Catalogue description Scandinavia: Prisoners, including: Herlofson's whaling station at Harris: exclusion of...

Scandinavia: Prisoners, including:

Herlofson's whaling station at Harris: exclusion of foreigners from region.

Alleged German spy, Hans Suhren, master of Norwegian ship in North Sea.

Gustav Alexander Smedegaard, German-born of Danish parents, interned as a prisoner of war in the UK: question of release and financial assistance.

Detention of Swedish seamen formerly of SS Nestor: Fritz Gustaffson and four others.

German subjects held in England: Alexander Heinrich Kullberg, Norwegian Vice-Consul at Cuxhaven, and wife, and Heinrich Adolf Held; requests for permission for them to return to Germany; medical condition of Mr Kullberg.

Swedish subject, August Melin: detained as prisoner of war on board Danish trawler Korsavina (or Karsavina), at Oban, Scotland; detention of crew of vessel apparently owing to an Admiralty order.

August Schvan, Swedish diplomat: biographical information; reports from the United States regarding his activities there, including lectures about the European situation and pamphlet entitled 'Permanent Peace Through World Citizenship'.

Application for landing at closed ports in the UK: request from Ásgeir Sigurdsson, British Vice-Consul at Reykjavik and fish exporter; also N M Berrie, Icelandic subject.

Detention of Swedish sailor, Gustav Adolf Ferm (alias Alfred Schouert), interned as a prisoner of war on the British vessel SS Saxonia at Southend-on-Sea: enquiries into circumstances and possible release; arrangements for repatriation; claim for compensation for his detention.

Arrest of Swedish artist, Rolf Johnson: enquiries into circumstances; report that he had been detained at Penzance on charge of espionage; later acquittal following trial, and claim for compensation.

Imprisonment of Ferdinand Wissing, Danish subject: remission of one month of sentence following representations from the Danish Minister, London.

Detention of a Danish seaman, Waldemar Alexander Bernhard Larsen, from captured German steamer Henriette Woerman in the Cameroons: enquiries into circumstances and instructions for release; claim for compensation.

Mr Lefolii, Danish merchant dealing in Icelandic goods: request for permission to embark at Leith for Iceland.

Johannes Poulsen, actor of the Royal Theatre of Copenhagen: request for permission to land at Port Said, Bombay, Colombo and Hong Kong.

Samuel Nicolaj Pedersen, cook on board Danish schooner Ørnen: detention at Templemore, Ireland; request for release following proof of Danish nationality.

Landing of Swedish missionaries in Bombay.

Detention at Gibraltar of Erik Helge Mõller, Danish subject: enquiries into circumstances and possible release; report that detained man was apparently Wilhelm Breitwieser, using false papers.

Reverend H Haugerud, Norwegian subject: request for permission to visit internment camps for prisoners of war in the UK.

Control of passengers from Newcastle to Bergen.

Charles Ossian Svanfeldt, former boatsman on German vessel SS Jeanette Woerman, detained in the Cameroons and brought to UK for internment: claim for compensation for loss of property, etc, following release as a Swedish subject.

Claims for compensation by two Swedish sailors, Fritz Natanael Gustafsson and Karl Victor Stern, following arrest and detention without wages.

Erich Munch, detained prisoner of war, claiming to be Norwegian subject by birth and parentage: application for release; report that he may be released to proceed to Paraguay; question of financial assistance.

British Aluminium Company: intention to import unskilled Norwegian labourers for their works in Scotland.

Alfred Andersson, detained as prisoner of war: instructions for release, as a Swedish subject.

John Alexander Lönnegren, Swedish subject in German service: proposal to visit England and France.

Claims for compensation by two Swedish sailors, Iwar Edward Hübner and Hjalmar Österman, following detention at Shrewsbury as prisoners of war.

Detention of crew of the Norwegian steam trawler Nestor: claims for compensation for illegal detention of Norwegian crew members, Anders Thorstensen and Halvor Halvorsen.

Scandinavian Sailors' Mission: application for issue of special passes for pastors in the UK.

German spies reported on vessels Sterling and Paris belonging to Messrs Olsen of Christiania.

Extraordinary certificates of domicile as evidence of Danish nationality:

Carl Gustav Carlsson, Swedish sailor in prison in Middlesbrough, sentenced to six months hard labour for having remained on shore after dark in a prohibited port: investigation into circumstances, and request for possible release.

Mr Grandjeans, Danish subject: enquiry from Mr A I Drew of Oxford regarding procedure for possible visit by Mr Grandjeans to stay with him.

Code 1230 File 544-101522.