France: Prisoners, including: Treatment of prisoners native to Alsace and Lorraine....

France: Prisoners, including:

Treatment of prisoners native to Alsace and Lorraine.

Number of naval and military prisoners interned in Britain on 5 January 1916: 13,512.

Number of prisoners interned in France and its colonies on 14 December 1915: 85,896.

August Piepenbrink, German subject captured and then released by French: British expenses in transporting him from Jamaica to New York to be recovered from French Government.

Theodore Christ, German by birth but allegedly a naturalised British subject: his internment by the French.

British officers and men in hiding at St-Quentin, France, since August 1914.

Correspondence with persons in the occupied districts of France.

Transfer to France of prisoners from Alsace and Lorraine interned in Britain.

Miss Kathleen Sampson, children's nurse at Roubaix, France: her father James Sampson of Southampton enquires after her welfare.

21 combatant Poles interned at Feltham, Middlesex, wish to enlist in French Army.

Deportation by Germany of civilians in northern France; the Pope's protest against deportations from Lille, Tourcoing and Roubaix; reply given by Cardinal Hartmann, Archbishop of Cologne.

Guillaume Archer, civilian taken prisoner by Germans at Roubaix: his relations enquire after him; he is interned at Rethel, Ardennes, France.

Reverend Henry Fishe, Colonial & Continental Church Society's chaplain at Croix, near Lille; Society asks whether because of his poor health he, his wife and sister-in-law could be repatriated. German military authorities say he is too ill to travel.

Carl Rudo, a German subject, interned at Wolfenschiessen, Switzerland: he was formerly agent at Rabat, Morocco, of Messrs Browne, Rosenheim & Co of London, who want to know what he did with drafts and acceptances in his favour from Moorish subjects.

Harry Kohl, German prisoner interned at the Citadelle de l'Ile d'Yeu, France: claims to be naturalised British subject; holds first mate's certificate in the British Mercantile Marine; has good references. Foreign Office recommend French Government be informed of his case; they may wish to put him in a 'Camp de Faveur' (privilege camp).

Proposed agreement with France for mutual handing-over of prisoners who have escaped from one country to the other.

German stowaways on British steamship St Stephen; taken off at New York for deportation, but on intervention of German societies in New York released and admitted into United States.

French Consul-General at Calcutta asks British Secretary to the Government of India at Simla to provide him with Acts and Ordinances governing treatment of enemy aliens in India.

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