Germany: Prisoners, including: Medical treatment of Private Roberts containing: Allegations...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Medical treatment of Private Roberts containing:

• Allegations by the Government Committee on the Treatment of British Prisoners of War of false reporting in an article published in The Daily Mail dated 29 January 1919.
• Protest by The Daily Mail; with printed copy of article dated 19 April 1919, entitled 'German Hospital Horror, Heartless Experiment: A British Soldier's Agony' defending its report of 29 January 1919.

Report in German (with English translation) of German Commission of Enquiry into shooting of prisoners at Stralsund prisoner of war camp.

German Armistice Commission report on enquiries into the shooting of Private Cafferey and the influenza epidemic at the Parchim prisoner of war camp.

Memorandum and reports by Lieutenant Breen, on proceedings at German Commission of Enquiry into the ill-treatment of British prisoners of war, containing:

• Spread of typhus epidemic at Wittenberg prisoner of war camp.
• Trial and execution of Captain Charles Fryatt.

Execution of Captain Charles Fryatt: note on the publication by two socialist members of the Commission of Enquiry, Dr Oskar Colin and Herr Eduard Bernstein, condemning Captain Fryatt's execution as a violation of international law.

Response of Prussian Ministry of War to complaints of conditions at prisoner of war camps:

• Altdamm prisoner of war camp.
• Beienrode salt mine.
• Statement by Corporal J Kilburn on the ill-treatment of prisoners employed at Pausitz, Zachman and company: German inability to verify or disprove allegations due to the discontination of the prisoner of war camp since December 1918.
• Prisoner of war camp, Hameln 17.

Shooting incident at Stralsund camp: note from Chevalier van Rappard enclosing copy of his communication to the German Foreign Office.

Statement by Major James Huscand regarding ill-treatment of Indian prisoners of war captured by Germans in East Africa.

Trial and execution of Captain Charles Fryatt: printed copy of article dated 12 May 1919 and published in The Times, referring to press statements published in the German newspaper Vorwärts by Eduard Bernstein and Dr Oscar Colin.

Statements of Indian prisoners of war on treatment after capture by Germans in East Africa, including the execution of a wounded soldier, Lance Naik Allah Dad:

• Indar Singh, son of Bhag Ding Jar of Dina Tahsil Mogha district.
• Naik Nur Hussain, son of Muhammad Hussain, employed in Regiment 1/130th Baluchis.
• Murad Ali, son of Mir Ali, Pathan Mohammad, employed in 1/130th Baluchis.
• Karm Din, son of Pir Baksh, resident of Pind Dadan Khan city, Jhelum.

Death of Private H Richardson: British request for statement from German Government confirming that violence towards prisoners of war was strictly forbidden.

Code 1218 File 7 (papers 4604-548).

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