Catalogue description Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposed exchanges, including: Return of Prince and...

Germany: Prisoners, including:

Proposed exchanges, including:

• Return of Prince and Princess Salm Salm to Germany: their thanks to the Governor of Gibraltar and Lady Miles.
• W S Cohn, a chemist, interned at Nauheim, and Henri Brass, interned at Pietermaritzburg.
• General Bradley, interned in Schloss Celle, and Captain von Feilitzsch.
• Major Ponsonby Shaw, interned at Schloss Celle, and Hauptmann Baron Karl Hermann von Leonhardi (who retired from the Saxon Grenadier Guards in July 1872).
• Dr Winthrop P Bell, Canadian subject interned at Ruhleben, and John A Fahr, German subject interned at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Georg Täufert, Administrator of the New Guinea Company, interned in Australia, and Captain Archibald Montgomery-Campbell, interned at Schloss Celle, Hanover: report that Army Council not in favour of exchange; letter from Mrs Leather Culley to Viscount Grey of Falloden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on Montgomery-Campbell's behalf.
• Captain J M Henderson, interned in Germany.
• M S Pritchard, interned at Ruhleben, and Ernst Goetz, interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire.
• P H Anderson, interned in Germany.
• German Government willingness to exchange Reginald Thompson, General Bradley and George Fergusson with von Bülow, von Trotha and Professor Etscheit.
• J H Wiglesworth of Pembroke College, Cambridge, interned at Ruhleben: view that exchanges of individual civilian prisoners were not practicable.
• Captain R A Reddie, interned at Celle, Oberleutnant Ludwig Mayr, and Major B H Chetwynd-Stapylton.
• Captain D Baird-Douglas, interned at Crefeld, and Lieutenant Otto Voss, interned at Donington Hall, Derbyshire.
• W S Cohn, interned at Ruhleben, and Mr Brass, interned in South Africa.
• Leopold von Plessen, interned at Wakefield, Yorkshire.
• Walter Butterworth, Hon Secretary of the Manchester Liberal Federation, interned at Ruhleben: complaint by him that he is detained while younger Englishmen are allowed special exchange.
• Captain F W Hamilton, retired officer interned at Schloss Celle, and Baron Leopold von Plessen: transfer of Captain Hamilton to Bad Blenhorst.
• R Herdman Pender, interned at Ruhleben: representation by his father, William Pender, bookbinder of Edinburgh, for an exchange; encloses copy of Prisoners' Pie, Ruhleben New Year 1916 prison magazine, of which his son was an editor (docket no. 80395).
• William Roylands Cooper, interned in Germany.
• Proposed exchanges of W G Shiell for S J Bieber, interned at Wakefield, and A L Lean for James Zutrauen, interned at Wakefield.
• George Frederick Fischer, interned at Ruhleben.
• Colonel Rawdon Ward, interned at Schloss Celle, and Dr Schultz, former German Governor of Samoa: non-agreement of Army Council with transfer.
• Carl Fuchs, British subject interned in Germany, and Max Dauthendey, German poet in Java.
• Douglas Munro, interned at Ruhleben, and Carl Müller, interned at Douglas, Isle of Man.
• British and German retired officers interned in Germany and British Empire.
• Lieutenant (retired) Lystem-Smythe and 'Hauptmann der Reserve' Adolf von Carlowitz-Ottendorf, interned at Pietermaritzburg.
• Internment of retired officers in Switzerland.
• Captain Reynolds, interned at Wahmberk, and Wolf von Trotha, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire.

Code 1218 File 885 (papers 23577-176677).