Germany: Prisoners, including: Relief for Germans in the former German South West...

FO 383/168

1916

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Relief for Germans in the former German South West Africa, including:

• Administration of relief.
• Trial of Oberleutnant Venuleth: report that HM Government do not propose to continue a discussion of legal points which the acquittal of the officer concerned has now rendered academic; proposal to publish the proceedings of the trial.
• Treatment of prisoners by German authorities in South West Africa: printed Report of Commission of Enquiry into the Treatment of Prisoners of War by the German Protectorate Authorities during the late Hostilities: Union of South Africa Defence Department, 1916.
• Agricultural Bank at Windhuk (Windhoek).
• Payments to German military and civil officials.
• Pay of German officers on parole in South West Africa.
• Suggested trial of certain German authorities in South West Africa for treatment of British prisoners: Army Council advice against such a course at present.
• Internment camps in South West Africa.
• Officer prisoner camp at Okanjande.
• Remittance of money to Germany.
• Relief for destitute private individuals.
• German Relief Committee at Cape Town: request for permission to send letter to Relief Committee at Berlin for Germans in British South Africa; granted.
• Behaviour of British troops in South West Africa.
• Usage of Dr Kastl's relief funds as loans.
• Redemption of Protectorate banknotes in South West Africa.
• Conduct of British troops at Luderitzbucht.
• German prisoners interned at Aus in South West Africa.
• Reports on camps in South West Africa.
• Communication for Dr Kastl at Windhuk (Windhoek).
• Former employees of Wireless Telegraph Station at Windhuk (Windhoek).
• Printed Papers relating to certain trials in German South West Africa (Cd ?, 1916).
• Expenditure of German funds in South West Africa.

Properties, including:

• Requisitioning of Villa Bayerle at Cairo, Egypt, by Red Cross.
• Sir Francis Oppenheimer's property at Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• Prince Münster's property at Maresfield, Sussex.

Proposed exchanges, including:

• Major Ponsonby Shaw, interned at Schloss Celle, and Baron Charles Herman von Leonhardi, late Captain 12th German Army Corps.
• Captain Ian Macdonald Henderson, wounded prisoner at Mainz.
• Elias Edward Bigwood.
• Dr Seitz, late Governor of German South West Africa, and Brigadier General Bruce.
• Prince Salm Salm, interned in Gibraltar, and Colonel W E Gordon, VC, Gordon Highlanders, interned in Germany, the latter critically ill: view that King of Spain should be discouraged from expecting Prince Salm Salm to return to Germany via Spain; he is to return via England and Holland.
• Major Ronald F Meiklejohn, interned at Mainz, and Lieutenant von Waldow: report that Army Council cannot accept the exchange, the German being fit and the Briton very incapacitated.
• Colonel Jackson, interned at Mainz.
• Honourable Doctor Henri S Béland, Canadian civilian prisoner interned in Germany: report that Army Council cannot agree to his exchange with combatant officers Baron G F A von Polenz or Rochus Baron von Luttwitz, interned in Canada.
• Walter Roman, British subject interned in Germany, and Alfred Hayn, German subject interned in the Isle of Man: partners in Hayn Roman & Co; exchange not agreed to by British Foreign Office.
• Lieutenant Commander Wieblitz, German officer late of the Dresden, interned in Chile.
• J B Balfour and Mr von Plessen.
• Captain Barry George, interned at Crefeld, and Lieutenant Maxim König, interned at Donington Hall, Leicestershire. report that War Office will not accept exchange; although König has lost his left arm, he is otherwise very fit and willing to fight again.
• Brigadier General Charles E Bradley, and Captain von Feilitzsch.
• Walter Butterworth, Hon Secretary of the Manchester Liberal Federation, interned at Ruhleben: German Government insistence he must be exchanged for an individual of importance, and refusal to repatriate him as an invalid.
• W S Cohn, interned in Ruhleben.

Code 1218 Files 629 (papers 95782-end)-885 (to paper 23051).

Files 629 (pp.95782-end)-885 (to pp.23051).

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