Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Capture by the German navy of the Dutch SS Prins Hendrik...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Capture by the German navy of the Dutch SS Prins Hendrik, with a list of captured seamen from the First Royal Naval Brigade.

Decision not to ask the German Government for permission to use the German Embassy in London as a hospital for wounded British officers.

Mrs Antonie Whitwell: request for advice and funds from her husband in England in connection with their steam laundry in Lübben, Germany, including:

• Reply from Mr John Whitwell, asking for his wife to return to England from Germany.
• Inventory of the contents of the steam laundry.
• Decision by the Prisoners of War Department not to fund the cost of the removal of machinery from the laundry.

Enquiry by the German Government about the legal status of German civilians detained in England and France, and their liability to the military laws of those countries.

Arrangements for the repatriation of German civilian prisoners from East Africa and Nyasaland (Malawi).

Fraulein Wilhemine Berlage from Oldenburg, Germany: enquiry regarding the safety of the possessions which she left in England, where she had been employed as a domestic servant in London.

Request for a copy of the death certificate of Mrs Julia Sherard Shaefer (née Coleman) from the German Government, in connection with the administration of her estate.

Decision to postpone a proposed White Paper on comparative diets in British and German prisoner of war camps, pending the completion of a report by Dr Taylor on food supplied in British camps.

Protests and enquiries received by the Prisoners of War Department, following a ruling by the Central Prisoners of War Committee that all parcels for civilian prisoners should be purchased, packed and despatched by authorised organisations.

Request by the War Office for copies of white papers relating to the services of Royal Army Medical Corps officers in prisoner of war camps in Germany.

Detention at Ruhlaben Camp by the German authorities of Harry Faulkner and John Platt as a reprisal for the arrest by the British authorities of Captain Hoffman, Commercial Attaché at the German Consulate at Athens.

Allegations of the ill-treatment by the German authorities of missionaries and civilians in East Africa.

List of German subjects, interned in Camps 2 and 4 at Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, requesting a decision to be taken regarding their national status.

Proposal by the German Government for a reciprocal agreement with the British Government on the repatriation of prisoners, transferred to Switzerland, who had since recovered.

Protest by the German Government about postal regulations governing the transmission of books and letters to German civilian prisoners interned in Australian and South African camps.

Request by Mr Julius Neuhaus, a German subject interned at Pietermaritzburg Camp, to be allowed to return to Southern Rhodesia, including:

• Decision by the Rhodesian Government not to allow Mr Neuhaus to return.
• Report on the welfare of Mrs Neuhaus.
• Conditions under which the Rhodesian authorities would allow the return of German or Austrian subjects.

Request by the Romanian Government for information on reciprocal agreements between the British and German Governments regarding the release of civilians.

Peter Hauprich: enquiry regarding the welfare of his son, Private Johann Joseph Hauprich, captured by British forces at Champagne in France in 1915. Includes a note from the Prisoners of War Information Bureau on procedures for handling enquiries regarding missing enemy subjects.

Letter from Lord Newton of the Foreign Office to Mr Paul Grand d'Hauteville of the Prisoners' Bread Bureau, Berne, in recognition of his services.

Decision by the Army Council not to allow Mr E Scholer, a German prisoner at Verdala Barracks in Malta, to visit his sick wife in Switzerland.

Mutiny at Knockaloe Internment Camp No.3, including:

• A report on the incidents by the Camp Commandant, Lieutenant Colonel F W Panzera.
• Judgments of the subsequent military court, at which Arnold Beirich and William Wunderle were sentenced to twelve months imprisonment with hard labour, and Otto Kohler was sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour.

Parliamentary question by Mr Ashley requesting information on the numbers of British prisoners held in Germany, and German prisoners held in Britain. Includes totals for both groups of prisoners.

Request by the Consul General in Cape Town, South Africa, for permissions for payments to be made to employees of enemy firms from the firms' sequestrated funds.

Willy Theel: protest about his internment in Amherst Camp in Canada, alleging that his arrest was illegal as he was a passenger on board a neutral ship, the Norwegian steamer Starkad.

Decision not to intern German subjects from the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in British prisoner of war camps in Australia, following a letter from Karl Martin alleging that he and many other German subjects would prefer the option of internment.

Letter by Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Provost of Dublin, printed in The Times of 20 November 1916, recommending a free exchange of prisoners between Britain and Germany.

Complaint from Pastor E Sprengel about the internment and treatment of himself and other Lutheran pastors in Pietermaritzburg Camp in South Africa. Includes the report of an interview with Pastor Wagener in the camp.

Copies (in French) of telegrams from the Swedish Post Office relating to arrangements for forwarding parcels from Germany to German prisoners in the United Kingdom via Sweden.

Denial by the British Government of a policy of excluding certain classes of German prisoners, such as engineers or skilled workmen, from repatriation as civilians unfit for military service.

Arrangements for the repatriation of wives and children of repatriated Germans over 45 years old.

Reports of alleged German atrocities in German East Africa (Tanzania).

Arrangements for the repatriation of German subjects from Australia by the German Government.

Extract from a letter from the Consul General in Rotterdam about allegations of maltreatment of German prisoners in the United Kingdom.

Request by the Town Clerk's Office for a certificate of existence of Private Harold Sugden of the Army Service Corps, in connection with a prosecution for bigamy against his wife. Private Sugden was last recorded in August 1916 as a prisoner at Friedrichsfeld, Russia.

Proposal for a reciprocal agreement between the British and German authorities for the periodic transfer of officer prisoners to different camps, following a suggestion in a letter from Archdeacon Nies.

Arrangements for the delivery of a copy of the will of Major Freiherr Adolf von Brandis to his daughter, Frau von Boemcken, Geman East Africa (Tanzania).

Request for information on the incidence of tuberculosis among British prisoners in Switzerland, following allegations of the deliberate infection of prisoners with tuberculosis germs.

Claim by the British Government for reimbursement of the costs of repatriating German missionaries connected with the Schleswig-Holstein Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Society.

Code 1218 Files 206282-241798.