Germany: Prisoners, including: Parcels for Italian prisoners in Germany. Mr John...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Parcels for Italian prisoners in Germany.

Mr John Hind: enquiry regarding the delivery of parcels to his son, Corporal Arthur Cecil Hind, a prisoner in Germany.

Statement by the German Government on arrangements regarding the delivery of parcels to prisoners transferred from one camp to another.

Mrs M Harthaus: desire to return to England, following her repatriation to Germany in 1915.

Request by the German Government for an inventory of the contents of the Diakonissen (Deaconess) Hospital in Alexandria.

Confirmation by the German Government that consignments of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes for British prisoners in Germany were free of import duty.

Application by Antoine Nebeling, a German subject interned at the prisoner of war camp in Islington, for exemption from repatriation to Germany.

Mr H C Debus: enquiry regarding the estate of the late Professor Debus in Germany.

Agreement by the British Government to supply information to the German Government on the estate of Mr George Hader, in exchange for information regarding the estate of Professor Debus.

Mrs Helene Müller: decision not to allow her to return to the United Kingdom where her husband, Peter Müller, was interned at Knockaloe Camp on the Isle of Man.

Request by alleged members of the German sanitary personnel to be released from forced labour at the prisoner of war camp in Rouen.

Proposal for the Agricultural News to be sent to British prisoners in Germany.

Enquiry regarding German regulations on clothing to be worn by officers' orderlies in prisoner of war camps, following correspondence from Bombardier A E Fowler in Munden Camp in Germany.

Provision by the German Government of a list of names of the crew of Zeppelin L 21, shot down on 2 September 1916 near Potters Bar, following a request by the Reverend G N P Preston.

Enquiries into the alleged court martial in Germany of First Lieutenant Ronald Walker and Second Lieutenant C Smith of the Royal Flying Corps, on the charge of carrying explosive bullets. Confirmation by the German Government that no charges had been brought.

Mrs McGonigal: request for assistance in sending maintenance money due to her son in Germany.

Arrangements regarding the lease of Mr Drummond Hay's house at Oliva in Germany, with a list (in German) of its contents in store.

Clothing requirements for officers' orderlies at Bischofswerda Camp in Saxony. Includes a list of names of the orderlies.

Booklet, dated 1916, containing a reprint of an article (in German) from the Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift on the treatment of German prisoners in British prisoner of war camps. Includes an English translation of the article, and the report of an enquiry into the allegations of mistreatment contained in the article.

Mr E B Wiese: unsuccessful request for a certificate to prove his period of residency in England.

Treatment of escaped British prisoners by the British Consulate at Rotterdam.

Allegations by the German Government, with witness statements, of the mistreatment of women and children, brought by ship from Lome in German Togoland to England, for repatriation to Germany.

Franz Koerfer: request for his son, Franz Karl Koerfer, at present in care at the Catholic Mission in Nagalama, Uganda, to be allowed to join him in Germany.

Enquiries regarding the welfare of the crew and passengers of the SS Colchester, captured by German forces on 21 September 1916, including:

• A list of the officers and crew members.
• Copies of the birth certificates of Francis Wesley McClelland (in docket no. 201650) and Alfred John Carr (in docket no. 211651).

Transfer of the crew of various merchant ships from the camp at Ruhleben to the military camp at Brandenburg, including:

• Lists of merchant seamen from the SS Brussels, the SS Colchester, the SS Lestris and the SS Saxon Prince.
• Protest by the British Government to the German Government about the treatment of merchant seamen as military prisoners.

Lists of prisoners held at the Militargewahrsam and Stadtvogtei prisons in Berlin, with supplementary information.

Enquiry regarding the rights of Russian prisoners in Germany to send money to neutral countries in exchange for food.

Question of reciprocal agreements between Britain and Germany concerning the remittances of sums of money to repatriated enemy prisoners.

Permission for Kember & Co to send boots and shoes to prisoners in Germany and Turkey.

Permission for William Gossage and Sons to send a supply of soap to Rifleman James Watt at Kroppelshagen Camp.

Memorandum by the Foreign Claims Office on the entitlement of prisoners to make claims for compensation from the German Government.

Memorandum on opportunities given to enemy subjects to leave the United Kingdom at the outbreak of war.

Sergeant F O Bowman: request for books and clothing to be sent to him at the prisoner of war camp at Hameln.

Reciprocal arrangements between the British and German Governments regarding the despatch of clothing and footwear to prisoners.

Arrangements for the temporary release of prisoners from internment for leave of absence or other reasons.

Code 1218 Files 181039-192311.

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