Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Cases for consideration for possible exchange or release of prisoners, including:

• Professor H S Macran, of Dublin University, held in Berlin: proposed exchange for two Germans interned in England.
• William Medwin Harris, interned in Germany: possible exchange with Fritz Heinsen, interned at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• Grant Watson, late HM Secretary of Legation in Brussels: reports of his arrest and detention in Berlin.
• Felix Jeffes, British Vice-Consul, Brussels: report of his arrest; possible exchange for German internees in England; also papers concerning his father, T E Jeffes, HM Consul at Brussels; enquiries from his wife, Jeanne Jeffes, c/o British Legation, The Hague.
• Mr C F Just, Canadian Trade Commissioner at Hamburg: detention in Hamburg; negotiations regarding possible release or exchange.
• Brigadier-General C E Bradley, interned in Germany: request from his wife, Alice Bradley of London, that he be considered for exchange or release on medical grounds.
• A J Nelson Hawkins, interned at Ruhleben following arrest at the outbreak of war when working for South African Government as an Inspecting Engineer in Hanover: request for possible exchange.
• Vice-Consul Walker of Lille: report of his arrest and internment at Ruhleben.
• Dr Werner Kieschme, German Consul, interned in England.
• Release of certain Germans on grounds of ill-health: request for names.
• Exchange of prisoners unfit for further service: case of Brevet-Major H C Johnson, King's Royal Rifle Corps.
• Carl Menke, German Honorary Consul: alleged detention.
• Detention in Egypt of four German consular clerks: Hermann Paulus, Franz Blasig, Wilhelm Schulz, and Ludwig Thomas.
• Proposed exchange of consuls (Grant Watson, Thomas E Jeffes, and James E Walker); also C F Just, Canadian Trade Commissioner.
• Proposed exchange of Dr A Haber, Governor of German New Guinea, and Colonel John H Stratton, retired, in Bad Nauheim, Germany.
• Mr Morrison-Cleator, HM late Vice-Consul at Mannheim: papers concerning his death in hospital at Ruhleben camp; also cases of German consular officers detained in England, Mr von Jena, Baron von Ow-Wachendorf, and Dr Guradze.
• Winthrop P Bell, of Halifaz, Nova Scotia, interned in Germany: enquiry from his father, A M Bell, regarding possible exchange with a German non-combatant in Dorchester camp.
• Exchange questions with German Government: memorandum on position up to end of 1914.
• Detention of Mr Rolfes, German Consul at Port Elizabeth and treatment of E F Ottens, German Vice-Consul at Salisbury.
• Colonel Paul F M Baddeley, British Pro-Consul at Bruges: reports of his arrest and his being held prisoner at Giessen, Germany; also his daughter, Mrs Vincent Smith.
• Exchange of medically unfit and invalid civilians: enquiry regarding possible intervention of the Pope.
• Lieutenant J B Butt, King's Own Light Infantry, wounded prisoner of war in Germany: request for exchange as an incapacitated military prisoner.
• Major Ponsonby-Shaw, retired British officer held in the officers prison at Celle: possible exchange for Major Ritter, German officer detained in England.
• Wounded British officers in hospital in Maine, and unfit for further military service: possible exchange; Captain Ian McDonald Henderson, London Scottish Regiment, and Captain Theodore Young Dobson, Royal Naval Division.
• Colonel Hemans, retired British officer held in Germany with his wife: request for their release or exchange.
• Invalids in Germany: lists of individuals.
• Herr Grimm, Secretary, German Consulate, Bombay: possible exchange.
• Private G Austin, incapacitated prisoner of war: request from his father, T H Austin of Swansea, that he be considered for exchange.
• Exchange of consuls: possible arrangement whereby repatriated Germans shall be prevented from serving with German forces.
• Exchange of medical personnel: detention of Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) officers and men, and sanitary service personnel.
• Lieutenant R S Moore, incapacitated prisoner of war in French hospital: request from his father, Lt Col R Moore of County Kildare, that he be considered for exchange.
• Proposed exchange of bankers: British subjects, S H Urry and L M Sharp, managers of the Hamburg branches of the Bank of British West Africa and Elder Dempster & Co.
• Eric Sloan and Lawrence Sloan, prisoners in Germany: proposed exchange for Walther Steffen.
• Mr St G H Philips, assistant in Hamburg branch of bank, interned at Ruhleben: possible exchange.
• Colonel de la Fontaine, in Germany: enquiry from M J Albion of Geneva.
• General Leman, detained as a prisoner in German: request from his daughter to the King of the Belgians to assist in his possible release.
• Rudolf Krueger, late of German Consulate, Alexandria: report of detention and possible exchange as an invalid.

Code 1218 File 85 (to paper 11519).