Germany: Prisoners: including: Authorisation for British prisoners in Switzerland...

Germany: Prisoners: including:

Authorisation for British prisoners in Switzerland to send parcels to British prisoners in Germany.

Georg F Webendörfer, a German subject interned at Liverpool, New South Wales: various letters protesting about the circumstances of his internment.

Disciplinary measures at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man, including:

• German memorandum outlining various individual cases (names in docket no.25260), with a letter from E Arndt, Sub-Commandant of Camp IV.
• Request for information on sentences passed on Georg Goller and three German sailors in the camp.

Sketch map (in docket no.25505) showing the route to be followed by prisoners escaping from Germany to the Netherlands.

Detention of Richard Heckmann, a German subject, in the UK, including:

• Request by the German Foreign Office for his urgent transfer to Switzerland for medical treatment.
• Mrs H L Heckmann: letter stating that her husband was unfit to travel.
• Arrangements for Mr Heckmann to be transferred to France under medical escort.
• Mrs H L Heckmann: protest about the confinement of her husband in the military prison in Algiers, Algeria.

Dr Walter Gellhorn, who died while interned at Stobs Detention Camp, Hawick, Scotland: request by his brother, Dr George Gellhorn, for the return of his remains and personal effects to Germany, and for assistance with the disposal of his property.

Gustav Schulze, interned at Olympia, London: German memorandum requesting information on the circumstances of his wounding by a sentry.

George Beck, a German subject interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: protest about the compulsory enlistment of his son, Georg Beck, in the British Army.

Report of the court of enquiry appointed to investigate complaints from German prisoners regarding their treatment while interned at Torrens Island, South Australia, with various witness statements (names in docket no.26737).

Correspondence regarding a postcard from Miss Bertha Terson, thought to have been interned at Lauban.

Captain T Luning, a German subject interned at Malta: request for the transmission to Germany of money and papers, including:

• Opinion of the Admiralty that the papers, which contained voyage accounts and details of payments to the crew of SS Istria, should not be sent to Germany.

Pastor Rudolf Hartmann, interned at Knockaloe Camp: proposal for his repatriation to Germany in exchange for the Reverend H M Williams.

Duplication of work by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War and the Central Prisoners of War Committee of the British Red Cross.

List of names of German missionaries (in docket no.27508) arrested in German East Africa.

Proposal for the exchange of Dr Hans Kassner, a German subject interned in the Azores, for an unnamed Portuguese prisoner.

Arrangements for the representation of British interests in Germany by the Netherlands Minister in Berlin, following the severance of diplomatic relations between Germany and USA, including:

• Agreement by the Netherlands Government to the proposals.
• Procedures to be adopted for communicating with the German Government via the British Embassy at The Hague.
• Copy of a letter of thanks to the King of Spain regarding his offer to represent British interests in Germany.
• Appointment of Jonkheer von Vrednburch as the Netherlands Minister in Berlin.
• Mr Hume-Williams MP: parliamentary question on arrangements for visits to British prisoners interned in Germany.
• Request for five copies to be sent of all communications from the British Government to the German Government.
• Details of funds transferred from the US Embassy in Berlin to the Netherlands Minister in Berlin.
• Details of expenses formerly incurred by the US Embassy in Berlin in connection with their responsibilities for British interests.
• Remuneration of diplomats appointed to look after British interests in Germany and Belgium.
• Arrangements for payments to Dr Römer and Dr Rademaker for their work as inspectors of prison camps in Germany.
• Instructions to Monsieur van Rappard on the wording of communications addressed to the German Government.
• Request for an additional motor car to facilitate visits to prison camps in Germany.
• Proposal to recruit additional doctors at the Netherlands Legation in Berlin to carry out prison inspections.
• Delays in the transmission of official memoranda to the German Government.
• Information that thirty six prison camps in Germany had been visited during October 1917.

Mr Walter de Haas, formerly of the German Consulate in Sydney: detention at Trial Bay, Australia, including:

• Refusal by the Australian Government to agree to his release.
• Permission for the transmission of a letter from Mr de Haas to the German Government regarding his national status.
• German memorandum enquiring about the whereabouts and welfare of Mr de Haas and other former officials of the German Consulate in Sydney.
• German memorandum requesting the reasons for the continuing detention of Mr de Haas.

Code 1218 Files 25245-27930.

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