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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Request from Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij...

Catalogue reference: FO 383/358

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Reference

FO 383/358

Date

1917

Description

Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including:

Request from Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij to make payments to German and Austrian subjects in Siberia and China.

Restrictions on parcels and money for German prisoners in Australia.

Repatriation of prisoners on the conclusion of the hostilities.

Relief of enemy subjects in East Africa.

Books for prisoners in Siberia from the Netherland East Indies.

List of American representatives who have looked after British interests in enemy countries.

Emergency British passports issued by the Netherland Legations at Berlin and Brussels.

Request that Mr Grattan Bushe be transferred to the Colonial Office as a Legal Assistant.

Tobacco for German and Austrian prisoners in Russia.

Christmas cards from prisoners in UK.

Disposal of effects of deceased enemy prisoners.

Extracts from foreign newspapers about prisoners.

Safeguard for parcels addressed to prisoners interned in Holland and Switzerland.

Request for numbers of Canadian soldiers, sailors and nurses in neutral countries so they can be given the opportunity to vote.

German and Austrian prisoners in the Moscow district.

Stoppage of British correspondence for Switzerland during the closing of French frontiers.

Inclusion in diplomatic bags of lists and correspondence for the Red Cross at Geneva.

Procedure for dealing with complaints about the receipt of parcels by prisoners.

Proposal to issue a monthly journal about prisoners of war.

Securities of the Austrian prisoner Julius Berger in Russia.

Remittance to the former servants at Beirut of Consul General Hollis.

Claim by the Swiss post office of 25 centimes on parcels sent to prisoners from the UK.

Appeal from the International Prisoners' Agency of the Red Cross in Geneva for funds to continue its work.

Uncontrolled purchase in neutral countries of parcels for prisoners.

Remittance sent to Rotterdam to pay for parcels sent to a prisoner in Germany.

Supplies for prisoners in Germany from Denmark.

Remittance to Mr L Hart in Denmark for a Russian prisoner in Germany.

The personal parcel scheme for the Allied Funds in the UK.

Internment in neutral country of civilian prisoners of war.

Relief of allied prisoners in enemy countries.

Royal order instituting the Central Prisoners of War Office.

Treatment of Romanian civilian prisoners in Germany.

Report of the Sub-Committee on the policy of the"Clean Slate".

Improvement of the world's food supply.

Prisoners' Correspondence Department at the Copenhagen Bureau.

Improvements to the system for dealing with despatches from the Prisoner of War Department to Berne.

Parcels for Sergeant Major Chylle, a Czech prisoner in France, sent by Sister A Brock.

Treatment of American prisoners in Germany.

Code 1250 Files 196545-245163.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

Files 196545-245163.

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Public Record(s)

Language

English and French

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Subjects
Topics
Internment
International
Army
Asia
Nursing
Europe and Russia
Conflict
Australia and Pacific
Food and drink
Nationality
Banking
Communications
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
Africa
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