Turkey and Greece: Prisoners, including: Financial arrangements for British prisoners...

FO 383/221

1916

Turkey and Greece: Prisoners, including:

Financial arrangements for British prisoners in Turkey, including:

• Loans to British subjects with capital resources.
• Greece: arrangements for the relief and repatriation of refugees, including lists of British prisoners interned in Greece who had received advances from the British Consulate in Athens (in docket no.4184), and a list of addresses of British nationals who had not repaid their advances (in docket no.4185).
• Supplies for Australian prisoners in Turkey.
• Pay and supplies for British prisoners in Turkey.
• Payment of £20 from Malta funds to Father Mamos for relief work in Athens.
• Relief for British prisoners in Baghdad.
• Provision of relief at Smyrna.
• Relief for New Zealand prisoners in Turkey.
• Loans to needy British subjects with unavailable capital resources in Constantinople.
• Relief for British prisoners at Kiangri.
• Inadequacy of rates of relief for Turkish refugees in Athens.
• Provision of clothing for British prisoners in Turkey.
• Advances by the American Government for the relief of British prisoners in Turkey; repayment to the American Government of advances for prisoner relief.
• Relief for Australian prisoners in Turkey; contribution from the Citizens' War Chest in Sydney.
• Funds for the relief of Cypriots in Turkey; request for an increase in expenditure on relief for Cypriot refugees in Smyrna.
• Relief for Indian prisoners at Afion Kara Hissar.
• Relief for British subjects in the Ottoman Empire.
• Provision of cricket equipment for British prisoners at Belmedik; grant of a licence to the American Express Company.
• Delay in the payment of relief to Australian prisoners at Kangari, with a list of all Australian prisoners held in turkey (in docket no.84189).
• Sending of pipes and tobacco in American Embassy bags for British prisoners in Turkey.
• Funds for Australian and New Zealand prisoners; provision of extra relief for sick and wounded Australian prisoners; increase of allowances for New Zealand prisoners; expression of thanks from the Australian Government to the American authorities for their assistance.
• Effect of depreciation of Turkish paper currency on relief payments.
• Provision of additional relief for British prisoners at Smyrna.
• Provision of extra relief for British prisoners from the garrison at Kut; inter-departmental meeting to coordinate relief efforts; proposal for the establishment of a neutral agency to secure delivery of supplies; queries about the distribution of funds to the prisoners.
• Queries regarding rates of pay for British officer prisoners.
• Hagop Rafael, interned as a British subject at Tchoroum: request for financial assistance; subsequent inability of the police authorities to trace him.
• Issue of relief to Mrs Tahmisian, interned at Nigdeh; information that she would not be allowed to return to the United Kingdom by the Turkish authorities.
• Relief for members of the Dorsetshire Regiment captured at Kut.
• Enquiry from the Prisoners of War Help Committee about arrangements for sending sports equipment to prisoners in Turkey; proposal for the American Express Company to undertake the delivery of packages over eleven pounds in weight to prisoners in Turkey and Bulgaria; sample label to be used by the company for free transit of consignments through France.
• Expenditure of funds for the benefit of British prisoners of other ranks in Turkey.
• Pay of British officer prisoners in Turkey, with a list of names of those to whom payments had been made by the American Embassy (in docket no.167219).
• Mr J Schembri, a British prisoner interned at Nev Shehir: arrangements for the repayment of a loan in respect of clothing.
• Payment of relief money to the wives of former employees of the British Consulate at Baghdad and employees of the Lynch Company in Baghdad.
• Correspondence from the British Red Crescent Society about the need for immediate relief for British and Indian prisoners in Turkey.
• Agreement by the Ottoman Government for clothing and other supplies for British prisoners to be landed from a neutral ship at the port of Mersina; suggestion that Mr W H Buckler of the American Embassy should be involved in the distribution of supplies.
• Captain G M James: request for advice on sending medical supplies to his son, Captain C E M Jones, interned in Turkey.
• Messrs Stenhouse Limited: advice from the Foreign Office against sending a consignment of port and brandy to Captain F J O Brickman, a British prisoner interned at Castamouni.
• Enquiry from the Office of the High Commissioner of New Zealand about the welfare of certain New Zealand prisoners in Turkey, with a list of additional names of prisoners from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (in docket no.182384).
• Minutes and agenda of a Conference of an Interdepartmental Committee on Relief Measures for Prisoners of War from Kut, held at the India Office on 8 September 1916.
• Major A J Anderson, a prisoner at Castamouni: enquiry about his welfare.
• Enquiry about payments to New Zealand prisoners in Turkey.
• Provision of clothing for British prisoners at Castamouni.

Code 1244, code 1219 File 599 (to paper 195711).

File 599 (to pp.195711).

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