Turkey: Prisoners, including: Letter from the Government of India requesting instructions...

Turkey: Prisoners, including:

Letter from the Government of India requesting instructions as to the treatment of five Turkish priests sent to India as prisoners of war.

Permission for interned Muslims to attend a Mosque in Pietermaritzburg on religious feast days.

Religious ministrations to British prisoners of war in Turkey:

• Letter from Reverend H Cotton Smith offering to proceed to Turkey in order to minister to British prisoners of war.
• Letter from Reverend W S Langston Day requesting that he may be appointed as British Government chaplain in Constantinople.
• Letter from Reverend R Hodgson, contradicting statement of Reverend Langston Day, stating that he has long been senior chaplain at Constantinople.
• Letter from Reverend W S Langston Day stating that he has performed all important chaplaining work at Constantinople, and requesting payment of a stipend to help cover his heavy debts.

Petition of Mr Summers of the Black Sea Life Saving Service for an increase in the monthly advances made to him out of the British Relief Fund at Constantinople.

Death of Reginald Herbert Scudamore and repatriation of Scudamore family:

• Letter dated 4 May 1918, from Herbert Dawson, brother in law of Reginald Scudamore, requesting information on whether his relatives will be included in the list of civilian prisoners to be repatriated from Turkey.
• Telegram dated 28 May 1918, giving details of deportation of Reginald Herbert Scudamore, registrar of the British Consulate at Constantinople to Broussa.
• Telegrams and correspondence transmitting news of the death of Reginald Herbert Scudamore at Broussa, non-entitlement of family to pension or gratuity, and discussing the possible payment of a relief allowance to the family.

Funds for prisoners of war belonging to the Hampshire Regiment:

• Letter from Miss A Dorothy Burbury of the Hampshire Regiment Prisoners of War Help Fund, protesting at delay in informing her of the transfer of Lieutenant Gilliland to Sofia.
• List of names, distribution and deaths in Turkey of prisoners of the 8th Battalion Hampshire Regiment.
• Record of remittances paid to prisoners belonging to the 8th Battalion Hampshire Regiment.

Correspondence and arrangements regarding British and international prisoners of war detained at Mauthausen, Switzerland.

List of names of one hundred Turkish prisoners of war repatriated from Egypt.

Despatch from Colonel J Picot enclosing a short report by Lieutenant P E Wallis on the experiences of prisoners of war on the journey through Turkey and Austria.

Repatriation of incapacitated Turkish prisoners of war from Egypt and delays imposed due to outbreak of typhus.

Note from Ottoman Red Crescent Society informing of the deaths of British naval prisoners of war, George Dunnington, Stephen Page, and Donald James Read.

Berne Agreement between the British and Ottoman Governments respecting Prisoners of War and Civilians:

• Draft copy of Berne Agreement between the British and Ottoman Governments respecting Prisoners of War and Civilians, dated 28 December 1917.
• Summary of Berne Agreement between British and Turkish Governments on the question of prisoners of war.
• Details of expenses of Lord Newton's mission to Berne.
• Turkish Legation conditions to govern the exchange of British and Turkish prisoners.
• Foreign Office view regarding the undesirability of using the influence of prisoner of war, Ayoub Sabri Bey, as a means of persuading the Turkish Government to ratify the Berne Agreement.
• Ratification of Berne Agreement by Turkish Government.
• Copy of Berne Agreement between the British and Ottoman Governments respecting Prisoners of War and Civilians, dated April 1918.

Letters from the Australian High Commissioner on the desired repatriation of Australian prisoners of war interned in Turkey; with a list of Australian naval prisoners of war.

List of British civilians in Turkey eligible for repatriation.

Implementation of Berne Agreement:

• Note on delays in executing Berne Agreement due to the opposition of Enver Pasha and German Government.
• International negotiations to hasten implementation.
• Communiqué to the Press Bureau dated 7 September 1918, at the suggestion of Sir H Rumbold, stating that Germany rather than Turkey is presenting main obstruction to implementation.
• New press communiqué dated 21 September 1918, stating that further evidence has shown that Enver Pasha is responsible for obstruction.
• Minutes of meeting of Inter-Departmental Committee on Prisoners dated 9 October 1918, threatening reprisals if Turkish Government fail to implement Berne Agreement.

Code 1244 Files 989-1366.

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