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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Rules governing the internment of...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/471
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FO 383/471
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Date (When the record was created)
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1918
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Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including:
Rules governing the internment of German prisoners and intermediary aliens in America.
Distribution of work among the departments dealing with prisoners.
Proposal to move the Prisoners of War Department out of the Foreign Office.
Comparison of the Italian and British temporary departments for dealing with war questions.
Request from Lord Newton and the Prisoners of War Department to have final authority over prisoner of war questions without reference to the War Cabinet.
Parliamentary question concerning the powers and duties of Lord Newton and the Prisoners of War Department.
Repatriation of Private Minnaert, a Belgian soldier interned in Switzerland.
Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War on the co-ordination of work connected with prisoners of war.
Report of discussion in House of Commons on whole position of British prisoners in enemy hands.
System of personal files to be used in the Prisoners of War Department Registry.
Repatriation of Dr Walter Hanbold from Spain.
Repatriation of Captain von Heigelin.
Propaganda for the use of consular and other agents abroad.
Request from Adelaide Livingstone, Honorary Secretary of the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War, for information to be used as propaganda by Irvine Cobb, journalist of the Saturday Evening Post.
Appeal by the International Red Cross Committee for the suppression of propaganda camps.
Questions to be raised in connection with negotiations at the Peace Conference.
Repatriation of enemy prisoners on conclusion of hostilities.
Repatriation of Serbian prisoners from Bulgaria and Turkey.
Passage of British prisoners through Denmark after the war.
Repatriation of German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners from Turkestan.
Effect of Armistice on agreements concerning prisoners of war with enemy countries such as Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria.
Effect of Armistice on internment of British prisoners in neutral countries.
Repatriation of German prisoner via the Baltic.
Repatriation of Indian prisoners held in Europe.
Repatriation of Italian prisoners from Moldavia, Bessarabia and Wallachia, Hungary and Russia.
Press notice concerning the repatriation of prisoners of war.
Repatriation of wounded and sick prisoners.
Repatriation of enemy subjects transferred to Australia from New Caledonia.
Press notice concerning the number of repatriated prisoners of war.
Part played by Captain Dix, Royal Navy, Naval Attaché, Copenhagen, in the repatriation of prisoners via Denmark.
Repatriation of Russian and Roumanian prisoners in Germany using German ships.
Repatriation of British prisoners from Germany.
Treatment of enemy aliens in Australia.
Code 1250 Files 14375-29121.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Files 14375-29121.
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