Despatches from Leslie Probyn, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/289...

Despatches from Leslie Probyn, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/289 as well as letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals during 1916. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices (much of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 28/288-290) is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (movements of masters of interned German vessels, German passengers carried by Brazilian Lloyd Steamers);
• Crown Agents (original designs of new Barbados stamps for the King's collection, issue of notes by Royal Bank of Canada, lodgings at Oxford University for Barbados scholar C H Clarke);
• Privy Council Office (petition from J H Inniss re dismissal from police force, petition from Herbert Lewis asking for passage to Sierra Leone in view of lack of employment for him in UK);
• Foreign Office (shipment of sugar, movements of German Mr A Gibson, internment of Arthur Fanto and Norberto Horta, arrest of Fritz Seefeldt, reports of US consul on internment camp at Glendairy with list of 58 internees, release of Don Moises Valero and Ignaz Klassitch, alleged ill-treatment of Alexander Prescott at Guatemala, case of Alexander Best against master of the Lizzie M Parsons, case of William Bonnelman [previously named as Wilhelm Heinrich Bommelmann], imprisonment of Edmund T Jones at Washington DC);
• Board of Trade (transfer of schooner W C Silver to Dutch flag, transfer of schooner Etta E Lanner to French flag, return of seaman S Phillips to Barbados [with list of advances to named members of the crew of the Liberia], desertion of seamen from foreign ships);
• Treasury (intestate estates);
• War Office (arrest of Norberto Horta, transport and maintenance of invalids, embarkation of families in transports [concerning Major Martin]

• Colonial Office (Mr Hulse purser of SS Vauban alleged to be pro German);
• National Philatelic War Funds Auction (used postage stamps for auction);
• Social Welfare Association (death of James Smith formerly interned in Germany);
• General Post Office (deferred telegram service);
• Ministry of Munitions (steel goods for sugar factories, light railway, mechanical engineer at Water Department);
• War Trade Intelligence Department (intercepted letters);
• Board of Control (medical superintendent, Lunatic Asylum);
• Royal Commission on Sugar Supply (import of dark crystals from West Indies);
• Inland Revenue (income tax laws);
• Barbados Light Railway Company (sale of railway);
• Foreign Trade Department (Mr Seligmann's release from internment);
• Central Charities Committee (case of John Evans Small seaman released from internment in Austria)

• J M Codrington (ill-treatment of A Prescott);
• F G W Dean (medical superintendent of Asylum);
• F H Inniss (petition to the King re his dismissal from the Police Force);
• Edmund T Jones (appeal against his imprisonment at Washington DC);
• Herbert Lewis (petition asking for passage to Sierra Leone in view of lack of employment for him in UK);
• C J B Moneypenny (position of smaller colonies after the war);
• R N Mungall & Co., Liverpool (materials for repairs to sugar machinery and ships);
• Simeon Phillips (application for wages due from his service on SS Liberia);
• Arthur Sealy (circumstances of his resignation);
• Captain W H G Thorne (application for post of inspector general of police)

Topics

Welfare

Internment

International

Manufacturing

Labour

Mental illness

Railways

Army

Taxation

Trade and commerce

Caribbean

Europe and Russia

Pay and pensions

Policing

Weapons

Food and drink

Intelligence

Navy

Americas

Communications