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Germany: Prisoners, including:
Captain Alfred Hoffman, German Commercial Attaché at Athens, including:
- Arrest of Captain Hoffman on charges of espionage, and internment at Verdala Camp, Malta.
- Internment at Ruhleben Camp of John Platt and Harry Faulkner as a reprisal.
- German memorandum requesting the release of Captain Hoffman in exchange for Mr Platt and Mr Faulkner.
Punishment of interned prisoners for attempted escape, including:
- German memorandum requesting that lighter sentences should be imposed, and threatening reprisals.
- British response to the German memorandum.
- Ensign Ernst von Schweinichen: information regarding his trial and imprisonment for attempting to escape from Dorchester Camp.
- Julius Zorn, confined at Rouen for attempting to escape: claim by the German authorities that he was not allowed to receive mail.
- British response that Mr Zorn had been released from confinement, and that no restrictions had been placed on his correspondence.
- Emil Schmidt: enquiry by the German authorities about his arrest and sentence, following his escape from internment at Alexandra Palace.
- Leutnant zur See Emil Lehmann and Georg von Streng: request by the German authorities for information on their attempted escape and subsequent punishment.
- Lieutenant G Greene, imprisoned at Crefeld Camp: letters regarding his sentence for attempted escape.
- Recommendation by the War Office for a review of sentences passed on certain German prisoners in Australia for attempting to escape (names in docket no.104451); subsequent remission of sentences.
- Second Lieutenant A C Collier: letter from his mother Mrs A H Collier about his sentence of imprisonment for allegedly attempting to escape from Hannover-Münden Camp.
- Lieutenant G S M Insall VC, imprisoned at Crefeld Camp: letter from his father, Mr Gilbert Insall, about his son's sentence of solitary confinement; information that Lieutenant Insall had been transferred to Ströhen.
- Lieutenant S E Buckley: opinions on British policy regarding the punishment of German prisoners for attempted escape.
- Mr Joynson-Hicks MP: parliamentary questions about the solitary confinement of certain British officers in Germany.
- Government of India: policy on the sentences imposed on prisoners for attempting to escape, and on their rights to send and receive correspondence.
- Captain G B Somerville, formerly interned at Crefeld Camp: enquiries about his whereabouts and welfare; information from his mother that he was interned at Ströhen Camp.
- Leutnant Otto Thelen and Leutnant Lehmann: enquiry regarding the sentences passed on them for attempting to escape from Chelmsford Barracks; confirmation that no proceedings had been taken against them.
- Army Council Instruction No 1209 of 1917: Prisoners of War - Instructions to Military Courts Assembled for the Trial of Prisoners of War.
- Despatch from the Australian Government on the sentencing of escaped German prisoners, with a list of names (in docket no.166294).
- German memorandum proposing the extension of paragraph 16 of the draft Hague Agreement on the punishment of escaped prisoners to include civilians; views of various government departments and of the Dominion governments.
- M J Murphy RN interned at Brandenburg, and Captain R May interned at Clausthal: discrepancies in the sentences which they received for attempting to escape.
- Rifleman Charles Reynolds, interned at Friedrichsfeld: enquiry into a report that he had been prevented from sending letters.
- Enquiry by the German authorities about the sentences passed on certain German officers who attempted to escape from Kegworth Camp.
- Michael Murphy and Joseph Appleby, naval prisoners interned at Brandenburg: enquiries regarding the reported death of Murphy and the trial of Appleby.
Provision of money to German prisoners held in France, including:
- Request by the Red Cross Society in Frankfurt for an increase in the sums allocated to prisoners.
- Response by the War Office that the restrictions were related to the private means of individual prisoners.
Dr Seitz, former Governor General of South West Africa, including:
- Proposal for his exchange with Brigadier General Clarence Bruce.
- Rejection by the German Government of the proposal: suggestion for Captain Tomlinson or Lieutenant Colonel McMicking to be exchanged in his place.
- Rejection by the British Government of these proposals.
Frau Klara Muche and her daughter Frau Elizabeth Gothein, including:
- Protest by the German authorities about the internment in separate camps of Frau Muche and Frau Gothein in Nyasaland.
- Information from the Government of Nyasaland that Frau Muche had been transferred from Blantyre, Nyasaland, to South Africa pending repatriation.
Internment of prisoners in German East Africa, including:
- Mr Theodor Meyer: complaint about the deportation of German ministers and missionaries from Nyasaland, and the conditions of their internment at Mombasa, Kenya.
- Information on the location of concentration camps holding German prisoners in German East Africa.
- Lists of British prisoners interned in German East Africa, together with the names of some British Indian troops (in docket no.50409).
- German memoranda requesting a list of camps where German prisoners were interned, the names of the prisoners and details of arrangements for the repatriation of civilian prisoners.
- Request by the German authorities for information on conditions at the camp at Ahmednagar, India, and for the evacuation of German prisoners from the camp.
- British policy on the repatriation of women and children from German East Africa.
- German memorandum requesting information on proposals to transfer German women and children from German East Africa to Pretoria, South Africa.
- Arrangements for the transfer of money by the German Government for the relief of German women and children detained in German East Africa.
- British memorandum on the problems of repatriating civilian prisoners due to German submarine activity.
- Request for the repatriation of the wife of Lieutenant von Gynz-Rekowsky, Fraulein von Steinaecker and the three children of the late Lieutenant Vogel from Nairobi, Kenya.
- Staff Surgeon Philipps: request for medical supplies to be sent to Wilhelmstal District.
- British memorandum denying the establishment of a new internment camp near Bombay, India.
- Question of the status of German currency in German East Africa.
- List of German civilian residents, organised by district (in docket no.145082).
- Request by the German authorities for the repatriation of German civilians transferred from German East Africa to Ahmednagar, India.
Code 1218 Files 7192-7520 (to paper 145512).
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