Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Mr Bernard George Rice, interned at Innsbruck:...

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Mr Bernard George Rice, interned at Innsbruck: enquiry about a post as an art teacher in the United Kingdom after the war, and request for relief payments.

Enquiry about the military status of certain Austro-Hungarian prisoners including:

• Breckner, Anton Plety, Alfred Schiefler and Anton Gerl, interned at Liverpool Camp in New South Wales, Australia,: opinion of the Austro-Hungarian authorities that they should be given officer status.
• Max Kroznai, Felix Lorria and Walter Sprenger, interned at Trial Bay, New South Wales: confirmation of their officer status by the Austro-Hungarian authorities.
• Anton Woisetschlaeger: confirmation of his officer status by the Austro-Hungarian authorities.
• Opinion of the War Office that 'aspirant officers' in the Austro-Hungarian Army were not entitled to officer status as prisoners.
• Gustav Spiess, interned at Amherst Camp: enquiry regarding his military status; ruling the by War Office that he was not entitled to officer status.
• Max Krausz, interned at Alexandra Palace: confirmation of his officer status by the Austro-Hungarian authorities.
• Ensign Charles Jaros, interned at Sidi Bishr, Egypt: confirmation of his officer status.

Repatriation of Austrian seamen, including:

• Enquiries about the crew of various ships (ships' names in docket no.772).
• Enquiry by the Austro-Hungarian authorities about parole given by the crews of SS Koerber and SS Marquis Bacquehem.
• Nikolo Juricevic, an officer from SS Izrada: copy of his undertaking of neutrality, and claims by the British Government that he had broken the terms of his parole.
• Lists of crew members of SS Koerber and SS Marquis Bacquehem (in docket no. 34665) who had been repatriated and had signed undertakings of neutrality.
• Request by the Austro-Hungarian Government for the repatriation on parole of crew members from SS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand (list of names in docket no.44682).
• Correspondence with the Austro-Hungarian Government concerning breaches of parole by Austro-Hungarian seamen; opinion of the Admiralty.
• Agreement by the Australian Government to repatriate interned Austro-Hungarian seamen.
• Seizure of the SS Turul by the Australian authorities, with a list of crew members (in docket no.75993); questioning of the legality of this action by the Austro-Hungarian Government; judgment by the Prize Court at Sydney that the seizure was legal.
• Request by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office for the relocation of crew members of SS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand from the camp at Ahmednagar in India to Dagshai; report on the health of the seamen by the Senior Medical Officer at Ahmednagar.
• List of Austro-Hungarian seamen who had been repatriated, from 17 December 1914 to 19 October 1916 (in docket no.128738).
• Information that the repatriated Austrian seamen Franz Paul Kock and Gottlieb Zachata had enlisted in the Austrian army and navy respectively.

Prisoners in Austria: request for relief payments and other matters, including:

• Soliman Abdin, a refugee from Monastir in Vienna: application for relief.
• Mr George Fairholme: remittances to his brother, Mr James Fairholme, interned at Gmünden.
• Mr Edwin Thomas, interned at Katzenau: payments to him from the Armstrong Oiler Company Ltd.
• Miss Doris Podmore: repayment of money to the British Relief Fund.
• Miss Henrietta E Griffith, resident in Vienna: arrangements for the payment of her pension by the British India Office.
• Question of the payment of relief to Cypriot nationals; ruling by the Foreign Office.
• Mr Evan Jones, confined at Raabs: request for a remittance from his mother, Mrs E M Greenfield, in England.
• Correspondence relating to the accounts of the British Relief Fund at Vienna.
• Miss Ada Frances Parkinson: repayment of money to the British Relief Fund.
• Arrangements for crediting extra money to the British Relief Fund at Vienna.
• Question of payment of relief to British subjects in Austria-Hungary who had income from other sources, with particular reference to Mr Joseph Manning, Mr Eugene Hyndman and Mr Frederick Montford.
• Receipt in London of the accounts of the British Relief Fund at Vienna for the years 1915-1916.
• List of British nationals resident in enemy territory receiving pensions from the India Office (in docket no.81062).
• Transfer of money for the British Relief Fund from the British Legation at Berne to the Spanish Embassy in Vienna.
• Mr Albert Batt and Mr Cyril Ross-Bell confined at Karlstein: confirmation that they were receiving salaries from Thomas Cook and Son, and consequent stoppage of relief payments to them.
• Increase in the grant of relief payments to single British subjects confined in Austria-Hungary.
• Question of relief payments to Kostas Pochania and Loizos A Giallouris, Cypriot nationals interned in Hungary.
• Mr James Philpot interned at Karlestein: confirmation that he was receiving a salary from Thomas Cook and Son, and stoppage of his relief payments.
• Mr Cyril Ross-Bell, confined at Karlstein: arrangements for payments to be made by his mother, and for his repatriation on health grounds.

Code 1203 Files 419-950.

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