of consular staff and suspected agents, including:...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/128

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FO 383/128

Date

1916

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Balkans: Prisoners, including:

Arrests of consular staff and suspected agents, including:

  • Adolfo Badetti and Emilio Badetti, hide merchants and Italian subjects, arrested at Chios, Greece: interned at Alexandra Palace, London; consular report on Emilio Badetti.
  • Major O'Connor, HM Consul, Shiraz, Persia (Iran): his reported death.
  • Arrests at Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece.
  • Proposed exchange of Austrian Consul at Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece, for Italian Consul at Antivari (Bar), Macedonia.
  • Arrest of Austrians at Chios, Greece, and Mitylene (Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece).
  • Dimitri Antovich arrested at Chios, interned at Alexandra Palace, London.
  • Francis Brazzafolli, Austro-Hungarian Consul at Chios, interned at Alexandra Palace, London.
  • Alfred Grohmann and Seefelder, Austrian subjects, interned at Ras el Tin, near Cairo, Egypt.
  • Talaat Bey, Greek subject, arrested at Mitylene (Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece).
  • Recall of the Prefects of Samos and Florina, Greece, and removal of certain suspects from Samos.
  • Reports on suspects arrested at Chios: Badetti father and son; Doctor Otto Ornstein, German Consul; Theodore Ornstein; Brazzafolli, Austrian Consul; Dimitri Antovich; John Vlahopoulos; Mustapha Sefket.
  • Benjamin Melamed and Janco Weinberg, Romanian subjects, arrested at Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece, and interned at Alexandria, Egypt.
  • John Petonsis, Greek subject, interned at Mudros (Moudros), Limnos, Greece.
  • Kaczwinsky and Kaufried, Austrian subjects, interned at Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Persons arrested at Salonica (Thessaloniki), Greece, and interned at Alexandria, Egypt: with list of names, with ages and nationalities (in docket no.64682).
  • Arrest of suspects at Corfu, Greece: list of names (in French) with nationalities, professions and reasons for arrest (in docket no.78351).

Code 1219 File 1647 (papers 36861-79140).

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File 1647 (pp.36861-79140).

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Internment
International
Trade and commerce
Europe and Russia
Nationality
Middle East
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