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Germany: Prisoners, including: Ill-treatment of British prisoners of war captured...
Catalogue reference: FO 383/497
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- FO 383/497
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1919
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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Ill-treatment of British prisoners of war captured by Germans in East Africa: despatch from the Government of India dated 4 June 1919 containing a statement by Lance Baik Sar Baz of the 57th Wilde's Rifles.
Response of Prussian Ministry of War to complaints of conditions at prisoner of war camps, including:
- Elbingerode prisoner of war camp.
- Report on typhus epidemic at Wittenberg prisoner of war camp.
Execution of Captain Charles Fryatt, former master of the Brussels:
- English translation of German report on the trial and execution of Captain Charles Fryatt, for alleged offence of having attempted to ram a German submarine.
- Correspondence from the Foreign Office to the Political Intelligence Department in an effort to trace a pamphlet on the death of Captain Fryatt.
- Copy of Admiralty order regarding the conduct of British merchant ships when attacked by German submarines.
Halvidir Salim Khan of the 57th Rifles: statement regarding his ill-treatment by the Germans whilst a prisoner of war in East Africa.
Mrs Gertrude Muller: letter testifying to the brutal treatment of British prisoners of war and their confinement to asylums, offering to send the addresses of the asylums.
Babaji Bhiva Salekar of 101st Grenadiers: statement regarding his ill-treatment by the Germans whilst a prisoner of war in East Africa.
Despatches from the Governor General of South Africa on the administration of relief to enemy subjects in German East Africa.
Code 1218 Files 7 (papers 6159-end)-16
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- Files 7 (pp.6159-end)-16
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