Germany: Prisoners, including: Conditions for British civilian prisoners in Germany,...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Conditions for British civilian prisoners in Germany, including:

• Conditions and food supply at Ruhleben.
• Despatch of parcels to prisoners at Ruhleben and elsewhere in Germany..
• Press cuttings from 'The Morning Post', May-June 1916: James W Gerard, United States Ambassador at Berlin, refutes allegation by Charles J King, ex-prisoner at Ruhleben, that United States Embassy staff were never present in the Ruhleben kitchen during the serving of a meal.
• Civilians at Ruhleben and other camps.
• Conditions at Dr Weiler's Sanatorium at Ruhleben.
• Thomas G Gooding, British prisoner released from Ruhleben as militarily unfit: claims that bad diet at Ruhleben contributed to his nervous breakdown; requests interview with Foreign Office.
• 'Miscellaneous No 20 (1916). Further Correspondence respecting the Conditions of Diet and Nutrition in the Internment Camp at Ruhleben. In continuation of Miscellaneous No 18 (1916): Cd 8259.'
• Israel Cohen, Jewish British subject formerly interned at Ruhleben: his memorandum on conditions at Ruhleben Camp.
• Comparison of rations at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, and Ruhleben Camp, Germany.
• Commandants at Ruhleben Camp.
• Two British civilian prisoners in Berlin receiving no food parcels: Jacques O'Connor at Militärgewahrsam, and John Halpin at Stadtvogtei.
• Proposed exchange of prisoners at Ruhleben and elsewhere.
• Emil Otto Winzerling, British subject interned at Ruhleben, asks whether letters from his relations in British Honduras are being detained in England; none have been detained by British censor.
• Heating arrangements at Ruhleben.

Code 1218 File 54 (papers 104413-150211).

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