Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including: Reginald Wyon: investigation into the circumstances...

FO 383/482

1919

Austria-Hungary: Prisoners, including:

Reginald Wyon: investigation into the circumstances of his arrest and imprisonment in Hungary, including:

• Letter from Mr Wyon requesting a formal investigation into his case.
• Information that Mr Wyon had been arrested by the Hungarian authorities following a denunciation by Mr J W Brooke, then resident in Vienna.
• Provision of Mr Brooke's current address by the Spanish Embassy in Vienna, and information that his application for Austrian nationality had been denied.
• Captain Reginald Terrell MP: request for Mr Wyon to be granted financial support pending the settlement of his case against the Hungarian Government.
• Instructions to Monsieur Allizé, the French Commissioner in Vienna, to obtain information on the arrest of Mr Wyon.

Provision of assistance to British subjects in Austria-Hungary by Spanish Embassy staff, including:

• Harry Ross: letter providing information on various members of staff at the Spanish Embassy in Vienna.
• List (in docket no.6654) of staff at the Spanish Embassy in Berne, Switzerland, to be considered for the award of British decorations or medals.
• Request for the name of Monsieur Manuel de Soto, the Spanish Consul at Zurich, to be added to the list.

Mr A J White: recovery by the Hungarian authorities of money stolen from him at Budapest station.

Mr Röhlich and Josephine Kinder, Austrian nationals in India: information from the Government of India that they were interned in camps at Nowgong and Meshed respectively.

Theodore Parry, a British civilian formerly interned in Austria: request for a certificate of exemption from military service.

Mr J U T Shiell: enquiry from his father, Mr A G Shiell, for the reasons for his son's detention by the Austrian authorities at Feldkirch.

Edwin Fahrenholte: reference to a letter in which he claimed that he acted as a British spy in Roumania.

Mr A Kerters, a Roumanian national working as a research assistant at Cambridge: appeal against his re-internment.

Frank Schellnbacher, a naturalised South African subject resident in Vienna: request for permission for him to return to South Africa with his wife (née Lucy Tebbutt).

Leonard Bickford Smith, resident at Truro, Cornwall: permission for the transmission of forms to him from Vienna, together with information that his factory at Wiener Neustadt was no longer under state control.

Miss Sybil Mary Mosdell Smith, resident at Budapest: enquiries from her mother, Mrs Mary Mosdell Smith, and her sister, Miss Ethel Mosdell Smith, about her welfare, and arrangements for the transmission of sums of money to her.

Code 1203 Files 2941-3977.

Files 2941-3977.

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