Turkey: Prisoners, including: Delivery of relief supplies to prisoners in Turkish...

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Delivery of relief supplies to prisoners in Turkish prisoner of war camps:

• Instructions to Swiss Government on arrangements for despatch of parcels intended for British prisoners by sealed trucks.
• Delivery and financial arrangements for clothing and relief supplies to British prisoners pending repatriation.
• Draft minutes of conference held at War Office on 31 October 1918 to consider proposal for despatching supplies to British prisoners in Turkey by way of Salonika, Mudros or a port in Asia Minor.
• Report of the Prisoners of War Relief Committee, dated 30 September 1918, providing a summary of work for the preceding six months.
• Report by two escaped prisoners of war on the delivery of parcels to British prisoners in Turkey: Captain J B Harris of the Hampshire Regiment; and Captain K D Yearsley of the Royal Engineers.
• Correspondence and notes on British policy on providing assistance to destitute Armenian, Russian and other Allied prisoners in Constantinople.
• Issue by Netherlands Legation of clothing to Serbian and Russian prisoners from stocks originally destined for British prisoners.
• Accommodation for prisoners: list of Russian monasteries in Galata to be taken over and administered by the British, as required for Allied prisoners of war.
• Correspondence on question of granting relief to distressed Egyptians in Turkey.
• Letters and telegrams from Egyptian subjects protesting at the suppression of their allowances.

British Relief Fund for prisoners in Turkey:

• Statements and correspondence on accounts of British Relief Fund in Constantinople.
• Receipts relating to transfers of finance to the British Relief Fund through the Sheurleer account with Coutts Bank.
• Note dated 17 January 1918, reporting on arrangements by Cox and Company for payment of remittances to prisoners of war in Turkey.
• Correspondence on the practice employed by the Netherlands Legation for cashing of British officers' cheques.
• Financial statements on negotiations relating to expenses of the British Relief Fund at Constantinople.
• Report and summary of accounts of the British Relief Fund in Smyrna, dated 15 January 1918.
• Letter from Mr James Baker of the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Company, expressing an interest in contributing to the British Relief Fund.
• Two lists of bills drawn by the Netherlands Minister at Constantinople relating to the British Relief Fund.
• List of Cypriots of Constantinople receiving relief from the British Relief Fund.

Intelligence provided by Miss E D Cushman on Adenese and Sudanese interned in the district of Konia.

Request for relief allowance for Madame Annie Civica, née Wigham: letter from Miss E D Cushman testifying to Madame Civica's character and genuine need; Foreign Office memorandum stating that because Madame Civica forfeited her British nationality through marriage, there is no entitlement to a British Relief Fund allowance.

Letter from the British Government to the Government of Cyprus regarding the withdrawal of relief payments to Cypriots in Turkey.

Code 1244 Files 684 (papers 116181-end)-687 (to paper 111656).

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