Germany: Prisoners, including: German Government request for information on alleged...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

German Government request for information on alleged shooting of two Germans in Durban in 1917 on the charge of having laid mines at Cape Town Harbour, South Africa: statement by Governor General of Union of South Africa.

Nationality of Johannes van der Spek interned at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp: Dutch nationality forfeited as a result of voluntary enlistment in German Army.

Harold Falconer: appeals by mother, Mary Platt-Falconer for release of her son, interned as a German subject in Holland.

Gertrude Brandes: interned under Defence of the Realm Regulations upon discovery of her co-operation with a German spy.

Arrangements to supply rupture trusses and spectacles to German prisoners in consequence procedure employed in German prisoner of war camps.

Edgar Fischer, German subject and son-in-law of Italian ambassador, interned at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man: negotiations and special arrangements for his release on account of his relationship to the Italian ambassador.

Captain Z S Loof, former commander of the ship Königsberg, suffering from malaria and heart disease while interned at Sidi Bishr prisoner of war camp, near Alexandria in Egypt: appeals for his repatriation on health grounds.

Oscar Lehman Schröder, civilian prisoner interned at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp: British explanation for a postal blockade imposed on him which denied him the possibility of communicating with his relatives for six weeks.

Grounds for repatriation from Holland of German subjects named Close and Blumberg: dispute between Britain and Germany over the equivalence of the case with three British prisoners named Mitchell, Ward and Campbell.

Arrangements for delivery of remittances and parcels to prisoners of war:

• Robert Martens of Berrima prisoner of war camp, New South Wales.
• Herr von Heyderbrand und der Lasa of Motuihi prisoner of war camp, New Zealand.
• Dr Edward Ernest Lehwess: forwarding of luggage of Dr Lehwess, an exchanged prisoner of war, from Spalding prisoner of war camp to Holland.

Appeal to British government to intervene regarding the threatened expulsion of the German religious order the 'Sisters of the Precious Blood'.

Vatican note from Cardinal Hartmann, soliciting the intervention of the Holy See in favour of German missionaries interned at Ahmendnagar and enclosing a list of German missionaries imprisoned in India and Egypt.

Fritz Gompertz, interned at Wakefield prisoner of war camp: request for his relocation to a sanatorium.

Reported deaths of German planters in New Guinea: German Government request for information on planters named as Limberg, Hellwig, Weber, Schmidt and Mueller.

German Government note referring to a report by Paul Nürnberger on alleged removal of Geneva Red Cross armlets from German prisoners of war depriving them of proof that they were medical officials under the protection of the Geneva Convention and demanding action on the part of the British Government threatening reprisals.

German proposal for periodic reciprocal medical examinations of British and German prisoners of war.

Sentence pronounced on Lieutenant Alexander von Menges, prisoner of war in India:

• Government of India despatch enclosing correspondence on the sentence.
• German Government requests for further explanation regarding heaviness of sentence.
• Indian Government decision not to forward documents to Germany containing complaints by Menges regarding his treatment at Ahmednagar prisoner of war camp.

Memorandum for transmission to German Government by the head captains of the seamen interned at Douglas prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man, requesting clarification on repatriation requirements and exceptions.

Detention of Captain von Diederichs with forty eight others at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp, on charges of espionage:

• German Government note threatening reprisals if the forty nine prisoners are not transferred to another prisoner of war camp or compound.
• German request for officer treatment of the forty nine men.
• British refutation of allegations of segregation contained in the German Government communications.
• Failure of German negotiations for repatriation of Captain von Diederichs.

Knockaloe prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man: communications of the General Welfare Committee and note on the provision of food supplies for prisoners at Knockaloe.

German Government request for information on the alleged shooting of eighteen men from German submarines at Wandsworth Prison.

L R Schmidt of Tanamapua prisoner of war camp in Samoa: request for supply of German salvarsan, as medical treatment.

German Government request for information on alleged transfer of eighty German prisoners from Holyport prisoner of war camp to a reprisal camp; British reply that no reprisal camps exist in Britain.

Allegations of neglect of wounded Germans by British medical services.

Naval Captain Lieutenant J Schütt: information regarding his current location and condition.

Oscar Preser: British information on alleged confiscation of Preser's personal belongings at Pattishall prisoner of war camp.

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