Catalogue description Netherlands and Russia: Prisoners, including: NETHERLANDS: Jean Emile Marx, Luxembourg...

Netherlands and Russia: Prisoners, including:

NETHERLANDS:

Jean Emile Marx, Luxembourg subject interned at Oldcastle, Ireland, reported as being pro-German: authorisation for his release subject to restrictions.

Mrs Siegfried Schurmann, daughter of William Dawson of New Zealand, wife of a furniture manufacturer of Essen, believed to be in Holland: enquiries regarding her whereabouts; discovery of Mrs Schurmann in Barmen, [Germany]; request for permission to come to England.

Cornelius C M A M Pol, Dutch subject, detained in prison following arrival in UK from New York; sentence of six months imprisonment for offence against the Aliens Restriction Order.

Mr Oberlinks (or Oberlinkels), alleged Luxembourg subject, engineer removed from Dutch ship and detained at Ramsgate: release and arrangements for return to Luxembourg.

Count Bentinck, Dutch subject interned for service with German Army: request to recover a trunk from the UK; arrangements for Customs service to permit export.

H de Vries, detained in the Cameroons as a German subject: compensation claim for damages suffered.

Nicolas Wertheimer, detained Luxembourg subject: authorisation for release.

Andreas As, Dutch subject removed from Dutch vessel SS Hollandia following refusal to answer questions regarding his nationality: request for immediate release.

William Reinier Pieters, Dutch subject refused admission to the UK: request for permission to go from France to return to Holland via the UK.

Mr R Noack, German subject in Rotterdam: request for permission to come to the UK as anti-German and does not consider himself to be safe in Holland.

Admission to the UK of naturalised colonial subjects: question of permits being granted by British Consulate-General, Rotterdam; includes individual cases, J Isaucle Armand (a naturalised Canadian of Alsatian French origin), Mrs Emma Walter and four children (wife of a naturalised British South African subject), and Dr Jacob Frenkel (naturalised British South African subject of German origin).

Christian Leonardus Drossaers Junior, Dutch subject imprisoned in England: complaint against imprisonment and his treatment; enquiry and report into circumstances; report that he had been suspected of being a German agent.

J A Gybels, German spy, Dutch by birth: anonymous letter received by HM Consul-General at Genoa, giving information about him proceeding from Batavia to Holland; report of the detention of Gybels and his family at Suez.

Father A Hetting, Luxembourg subject: request to proceed to Bombay to take up work carried out by the German Fathers.

Mr J van Zwol (or Zwel), Dutch subject, First Officer on SS Caledonia: arrest at Hull; enquiries into circumstances; report that he had been charged under Defence of the Realm Regulations with offence of communicating to the enemy information regarding the movements of HM ships.

Abraham de Vries and Eduard Roosnek, Dutch subjects refused permission to land in the UK: particulars of cases.

Frans van der Steen, Dutch subject engaged in munitions work in Barrow-in-Furness: refusal for permit to return to Holland.

Visit to the UK of Dutch Labour Committee.

M J Ryken, Dutch subject: permission for journeys between UK and Holland.

Alexander Zarsky, Russian subject: refusal of permit to land in Holland.

Professor O Van der Stricht of the University of Ghent: request for permission to come to the UK.

RUSSIA:

Henning Martens, timber agent and exporter of Riga, held in the Isle of Man: enquiries regarding his nationality.

Landing of Russian reservists in the UK.

Wladimir Dmitrieff and Victor de Heintz, Russian subjects in London: application for special pass to return to Russia.

Mr L'Estrange Malone: translation of note verbale from Russian Government regarding him.

Request for release of an Austrian, Vincenz Meyer, detained in Russia.

Comforts for Austrian and German prisoners of war in Russia.

Karl Garde (or Carl Gaede), German-born British resident, interned in Russia: request for remittance to be sent to him.

Sinking of transport vessel Columbia: enquiries regarding Ivan Manchenko (or Manchenko), fireman.

Josek Przybyszewicz, Polish-born Jew, reported as being a German spy in London.

Remittance for Austrian prisoner in Russia: Dr Nemec.

Mr A Hauser, of Glamorgan: remittance for his mother, a Russian Pole in the occupied part of Poland.

Carl Dobbertin, German prisoner in Russia: enquiries from his wife.

Miss Harriette E Kennedy, reported as being the only British subject in Warsaw: enquiries from her family regarding her welfare and possibilities of return to the UK.

Registration of Russian Consul at Liverpool, Mr Kristy.

Ivan Mollisch (or Malysch, or Mallischa), alias Major von Kruger, Russian removed from Danish vessel SS Frederick VIII and sent to Edinburgh for detention: enquiries regarding his nationality; possibility of him being Austrian officer, Franziak Vlaj (or Franz Wlad).

Captain Eugen Wahler and Oberleutnant Franz Wlad, Austrian officers: internment in UK following escape from Siberia.

Franz Wlad, Austro-Hungarian 95th Infantry Regiment, detained at Edinburgh: Austrian Government request that he be treated as an officer; transmission of protest against his arrest.

Miss May Finn, at Mitau in Courland, Russia: enquiries from her sister, Mrs Mildred Mason of Canterbury.

Charles Jules Tsapp (or Zapp), interned at Oufa as a German subject: enquiries into his nationality, as claiming to be a British subject.

Miss Lucy Akid, British subject resident in Warsaw: enquiries regarding her welfare from her family in Manchester.

Mr H Paradies, of Hull: enquiry regarding how he may obtain news of his relations at Libau.

Mr Withenburg and his sister in Russian occupied territory: remittance from relatives in Cape Town.

Remittance to German prisoner in Siberia: enquiries regarding procedure; includes printed copy of Red Cross booklet (in French language), Bureau Central de Renseignements sur les prisonniers de guerre, Petrograd, 1915 (in docket no. 185326).

Relief of British subjects in Warsaw.

Leibisch Mendal Lassman, Russian Pole at Lodz: enquiries regarding procedure for sending him a remittance through the Bureau International, Berne.

Work of Russian Red Cross Prisoners Information Bureau: transmission of information booklet.

Prisoners of War in Siberia; transmission of Red Cross report on their condition; includes printed copy of booklet (in French language) issued following visit to prisoners' camps by Monsieur Chinkevitch (in docket no. 192594).

Mr Max Kulkes and family, at Libau: question of power of attorney.

Code 1229, code 1238 Netherlands: Files 52823-143623. Russia: Files 6535-199015 (complete)