Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Mr E Wetherell, employee of the British Consulate...

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Details of FO 383/78
Reference: FO 383/78
Description:

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Mr E Wetherell, employee of the British Consulate General, Hamburg: enquiries and actions regarding payment of rent on his flat at Hamburg; arrangements for storage of his furniture.

Leopold Rosenthal and Willy Rosenthal, German subjects interned in UK: question of their release as a special case.

Captain W Wright, detained in Ruhleben: appeal by Lt-Col The Hon Sir Newton James Moore for his release.

Lieut G G Goschen, son of Sir Edward Goschen: question of his possible release on parole agreement not to fight Germany.

Estate of Charles Dutscher, native-born German, naturalised as a British subject in Sierra Leone.

Treatment of enemy property, including:

  • Guy B Muscott, British subject interned at Ruhleben: request for information regarding financial situation of his firm in Germany placed under state supervision.
  • Enemy firms under government supervision.
  • Government administration of enemy property.
  • Custody of enemy property in UK.
  • Treatment of British firms in Germany.
  • Supervision of enemy property in UK and colonies.
  • State supervision of enemy firms.

Alexander Bugler, interned in France as a German subject: letters and testimonials requesting action to be taken with French Government for his release.

Mrs Angelica Hall, at Widawa, Poland: enquiries regarding her whereabouts, and possible financial assistance.

Return to Rhodesia of two German nuns, Reverend Mother Ignatius Haslinger, and Sister Alacogue Moosmann: request for permission of UK authorities.

Heinrich Evers, German boy aged 18 years, sentenced by court martial for unsuccessful attempt to escape from Alexandra Palace camp: enquiry from Prussian Ministry of War if sentence may be served in a boys' reform school; remission of his sentence and transfer to Stratford camp.

Misuse of British passports seized by German authorities: allegation from Carl Dahm, British subject released from Ruhleben, residing in Clapham Park; transmission to him of personal documents received from his daughter in Germany, Miss Kate Dahm.

Otto Martin, naturalised British subject, c/o Messrs Hockley Ltd of New Bond Street, London: report that his name does not appear on Home Office list of persons naturalised in the UK.

Miss Edith Carter, British subject, now residing in Brussels following her release: investigations into her whereabouts, and the circumstances of her arrest and sentence.

Return of furniture and property belonging to French firm in Nimes, Saurel & Miaulet, left in the possession of Franz Heller, German subject now interned in the Isle of Man.

Carl Brown, escaped German prisoner: reported presence in UK.

Children of Reverend Andrew Goodall of Kilmarnock, in Germany with German Governess: enquiries whether salary could be remitted to governess, Miss Emilie Boshoff, and whether children can be released from Germany (Mary Goodall aged 17 years; Elsie Goodall aged 15 years; David Goodall aged 13 years).

Enemy aliens taken from Dutch steamers: question of precedence for exchange; includes list of German individuals (in docket no. 145278); passengers and crew removed from SS Potsdam.

Mr B Narasimha Iyengar (or Ayengar, or Aiengar), Indian student believed to be at Gottingen University: enquiries regarding his whereabouts.

Transmission of clothing for Gordon Flint, Australian residing in Germany.

Miss Odette Wallach, aged 7 years, French girl staying with her grandmother, Mrs Besselau, in Frankfort, Germany: request for permission to send her luggage.

Oskar J Overwag, British subject interned at Ruhleben: payments made on his behalf in a lawsuit, from British Relief Funds.

British Consulate General in Berlin: question of insurance of premises.

Mrs Henrietta Morgan, British subject formerly residing in Cologne, wife of David W Morgan, British civilian interned at Ruhleben: letter for transmission to Mrs Morgan from her landlord relative to rent due; report that landlord had been told to sell furniture; request for steps to be taken to safeguard certain papers; arrangements.

Funds for the Land Bank in South West Africa.

Relief of German subjects in South West Africa.

Code 1218 File 142166-148340.

Date: 1915
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: File 142166-148340.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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