Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including: Khaki Prisoners of War Fund. Provision...

FO 383/474

1918

Miscellaneous (General): Prisoners, including:

Khaki Prisoners of War Fund.

Provision of extra assistance to merchant seamen interned in Holland and Switzerland.

Request from the High Commissioner of South Africa that repatriated prisoners ordinarily resident in South Africa contact him on their release.

Arrangements for provision of civilian prisoners belonging to dominions with identification papers.

Parcels from the German Red Cross for prisoners in the UK.

Relief for distressed Austrians and Germans in Britain.

Relief for German wives of interned aliens.

Arrangements for prisoners interned abroad, issued by the Commonwealth Defence Department.

Copy of The Guild Gazette. A Journal of the Imperial Merchant Service Guild.

Copy of the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.

Inter-Allied Conference at Paris.

Export of cigars from Sweden and supply of cigarettes and tobacco to prisoners in various countries.

Minutes of the meeting of 3 October 1918 of the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee concerning:

• release of British prisoners in Turkey and Bulgaria
• reprisals for the ill-treatment of prisoners
• ratification of 1918 Agreement relating to the release of British prisoners in Germany over 45 years old

Press release concerning the non-ratification of the Hague Agreement and the release of prisoners in Bulgaria and Turkey.

Minutes of the meeting of 7 October 1918 of the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee concerning:

• refusal of Germany to ratify the Hague Agreement
• treatment of British prisoners near Charleville
• exchange of prisoners with Turkey

Suggestions for press statement to forestall parliamentary questions concerning the number of prisoners already repatriated or interned in neutral countries, the non-ratification of the Hague Agreement and the non-execution of the Berne Agreement.

Memorandum by the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee suggesting measures to be adopted to force better treatment of prisoners in Germany and Turkey.

Letter from Lowther Bridger of Lyndhurst stating that the government should announce that those responsible for the ill-treatment of prisoners should be punished.

Ratification of the Hague Agreement and reprisals on German prisoners.

Minutes of the meeting of 17 October 1918 of the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee concerning:

• conditions of prisoners and internees in Holland
• grants to repatriated civilians to travel from port of landing to their homes
• steps to remove British civilians from Havelberg transferred there from Ruhleben

Minutes of the meeting of 22 October 1918 of the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee concerning:

• threat by Austro-Hungary to execute Allied airmen for dropping pamphlets

List of persons on the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee.

Minutes of the meeting of 5 November 1918 of the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee concerning:

• the ratification of the Hague Agreement
• effects of the Armistice on agreements concluded with enemy countries

Minutes of the meeting of 31 October 1918 of the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee concerning:

• repatriation from Holland of British officers ineligible on medical grounds
• communication with British prisoners in occupied territory
• proposal of Newfoundland War Contingent Association to start a fund at the expense of enemy governments to compensate British prisoners for losses and injuries
• publication of future reports by the Government Committee
• removal of British subjects from Havelberg
• inspection of prisoners' camps in Belgium
• failure of Dutch Legation, Berlin, to communicate with the British Government the date on which the ultimatum of 12 October 1918 was presented to the German Government
• programme for the Inter-Allied Conference, Paris

Minutes of meeting of the 14 November 1918 of the Transport Sub-Committee concerning the repatriation and general situation as regards camps, supplies, the conference to be held at Spa and the functions of neutral representatives.

Addition of colonial representatives to the Interdepartmental Committee on Prisoners of War.

Minutes of the meeting of 8 November 1918 of the Interdepartmental Prisoners of War Committee concerning:

• post-Armistice functions of diplomatic missions representing the British Government in Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria
• employment of bloodhounds for guarding prisoners in France
• transfer to Holland of submarine crews
• supplies to Red Cross at Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Berne, post-Armistice for British prisoners of war in Germany
• neglect of repatriated prisoners of war
• position of prisoners in neutral countries post-Armistice
• internment of Austro-Hungarian and Turkish civilians if they refuse to perform work of National Service

Minutes of the meeting of 15 November 1918 of the Transport Sub-Committee concerning:

• repatriation of prisoners from Switzerland
• question of distributing leaflets to returned prisoners
• repatriation of prisoners from Norway and Denmark

Minutes of the meeting of 13 November 1918 of the Transport Sub-Committee concerning:

• colonial representatives for the Interdepartmental Committee
• reception of repatriated prisoners and particularly civilians
• repatriation of British prisoners from lines in France and from Turkey
• food and clothing for British prisoners in course of repatriation
• discontinuation of Rotterdam Lloyd and Zealand boats
• repatriation of German prisoners

Permanent Commission for Defence of Principles of Geneva Convention to be formed under auspices of Interdepartmental Committee for Prisoners of War.

Minutes of the meeting of 19 November 1918 of the Transport Sub-Committee concerning:

• arrangements for reception of civilians in UK
• establishment of Dutch Transport Commission at Berlin
• General Graham Thomson's position
• transport of prisoners from Rhein ports
• treatment of British merchant seamen when they arrive in Italy from Austro-Hungary

Minutes of the meeting of 18 November 1918 of the Transport Sub-Committee concerning:

• utilisation of river service between Cologne and Rotterdam
• expenditure incurred by Repatriation Commission, Holland
• Miss Vulliamy's salary
• status of Russian prisoners and question of their receiving parcels left behind at British prisoner of war camps
• embarkation of prisoners from Holland in ships the Dutch are sending to fetch coal
• issue of press information regarding prisoners' repatriation
• discontinuation at The Hague of some categories' undertakings to repay relief

Minutes of the meeting of 20 November 1918 of the Transport Sub-Committee concerning:

• removal of German women and children from East Africa
• transport of British prisoners from Baltic ports
• repatriation of Indian prisoners and civilians from Germany and Roumania

Code 1250 Files 107465-114592 (to paper 117778).

Files 107465-114592 (to pp.117778).

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