Switzerland and Turkey: Prisoners, including: SWITZERLAND: Request by the Army Council...

Switzerland and Turkey: Prisoners, including:

SWITZERLAND:

Request by the Army Council for a monthly statement showing the number of British and German prisoners interned in Switzerland.

Arrangements for meeting the spiritual needs of the various religious denominations of interned prisoners; requirement for army chaplains.

Use of the Berne Legation by the German Government for conveying decisions regarding policy on prisoners.

Necessity for restricting the amounts of money sent to non-commissioned officers and other ranks.

Lieutenant Denis C W Sanders: permission for him to sit the final examination of the Surveyors' Institution while interned in Switzerland.

Arrangements for the transfer to Switzerland of the personal effects of German prisoners previously interned in the United Kingdom.

Withdrawal by the Swiss authorities of free postage for interned prisoners.

Request by the Russian authorities for depositions to be taken from Lieutenant Ward and Lieutenant John Joseph Russel on the treatment of Russian officers held prisoner in Germany.

Proposal for the establishment of a special camp for prisoners indulging in alcohol abuse; concern expressed by the War Office.

Interrogation by the Swiss authorities of Allied prisoners: proposal for a representative of the Allied Government concerned to be present.

Letter from Colonel M Earle, commander of the British prisoners at Chateau d'Oex, about the provision of training for the prisoners to equip them with a trade at the end of the war.

Removal by the German authorities of food supplies from prisoners before their transfer to Switzerland.

TURKEY:

Financial arrangements for British prisoners in Turkey, including:

• Remittances for prisoners, including two lists showing the names and addresses of the senders and prisoners (in docket no.464).
• Request by Mrs Gertrude Barker for payment to be made to her in Smyrna of dividends due from the Aidin Railway Company.
• Repayment by Lieutenant Sir Robert Baronet, Lieutenant Clyfford Warren and Lieutenant Arthur Tebbs of money advanced to them from the British Government Relief Funds.
• John Pappi: permission for him to send money from England to his mother and sister in Constantinople.
• Miss K Vafea: arrangements for the transfer of money to her in Smyrna.
• Query from the American Ambassador at Constantinople about sums of money which he had been unable to deliver to certain prisoners.
• Miss Pauline Blunt: permission for the American Consul-General at Smyrna to pay her pension at six monthly intervals.
• Transmission of remittances to prisoners by international money orders instead of using the Red Cross or the Red Crescent.
• Miss Hester Campbell: request for a payment to be made on her behalf to Mrs Forder in Jerusalem.
• Request by the Government of Johore for payments to be made to six students from Johore in Beirut; agreement for funds to be sent direct from Singapore.
• Remittances for prisoners in Turkey, including lists showing the names and addresses of the senders and the prisoners (in docket no.31213).
• Edward Jackson: permission for him to send a remittance to his brother, Thomas Jackson, in Constantinople.
• Policy on the sending of remittances to Armenian nationals in Turkey.
• Transmission of money to British prisoners interned at Menahma in the Yemen.
• Remittances for prisoners in Turkey, including lists showing the names and addresses of the senders and the prisoners (in docket nos.40280 and 53126).
• Mr E Eldridge: request for permission to send money to Smyrna.
• Arrangements for sending funds to agents of the Church of Scotland Jewish Mission Committee in Smyrna, including a printed Report by the Committee for the Conversion of the Jews, dated 21 May 1915.
• Payment to Dervish Nihat Effendi, a Cypriot national.
• Morris Jacobson: request for permission to send money to relatives in Turkey.
• Payments by Borax Consolidated Ltd to George Vitalis in Constantinople, for the upkeep of mines in Turkey.
• Questions regarding the remittance of funds for the support of a dispensary founded by Edward Stern in Damascus; approval for the remittance of funds subject to certain conditions; unwillingness of Mr Stern to agree to these conditions.
• Miss Flora Sasson: request for a payment to be made to Rabbi Isaac Aghasee in Jeruslaem.
• Mr J Papazian, resident in Constantinople: arrangements for the transfer of funds from London.
• Hoffman Philip: proposal for a revised system of payments to British prisoners in Turkey.
• Captain A I Dawes, a prisoner at Afion Kara Hissar: request for funds; enquiry following the non-receipt of a cheque by Captain Dawes.
• Draft press notice on the method of sending remittances to prisoners in Turkey; procedures for checking details of paid orders received by the Swiss Post Office.
• Arrangements for payments for distribution among groups of British prisoners.
• Payment by the American Embassy at Constantinople of the sum of £50 to the Economic Cooperative Society Limited of Constantinople, in respect of cheques drawn by Lieutenants E J Price, G Haggard and Sir Robert Paul.
• Remittances from Egypt to British prisoners in Turkey.
• Mrs Emily Leete: repayment of money to the Western Assurance Company.
• Captain Yeats-Brown, Captain Atkins, Lieutenant Fulton and Major Reilly: payments to them from British Relief Funds.
• Carlisle Citizens' League: request for financial support for soldiers from the 1/4 and 2/4 Border Regiments interned in Turkey.
• Arrangements for the Red Cross Society to send funds to British prisoners in Kut.
• Messrs Cox, Ritchie and Co: decision not to send money to Mr Gatheral in Constantinople.
• Payments to Lieutenants Walter Chamberlain and John Marsh of the Worcestershire Yeomanry, interned at Angora, Turkey.

Code 1243, code 1244 Switzerland: Files 208007-263773. Turkey: File 464 (to pp 127079).

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