Turkey. Prisoners, including: Transfer of British and Jewish refugees from Crete...

Turkey. Prisoners, including:

Transfer of British and Jewish refugees from Crete to Cyprus; attempts to secure the use of a British or American ship to transport them.

Repatriation of Mr Abraham Rosenthal from Crete to Cyprus.

Proposed exchange of British and Turkish military prisoners.

Mr John Michael Agelasto: arrangements for sending financial assistance to his son, Mr Michael John Agelasto, in Constantinople. A copy of Mr Michael John Agelasto's birth certificate is in docket no.12314.

Payments to the Reverend William A Wigram in Constantinople.

Mr K Eskerdjian: request for permission to execute a power of attorney for transmission to his brother in Constantinople.

Relief payments to former employees of the Smyrna-Aidin Railway Company.

Authorisation for the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company to pay an annuity to Miss Clara B A Alt in Constantinople.

Mr John C Gaskin, formerly attached to the British Consulate at Baghdad: internment in Turkey, and negotiations regarding his release.

Enquiries about the whereabouts and welfare of Mr and Mrs Cree and their family, and Lieutenant Commander C H Cowley.

Rifleman A Borrell: information that he had been declared a deserter, and subsequent discontinuation of the payment of a separation allowance to his wife in Smyrna.

Request for financial assistance from the Alliance Israélite school in Aleppo.

Colonel Subhi Bey, former Governor of Basra, including:

• Request by the Turkish authorities for information about him.
• Increase of his allowance.
• Death of Colonel Bey in Thayetmyo Camp, India.
• Expression of thanks from the Turkish prisoners at Thayetmyo in connection with the funeral arrangements for Colonel Bey.

Payment of a maintenance allowance to H Basri Bey, former Acting Consul General for Turkey, while interned at Bombay.

Messrs Kinch and Richardson, Solicitors: transmission of a letter enclosing a power of attorney to Mr Frank K Ballard at Smyrna.

Mr Martin Considine: enquiry into the causes of his death at Smyrna, in connection with a claim for compensation from his widow.

Agreement by the Turkish authorities for the reciprocal inspection of prisoner of war camps by representatives of a neutral country; transmission of this information to the French and Russian governments.

Request for representatives of the Australian Red Cross to visit Australian prisoners in Turkish camps.

Protection of the graves of soldiers in the Gallipoli peninsula, including:

• Enquiries from the Australian Government and the War Office.
• Proposal by Mr W A Horn, Director of the Bank of Adelaide, for Australian trees and shrubs to be planted near the graves of Australian soldiers.
• Statement by the Turkish Government that all unburied British and French troops in Gallipoli had now been buried outside the lines of defence, but that access to Gallipoli was prohibited.
• Suggestion for the American Embassy in Constantinople to contact the Turkish authorities about an inspection of the graves by a British or American representative.
• Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society: enquiry about the exhumation of the bodies of soldiers buried with their identification discs.
• Notification that the Vatican held two photographs of British and French graves at Gallipoli; provision of copies of the photographs by the Vatican.
• Parliamentary question by Mr Malcolm on information held by the Vatican on the state of British graves in Gallipoli.
• John Henry Bernard, Archbishop of Dublin: request for a photograph of the grave of his son, Lieutenant R Bernard of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who died at Sedd-el-Bahr.
• Miss G E Rutherford: request for a photograph of the grave of her nephew, Captain A F C Rutherford.

Code 1244 Files 6613-12753.

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