Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Issues relating to camp inspections, the repatriation...

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Issues relating to camp inspections, the repatriation of prisoners and related matters, including:

• Copy of a report sent to the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office on the influenza epidemic at Verdala Camp, Malta, with a list (in docket no.478) of prisoners who died, with brief comments on the circumstances of their deaths.
• Petition from the Austro-Hungarian Committee, Knockaloe Privilege Camp, Isle of Man, requesting their urgent repatriation.
• Report by Mr J H Andersson, the Acting Swedish Consul General at Sydney, on the internment camp at Molonglo, New South Wales, Australia, with a list (in docket no.723) of Austro-Hungarian subjects interned in the camp.
• Confirmation by the Home Office that interned enemy civilians were being repatriated as quickly as available shipping would allow.
• Report by Lieutenant Colonel Lundblad, of the Swedish Legation in London, on a visit of inspection to the Nell Lane Military Hospital, Manchester.
• Request from the Acting Consul General in Sydney for the urgent repatriation of Austrian and Hungarian subjects interned in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Mr Eugen (or Eugene) Malcher, an Austro-Hungarian subject interned at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: payment of an allowance to him from his estate in Northern Rhodesia; subsequent approval for further payments to be made.
• Report by Lieutenant Colonel Lundblad of the Swedish Legation in London on a visit of inspection to a working camp for interned civilian prisoners at Drim Wood, Pembroke, South Wales.
• Arrangements for the return to Austria of British women married to Austrian nationals; statement by the Home Office that they had no knowledge of these arrangements.
• Letter from the Hungarians' World Association requesting the speedy repatriation of Hungarian subjects interned in the UK.
• Lists (in docket no.2869) of Austro-Hungarian subjects, interned at Douglas and Knockaloe camps in the Isle of Man, requesting repatriation at the earliest possible date.
• Report by Lieutenant Colonel Lundblad of the Swedish Legation in London of a visit of inspection to the internment camp for military prisoners at Catterick, Yorkshire.
• Extracts from a report by the Swedish Legation in London relating to complaints by Austro-Hungarian civilians on their treatment while being repatriated by ship from the UK to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
• Request from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna for the repatriation of certain Austrian medical personnel interned at Sidi Bishr, Egypt, with a list of their names (in docket no.3989).
• German memorandum on the repatriation of Austro-Hungarian nationals formerly interned in the UK via Germany.
• Confirmation that certain prisoners interned at Sidi Bishr, Egypt (names in docket no.4467) were members of the Austro-Hungarian military medical service.
• Copy of a letter from the Swedish Consul General at Cape Town, South Africa, transmitting a request from the Austro-Hungarian Committee at Pietermaritzburg for the release and repatriation of interned prisoners in the four camps.
• Correspondence on the repatriation of Austro-Hungarian prisoners from Achmedabad, India, and Gabour, Afghanistan.
• Mr Emil Karpeles: request for the repatriation to Vienna of Austrian civilians interned at Malta.
• Lieutenant Colonel Lundblad of the Swedish Legation in London: report of visits of inspection to the internment camps at Langar Hall, Nottingham; Cirencester, Gloucestershire; and Oswestry, Shropshire.
• Enquiry from the Swedish Legation in London about British policy regarding Austro-Hungarian prisoners who wished to remain in the UK; subsequent information that applications could be made for exemption from repatriation.
• Mr Karl Michel: copy of a letter on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian nationals interned at Ahmednagar Camp, India, requesting their urgent release and repatriation.
• Request by the Austro-Hungarian Government for certain reserve officers interned at Donington Hall to be treated as civilians for purposes of repatriation; decision by the War Office that they should continue to be treated as officers.
• Request by the Austro-Hungarian Government for the urgent repatriation of civilian prisoners in Malta: opinion of the War Office that no action on repatriation should be taken until treaties of peace had been signed with Austria and Hungary.
• Lieutenant Colonel Lundblad of the Swedish Legation in London: report of a visit of inspection to the internment camp for Austro-Hungarian officers at Sandhill Park, Somerset.
• Mr Eugen (or Eugene) Malcher: statement by the High Court of Northern Rhodesia on the balance of the accounts relating to the disposal of his property as an interned enemy subject.

Code 1203 File 290 (to paper 6145).

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