Germany: Prisoners, including: Delivery of parcels to British prisoners in Germany,...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Delivery of parcels to British prisoners in Germany, including:

• Private C S Kennedy, interned at Merseburg Camp: information on the confiscation of tinned foods sent to the camp.
• Copy of an article from the Kolnische Zeitung of 25 April 1917, on discussions in the German Reichstag regarding the censorship of parcels.
• Private C Sears, interned at Jerstedt Camp: non-receipt of parcels.
• Colonel Yate MP: parliamentary question about German regulations concerning the contents of parcels.
• Private A Fox and Corporal G McLean: non-receipt of parcels.
• Private Hamid Meerza, interned at Münster Camp: letter complaining about the non-receipt of parcels.
• Private Robert Potts and Private John O'Brien, escaped British prisoners: extracts from interviews about the receipt of parcels in internment camps.
• Draft memoranda to the Netherlands Minister in Berlin on delays in the receipt of letters by prisoners, and the removal of prohibited articles from parcels.
• Visit by Dr Roemer of the Netherlands Legation to Güstrow Camp, and report on the delivery of parcels to prisoners.
• Private E Dipper, interned at Hameln Camp: non-receipt of parcels; recommendation by the British authorities for an inspection of the camp.
• Captain C G Irvine, interned at Schwarmstedt Camp: letter from his father, Mr Charles Irvine, complaining about conditions at the camp.
• Substitution of biscuits for bread by the Copenhagen and Berne Bread Bureaux.
• Article (German language) from an unnamed German newspaper on alleged attempts by French and British prisoners to destroy German crops.
• Correspondence regarding proposals to purchase supplies of tinned fish for prisoners.
• Cessation of retaliatory measures against German prisoners in France, following assurances by the German Government regarding the delivery of parcels to French prisoners in Germany.
• Admission by the Netherlands Post Office of thefts from parcels by some of their employees.
• Report that prisoners at Ruhleben and Zerbst Camps were prohibited from sending acknowledgement cards for receipt of parcels.
• Advice from the Central Prisoners of War Committee on the addressing of parcels to prisoners.
• German memorandum on the reasons for withholding parcels from prisoners at Obercassel Camp.
• Private Albert Monteith, interned at Heuberg-Baden Camp: receipt of a fictitious acknowledgement card from him by the New Zealand Government.
• Discovery in German trenches in France of parcels addressed to British prisoners.
• Enquiry into the non-delivery of parcels to Limburg Camp.
• Private D Manning, interned at Soltau Camp: information on the removal of certain articles from parcels sent to the camp.
• Corporal Charles Shelton, interned at Cologne Camp: non-receipt of parcels; recommendation for an inspection of the camp to be made.
• Draft press notice on German censorship of parcels, and the need to avoid the inclusion of articles in parcels which would prejudice the interests of British prisoners; subsequent draft text of the notice to be issued jointly by the British and German Governments.
• German memorandum on the issue of tinned goods to prisoners.
• Private G Lowe, interned at Soltau Camp: postcard on the irregular arrival of parcels and their bad condition.
• General Sir Ivor Philipps: parliamentary question about reports that tins of biscuits were being removed from prisoners' parcels and used to feed German troops on the Western Front; subsequent memorandum to the German authorities requesting further information.
• Army Council Instruction No.1223 of 1917, German Prisoners of War - Delivery of Parcels to.
• Extracts from interviews with various escaped British prisoners (names in docket no.159630) on the delivery of parcels to internment camps.
• German memorandum on the distribution of tinned food to prisoners at Preussich-Holland Camp.
• Distribution of parcels at Münster Camp.
• List (in docket no.171226) of prisoners from the Royal West Surrey Regiment who had not received parcels.
• Memorandum to the German Government about the removal of tins from parcels at postal control stations.
• Copies of letters from various prisoners (names in docket no.175419) in Lechfeld Camp about the non-receipt of parcels.
• Rifleman A Lloyd, interned at Frankfurt: postcards about the removal of articles from parcels.
• Mr Charles Lister, interned at Soltau Camp: complaint about non-receipt of parcels, with a response from the German authorities.
• Advice from the Central Prisoners of War Committee that waste paper used by shorthand writers should not be used as packing material in parcels.
• Copies of postcards from various prisoners (names in docket no.180601) interned at Heuberg-Baden Camp on the removal of tinned goods from their parcels.
• Complaints from prisoners in Soltau, Schneidemühl and Friedberg Camps about the removal of articles and the non-receipt of parcels.
• Private Albert Dodd interned at Soltau Camp: postcards on the non-receipt of parcels.
• Extracts from interviews with various escaped British prisoners (names in docket nos.182820, 184086, 201400, 208313, 211918, 213448 and 216466) about the non-delivery of parcels.
• Mr A C Harte: request for advice on the supply of provisions and clothing to prisoners in Montenegro, and Russian and Romanian prisoners in Germany.
• Private J Cannon, interned at Minden Camp: letter addressed to his sister, Miss Cannon, and letters from her complaining about the provision of food in the camp.
• Central Prisoners of War Committee: statement on policy regarding the sending of parcels by organisations in neutral countries to British prisoners.
• Private T White, interned at Hameln Camp: non-receipt of parcels.
• Private F Diver, interned at Soltau Camp: confirmation that food parcels were arriving, but that clothing was not being delivered; subsequent memorandum to the German authorities protesting about the non-delivery of suits of clothes to prisoners in working camps.
• Private Donald Barker, interned at Limburg Camp: letter and postcard describing conditions in the camp, with a letter from his father, Mr Archibald Barker, enquiring about the delivery of letters and parcels.
• Captain H S Jervis, interned at Augustabad: copy of a postcard to his wife on the removal of various articles from parcels.
• Central Prisoners of War Committee: instructions on the correct method of addressing parcels to prisoners.
• German memorandum responding to allegations of the non-delivery of shoes and items of clothing in various camps.
• German memorandum on procedures for dealing with tins of preserved food sent to prisoners.
• Invoices listing the articles contained in parcels sent to various prisoners (names in docket no.205055) at Chemnitz Lazaret (Hospital).
• German memorandum on the delivery of bread parcels to prisoners.
• Private Johnson, interned at Wittenberg Camp: enquiry from Miss Dorothy Woodhouse about the non-delivery of a parcel.

Code 1218 File 62216 (papers 127899-218007).

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