Turkey. Prisoners, including: Arrest of Mr James Catheral and other British subjects...

Turkey. Prisoners, including:

Arrest of Mr James Catheral and other British subjects in Constantinople, including:

• Request by the British Government for the names of those arrested and the reasons for the arrests.
• Information that the arrests were a reprisal for the arrest of Turkish subjects at Mitylene, and names of the eight British subjects arrested (in docket no. 140417).
• Proposal for the release of the Turkish subjects arrested at Mitylene.
• Report of the release of four of the British subjects held in Constantinople.
• Message from Mrs Catheral and her family to Mrs Blair in Edinburgh.
• Request for Mr William Blair to pay the premium on Mr Catheral's life insurance policy.
• Message from Mrs Blair to Mrs Catheral and her family in Constantinople.
• Request by the Turkish Government for information on the whereabouts of the four Turkish subjects from Mitylene following their release.
• Report from the War Office that none of the Turkish subjects arrested at Mitylene had yet been released, and were still detained in Egypt.
• Request by the Turkish Government for the release of Hadji Seid Effendi, Secretary of the Cheri Court at Mitylene, interned at Alexandria.
• List of names of the Turkish subjects arrested at Mitylene (in docket no.123698).
• Mrs G Delamain: enquiry about the welfare and whereabouts of General Delamain of the Kut garrison.
• Sir Louis Mallett: enquiry about the safety of possessions left by him at the former British Embassy building in Constantinople; report by the American Embassy in Constantinople on the condition of his possessions.
• Mundji Fikri Bey, former Turkish Consul General in London: request for his personal belongings to be sent to Amsterdam.
• Mrs E A Finn, Secretary of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Jews: request for assistance in obtaining the title-deeds of a property near Jerusalem known as 'Abraham's Vineyard' belonging to the society.

The Reverend J Alston Campbell: request for the transmission of a letter to a Danish employee of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Constantinople, in connection with his furniture and personal effects.

Instructions to the Government of India regarding the military age limits for the internment of Turkish subjects.

Antonio Debeglia, former employee of the British Embassy at Constantinople: payment of his yearly allowance.

Report of the death of Mr Richard Marshall, Chief Officer of the SS Assiout at the British Seamen's Hospital in Constantinople.

Mr Charles J Vopicka of the American Legation in Bucharest: request for a remittance to be sent to Aziz Hassan Hamza Turacanli, interned at Basra.

Intercepted despatch from the Turkish Government about the alleged death of Turkish prisoners on a train in Siberia.

Deportation of Allied civilians from Samsoun to Sivas.

Mrs A J Lyster, resident in Constantinople: enquiries about her husband, Mr Alfred Lyster, of the Imperial Ottoman Bank in London; arrangements by Mr Lyster to send money to his wife in Constantinople.

Mr Arthur Baker of the British Refugees from Turkey Fund: telegrams to Constantinople, including:

• Authorisation for telegrams to be sent via the American Embassy in Constantinople.
• Despatch of a telegram regarding Major Carlisle RFA.
• Transfer of the deeds of Mr Baker's house.
• Telegram concerning Major Nelson and Captain Dinwiddie interned at Yozgad.
• Request by Mrs Mary Baker in Constantinople for news of her daughter, Mrs Allen Ramsay, resident in Streatham, London; message from Mrs Ramsey to her mother.
• Request for payment of remittances to British prisoners in Turkey, with details of their names (in docket nos.171231 and 182749).
• Information about the receipt of a letter from Second Lieutenants R S Lacy and W W A Phileps (or Philips), and Lieutenant G H C Burroughes, interned at Castamouni.
• Mr Arthur Baker: request by his brother, Mr George Noel Baker, for power of attorney.
• Request by the American Embassy in Constantinople for payments to prisoners authorised by Mr Baker to be made via the Foreign Office.
• Enquiry from Mr Baker about the non-receipt of a payment by Mrs Richard Marshall in Smyrna.

Decision not to involve Lord Edward Cecil in negotiations regarding the exchange of prisoners from the Kut garrison.

Statement of accounts of the British Relief Fund at Constantinople for the year 1915.

Details of Turkish proposals for prisoner exchange.

Flight Lieutenant Cecil B Gasson RN: enquiry from Mr George H Gasson regarding his welfare and whereabouts; confirmation in a letter from the Admiralty that Flight Lieutenant Gasson and other British prisoners (names in docket no.264312) had been released by the Turkish authorities.

Opinion of the War Office that the transfer of Turkish prisoners interned in Egypt from British to French custody would be inadvisable.

Comments by Mr Hoffman Philip of the American Embassy in Constantinople regarding Turkish attitudes towards British prisoners.

Complaints by the Turkish Government about conditions at Thayetmyo Camp in Burma, including:

• Request by the India Office for a report from the Government of India on conditions in the camp.
• Printed report on the accidental death of the Turkish prisoner Haji Halil at Thayetmyo Camp, and proposal for the payment of compensation to his widow.

Code 1244 Files 123698-167944.

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