Germany: Prisoners, including: British response to note from German Government requesting...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

British response to note from German Government requesting a reciprocal implementation of the practice of paying prisoners of war employed as dentists.

Arrangements for transfer of remittances to German subjects interned in South Africa.

British refutation of allegations that German prisoners of war captured by Australian troops are not regarded as coming under Hague Agreement.

Max Funke, interned at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man: documents and correspondence regarding entitlement to arrears of pay.

Arno Friedrich: eye-witness accounts and coroner's reports on his death by drowning at Trial Bay in New South Wales, Australia.

Proposed transfer to neutral country of German prisoners of war: letter (in French) from Cardinal Gasparri, Secretary of State for the Vatican, calling attention to the cases of three interned German subjects named Alois Meyenberg, August Felsberg and Maximilien Stözle; British Government response stating transfers are dependent on results of medical reports.

Alleged proceedings against German crew of the ship Turritella:

• Request by German Government for explanation regarding alleged proceedings against the German crew detained at Ahmednagar.
• Report from Government of India with the testimony of Captain Brandes of the Turritella confirming that neither he nor his crew faced murder charges.

British response to alleged solitary confinement of Dr Mehnarto, a German subject, interned at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man.

Prince Franz Josef of Hohenzollern interned at Malta: letters to his sister, Queen Augusta Victoria of Portugal.

German Government complaint that German prisoners captured from submarines, air ships and aeroplanes are subjected to treatment that forces them to disclose military information.

German request for investigation into alleged handcuffing of the crew of captured German submarine U.58.

Reciprocal Anglo-German arrangements for payment of medical personnel and chaplains in prisoner of war camps.

Arrangements for allowances payable to sanitary personnel in prisoner of war camps.

Proposed transfer of Friedrich Wilhelm Fritz, currently interned at Ahmednagar prisoner of war camp, to French authorities.

Dr Richard Neumann: claim for return of books and manuscripts taken from him at the time of repatriation.

German Government statement replying to British complaint and threat of reprisals regarding conditions at Clausthal prisoner of war camp.

Mutual reprisals imposed by Germany and Britain on prisoner of war camps:

• Details of reprisals to be placed on German prisoners in British prisoner of war camps owing to conditions endured by British prisoners in the tenth German Army Corps district; German response threatening counter-reprisals; British reply stating that consequence of counter-reprisals will be additional reprisals for German prisoners.
• Explanation given by British Government for transfer of 59 German prisoners from Catterick to Stafford Detention Barracks.
• Reprisals on British prisoners at Wahnbeck prisoner of war camp in Germany, in response to conditions at Kegworth prisoner of war camp in England.
• German proposal stating conditions whereby British officers may be transferred from Holzminden and Clausthal.
• Correspondence on preparation by Dame Adelaide Livingstone of a memorandum on the subject of how reprisals are affecting prisoners.
• Memorandum by Dame Adelaide Livingstone giving a summary of reprisals on German and British prisoners of war since the beginning of the First World War.
• Criticism of Dame Adelaide Livingstone's memorandum.

Arrangements for death certificates for German prisoners dying overseas:

• Correspondence on reciprocal Anglo-German arrangements for the provision of death certificates.
• Karl Jakob Johannes Eggers, German prisoner of war who died in Abassia Hospital Cairo: request by his father for death certificate and effects of his son.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Hermann Janzen, German prisoner of war who died at Imtarfa Hospital, Malta.
• Hermann Alfred Fischer, German subject who died in Sydney, New South Wales, having jumped from a train whilst under military escort.

Code 1218 Files 59729-81208.

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