Russia and Scandinavia: Prisoners RUSSIA: Relief payments for British staff of J...

Russia and Scandinavia: Prisoners

RUSSIA:

Relief payments for British staff of J J Saville and Co Ltd employed at the steel works in Libau; arrangements for the payment of £75 per month to Mr M Kulkes, manager of the works; grant of power of attorney to Mr Kulkes.

Establishment of a Prisoners of War Department in the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Reverend M Cohen: authorisation for him to send quarterly remittances to his sister in Slonim.

Benjamin Silver: permission for him to send money to Mrs Gitel Laja Eppelbing in Lodz, Poland.

Treatment of German prisoners in Russia, including:

• Intercepted despatch on condition in Troitsk prison camp.
• Printed copy of a (French language) report by the International Committee of the Red Cross on inspection visits to Russian prison camps (in docket no.82829).
• Translation of an article from a Swedish newspaper on conditions in Russian prison camps.

Mrs Mary Kaplan at Vilna: attempts by her husband to send money to her via the Standard Bank of South Africa and Messrs L Delow and Co; information from the American Embassy in Berlin that her address could not be traced.

Mr L Hill: permission for him to send remittances from South Africa to his wife in Libau.

Mrs Emma Levien: enquiries about the issue of a permit to allow her to travel from Russia to Southern Rhodesia.

Mr A B Hunter: enquiries about procedures for the transmission of correspondence to his daughter in law, Mrs Race Hunter, in Lodz.

Mr V A Aprahame: request for assistance in obtaining the release of his uncle, Garabed Sarafian, being held as a prisoner in Siberia.

Mr J Rosenbaum of Johannesburg, South Africa: request for permission to send money to his mother, Mrs R Rosenbaum, in Poland.

Removal of prisoners from Romanov, where they were employed by the Murman Railway Company.

Remittance of the sum of £4 to Alfred Kurth, a prisoner being held near Vladivostock in Siberia.

SCANDINAVIA:

Mr A H Kullberg: request by his wife, Mrs Catherine Kullberg, for Mr Kullberg, currently detained at Dalston in Cumbria, to be allowed to travel to Norway or Denmark.

Christian Peter Hansen Elley: enquiries regarding his detention in Liverpool.

British naval prisoners interned in Norway, including:

• Escape of two British sailors from the internment camp at Jorstadmoen near Lillehammer.
• Treatment of officers and crew of HMS India interned at Jorstadmoen.
• Parliamentary question by Mr Barnes MP concerning conditions at Jorstadmoen.
• Policy on prisoners escaping from internment camps in Norway.
• Complaints by prisoners regarding food and conditions in Jorstadmoen Camp.

Frederick William Smith, an interned seaman from the British submarine E.13: permission for him to be employed in the British legation at Copenhagen.

Peter Gleerup, interned in the UK: request by the Danish authorities for a written explanation of the circumstances which led to his internment; permission by the British Government for Mr Gleerup to be interviewed by the Danish authorities; information that Mr Gleerup had confessed to being a member of the German Secret Service.

Grant of leave of absence to various officers and crew from the HMS India, interned in Norway, for the purpose of visiting their sick wives or relations, including:

• Seaman E Penton: grant of one month's leave of absence and subsequent grant of two additional months leave.
• Leading Seaman Ware: grant of one month's leave of absence, and subsequent grant of an additional month.
• Leading Seaman White: grant of one month's leave of absence.
• Storekeeper Dunn: grant of one month's leave of absence.
• Petty Officer Hines: grant of one month's leave of absence.
• Lieutenant Patmore: grant of six weeks leave of absence.
• Midshipman Jenkins: grant of one week's leave of absence.

Home addresses of eight crew members of HMS India.

Policy issues relating to the granting of leave to the interned officers and crew of HMS India.

Request by the Admiralty Intelligence Division for confirmation of a report that the crew of the German Auxiliary Cruiser Berlin, interned at Trondheim, had been allowed four months leave in Germany.

Code 1238, code 1230 Russia: Files 12936-258949 (complete). Scandinavia: Files 20140-255142 (complete).

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