Despatches from Leslie Probyn, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/291...

Despatches from Leslie Probyn, governor of Barbados, in continuation of CO 28/291 as well as letters received from various government offices (departments), other organisations and individuals during 1917. Despatches are described at item level; correspondence from Offices (much of which relates to the despatches sent from the governor in CO 28/291-292) is not. Correspondents and subjects covered are as follows: Offices (Government Departments):

• Admiralty (governor may give information to US consul concerning submarine or raider activity, dismantling of wireless on vessels in harbour, Sea Island cotton, wireless installation on vessels in port, 'strike promoters' on Brazilian vessel Corbello;
• Crown agents (gift of £20,000);
• Foreign Office (complaint of Mr E T Jones concerning unlawful imprisonment in USA, molasses for USA, release of Danish merchant ship Jungshoved, detention of neutral steamers, German civilian prisoners [internees] in Barbados, peonage in Amazon valley, 'strike promoters' and undesirable aliens on Brazilian vessel Corbello, enemy subjects possessing 'first papers' of US citizenship;
• Board of Trade (repatriation of seaman John Evans Small, re-import of goods returned to UK as unsuitable, case of seaman Herbert Lewis [with copies of orders under the 1906 Merchant Shipping Act for the conveyance of distressed British seamen]);
• Treasury (contribution of £20,000 to British government, contribution towards expenses of war);
• War Office (pay of medical offers in charge of troops in ships, staff officer of local forces, application of Dr D de C Boxill for military work, sugar estates of late Alexander Ashley)

• Prisoner of War Department (report on internment camp Glendairy, payment of Robert Parkinson's pension to his wife Bertina Parkinson);
• War Trade Intelligence Department (request to retain services of Mr E C Jackman);
• Customs House (withholding clearance from neutral vessels);
• Board of Control (appointment of Dr Belfield Grannum to post of clinical assistant at Long Grove Asylum, Epsom);
• Board of Education (application of Miss Iris de Freitas for permission to travel in order to take up a place at the University College of Wales);
• Colonial Bank (transfer of Savings Bank account to Royal Bank of Canada);
• War Trade Department (exports to French and other West Indian colonies);
• General Post Office (wireless station-commercial traffic with Trinidad)

• James Brereton, Panama (shooting of his son Gladstone Brereton by US soldier);
• Major F G W Deane (application for post of surgeon-general Trinidad);
• Sir James K Fowler (yellow fever epidemic and possible future research);
• Frame & Company (French butter for Barbados);
• Captain O L Hancock (extension of leave);
• Herbert Lewis (further on his case; repatriation to West Indies);
• Frederick St Aubyn Reece (estate of his son);
• Major W H G Thorne (appointment as inspector general of police);
• George Wallace, Seamen's Institute, South Shields (petition for financial assistance)

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