The Balkans: Prisoners, including: Mr Sando Kiroff, an interned prisoner in Canada:...

The Balkans: Prisoners, including:

Mr Sando Kiroff, an interned prisoner in Canada: confirmation that he was employed at the Hudson Bay Mine, Bienfait.

Accounts of the British Relief Fund, including:

• Captain H S Stewart, former senior British officer at Philippopolis, Bulgaria: deposit of a cash box at the Foreign Office in London.
• Statement of accounts of expenditure by the British Relief Fund in the Balkans for the quarter ending 30 September 1918, with details (in docket no.443) of special payments to certain British officers.
• Non-delivery of funds sent from the British Legation in Berne, Switzerland, to the British Relief Fund in Sofia, Bulgaria, due to the disruption of postal communications; question of the disposal of the funds in question, and transfer of the currency into Swiss francs.
• Additional details of expenditure by the British Relief Fund in the Balkans for the quarter ending 30 September 1918, with a list (in docket no.624) of British officers and civilians, giving details of cheques drawn by them from various British banks.
• Statement of accounts of expenditure by the British Relief Fund in the Balkans for the quarter ending 31 December 1918, with a list (in docket no.2167) of cheques cashed by British officers during the month of October 1918.
• Messrs Cox and Co: arrangements for the collection of cheques drawn by British prisoners in Bulgaria, and subsequent payment to the Foreign Office of their total value less commission.
• Arrangements for the reimbursement to the Treasury of the World's Committee of money advanced by the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Bulgaria to certain British prisoners.
• Acknowledgement of the receipt of the accounts of the British Relief Fund in the Balkans for the quarter ending 31 March 1919.
• Correspondence on the transmission of lists of British officers to whom monthly pay had been issued by the Bulgarian Government.
• Second Lieutenant Charles de Lemos of the Worcestershire Regiment: remittance of back pay by the Bulgarian Government.
• Refund to the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of payments made to five British soldiers in Bulgaria.
• Notification by the American Embassy in Sofia of the discontinuation of payments to British civilians in Bulgaria.

Stephan Housepeanu, interned at Alexandra Palace: agreement for his immediate release, and acceptance of his claim for Roumanian nationality.

Correspondence on the transmission of lists of British prisoners repatriated from Bulgaria following the declaration of the Armistice.

Mr A J Wettnall, a British pilot killed in aerial combat near Philippi, Eastern Macedonia: arrangements for the return of his personal belongings to the UK.

Peter Ioveff, Ivan Yaboucarsky and Dimitar Georgeff Ingliss, Bulgarian prisoners formerly interned in the UK: correspondence on the transmission of their death certificates and those of other [unnamed] Bulgarian prisoners to the Bulgarian Government.

Allegations of the ill-treatment of British prisoners in Bulgaria, including:

• Captain Nicoloff, former commandant of the internment camp at Philippopolis, and Mr Bauer: enquiries about procedures for securing their arrest.
• Responsibilities for the punishment of Turks and Bulgarians found guilty of the ill-treatment of prisoners.

Code 1219 Files 13-1921.

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