Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: YMCA shipments of boots and clothing...

Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including:

YMCA shipments of boots and clothing to prisoners of war in Russia.

YMCA schemes for prisoners of war including parcels to the Crown Prince of Sweden, canteens for internment camps in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia, and work among the Turks in Mesopotamia.

Rockfeller Foundation scheme for assistance of prisoners.

Rubber for dental work among Russian prisoners of war.

Suggested expansion of the activities of the War Prisoners Aid.

Scheme for chartering German ships with neutral crew to bring food from America to allied and enemy prisoners of war.

Supplies for British prisoners at Münster and Ruhleben, including cotton lining, shirts and alcohol (for scientific work).

Agreement with the German authorities for twelve YMCA agents in Germany and Austria.

List of prisoners interned in the Civil Camp at Belgaum, Bombay Presidency, including a report on the civil and military camp at Verdala, Malta by Wilbur Keblinger, Consul.

Complaints concerning internment camp at Field, British Columbia.

Arrangements for visitors at Liverpool internment camp.

Report by Andrew J McConnice, American Consul, on internment camp at St James, Trinidad.

Remarks on the complaints made by prisoners interned at Ahmednagar and requests that the outbreak of bubonic plague in the camp be dealt with.

Reports on camps Vernon, Mara Lake, Edgewood and Field, including photographs of camp at Vernon.

Report by the Consul at Hamilton, Bermuda on conditions in the internment camp at Port's Island.

Report by the Consul at Kingston, Canada on conditions in the internment camp at Fort Henry.

Reply to complaints by the prisoners about the food at the civilian camp at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Report by the Consul at Barbados on conditions at the internment camp at Glendairy.

Complaints from prisoners interned in New South Wales.

Report on the internment camp at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, including lists of individual prisoners and their complaints about food, conditions, and personal accounts of their treatment, and a printed copy of the Trading with the Enemy Act.

Code 1250 Files 31-294 (to paper 34247).

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