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Germany: Prisoners, including: Frederic (Fritz) Hermle: interned at Liverpool, New...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/191
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FO 383/191
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1916
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Frederic (Fritz) Hermle: interned at Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.
Albert Schlett, interned at Knockaloe Camp.
H Wohlers, German civilian interned at Knockaloe Camp: his objection to his son Henry Wohlers being enlisted into the British Army under the Military Service Act.
Clothing intended for the families of prisoners in the former German South West Africa.
Walter Böhmer, member of the German forces in South West Africa, sentenced to imprisonment for having shot two natives and wounded two others.
Mrs Gertrud Smith, resident in Jena, Germany, wife of Percy Stuart Smith, British subject: her request for a separation allowance.
Otto Reimers, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield: telegrams to be sent on his behalf.
Arrangements for repatriation of British and German civilians.
Dental treatment of prisoners in Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa.
Percy Darwent Jones, British subject interned at Ruhleben: payment of his arrears of rent at Darmstadt.
Danger of issuing Trades Union 'working cards' to potential German spies.
Alleged preferential treatment given by Germans to German-Russian prisoners over Russian prisoners.
Repatriation of British and German medical personnel.
Leonhard Kooyker, alleged British (South African) subject, interned in Germany, holder of 40 shares of Bantjes Consolidated Mines Ltd: proposed payment of his dividends.
Proposed exchange of Herr von Bülow: view that as he is a brother of the German ex-Chancellor he is a valuable pawn in British hands and should be held on to.
German Government advocate that fishermen interned in Britain should be instructed in their calling by interned sea captains using the Deutschen Seefischerei-Almanach; request that the ban on this book be lifted; agreed.
Doctor Richard Nolte, interned at Wakefield: question of his status and pay.
Korvetten-Kapitän A D Friedrich von Diedrichs, interned in Reading Gaol on suspicion of espionage.
Indian prisoners at Halbmond Camp, Zossen, Germany: enquiry into their alleged deaths.
Feeding and treatment of prisoners regulated by Fourth Hague Convention, 1907: reduction by Germans of rations at Ruhleben Camp; question of reprisals by British; proposals of Women's Imperial Defence Council and Prisoners of War Relief Agency.
Paul M Krebs, German subject interned at Alexandra Palace, London: compulsory winding up of firm of P M Krebs & Co Ltd.
Code 1218 Files 95798-101395.
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Files 95798-101395.
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