Germany: Prisoners, including: Captain C Dehnicke, former captain of the ship C Ferd....

FO 383/442

1918

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Captain C Dehnicke, former captain of the ship C Ferd. Laeisz, interned at Berrima prisoner of war camp in New South Wales, Australia: claim that he and his crew should benefit by the Franco-German Agreement.

Investigation into the alleged imprisonment at Rouen in France, of eleven German non-commissioned officers, for refusing to work.

Appeal for relief allowance for Mr H Remme, a teacher at Pietermaritzburg prisoner of war camp in South Africa.

Correspondence and negotiations for the repatriation of Sergeant Rudolph Ebelt, temporarily interned in The Netherlands.

Treatment of Lieutenant S Spindler of the ship Libau, while interned at Cromwell Gardens Barracks, London: contains a report by Lieutenant Spindler, dated 10 June 1918, and British Government response to his complaints.

British policy on sons of alien parentage serving with British Army: application by Private Hugo Wilhelm Biskeborn for his release from British Army on the grounds of being a German-born subject.

Authorisation of relief payments to Mrs Agnes Louise Lüdicke, a German subject, residing at St John's Wood in London.

Detention in New South Wales of Herr de Hass and others formerly of the German Consulate at Sydney.

German Government request for investigation into the alleged shooting of three German subjects in German East Africa.

Transport of possessions of repatriated German prisoners of war:

• E Balster of Lofthouse prisoner of war camp: arrangements for shipping his dachshund to Germany, upon his repatriation.
• Leonard Holman, formerly of West Riding Asylum at Wakefield, West Yorkshire: claim for return of his property upon repatriation.
• Friedrich A Niemann, formerly of Knockaloe prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man: arrangements for return of a trunk of clothing.

Claims for money due to repatriated German prisoners of war:

• Simon Bacharach, repatriated German prisoner of war: note from German Government respecting a sum of £26 allegedly taken from him at Spalding prisoner of war camp.
• M Volk, formerly of Knockaloe prisoner of war camp: claim relating to money due from loans made to Mr A Herpy of Richmond, Surrey.

Transfer of German subjects from German East Africa to the Union of South Africa: Kamilla Hillencamp and daughter; request of widow of the former Director of German East African Railways, to travel to South Africa from Dar-es-Salaam, in German East Africa.

Gift of walking sticks for British wounded, made by German prisoners at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp on the Isle of Man.

German complaint regarding expenses incurred by medical staff Dietz and Horn, who were required to pay for rations while detained at Luderitzbuch and Windhuk [Windhoek] prisoner of war camps in South West Africa, in contravention of Article 13 of Geneva Convention.

Frau Elsie Dill of Pforzheim: application for payment of remittances out of the estate of her husband, Robert Dill in India.

Arrest of Madame Wilhelmine Earle and her daughter, Ellinor Hildegard Polkingborne on charges of espionage:

• Letters commenting on sentence passed.
• Press cutting of article from The Evening Standard, entitled 'Code to the Enemy: Woman's Sympathy with the Germans', dated 16 September 1918.
• Press cutting of article from The Times, entitled 'Letters to Dresden: Prussian-born Woman sent to Gaol', dated 17 September 1918.

German request for information on any restrictions placed on the correspondence of Count Graf von Fabrice, sent via a neutral country.

Gerhard Sander, German prisoner interned in Southampton: offer by the Prince Consort of the Netherlands to use his influence on behalf of a British prisoner, in return for information on Sander; British acceptance of offer in return for the Prince's intervention in the case of Surgeon Probationer Oswald.

British response to German request for details regarding the violent death of prisoner of war, Alfred Heinig at the hands of a fellow prisoner, Anton Rall.

Request for return of effects of German civilian, Ludwig Bauer, killed at Douglas prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man, and for payment of insurance to his mother.

German Government appeal for repatriation of Gertrude Evelyn and daughter, currently interned in Holloway Prison under the Defence of the Realm Act.

Relief for the captains and crews of the Glückstädter Fisheries Company interned at Knockaloe prisoner of war camp, Isle of Man.

Repatriation of wounded German prisoner, Willi Bever, in hospital in Dartford, Kent: Vatican appeal for his release.

Arrangements for funeral expenses of Private James Anderson, who died in hospital sheds at Rotterdam during his repatriation from Germany.

Relief arrangements for repatriated prisoners of war arriving through Paris.

Arrangements for assistance to British soldiers by Polish Government.

Port arrangements for repatriation of German prisoners: note stating difficulty of receiving German prisoners via Denmark; arrangement for transport of parties of German prisoners from Leith in Scotland to Copenhagen in Denmark.

Letter from Leonard Pocock, dated 22 November 1918, repudiating the manner in which repatriation is being carried out.

Letter requesting information on Lieutenant Leslie Holman, interned at Holzminden prisoner of war camp.

Correspondence regarding poor conditions at Holzminden prisoner of war camp.

Ill-treatment of British officers on board the repatriation ship Takada.

Report dated 12 December 1918, by Captain Gerald Saint John and the medical officer, William Bradbury, of the ship Coventry regarding their visit to Danzig and conditions at Kaiser Hafen prisoner of war camp.

German Government note requesting that all German fathers be permitted to return to Germany at once in order to spend Christmas with their families.

Code 1218 Files 109504-119708.

Files 109504-119708.

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