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MPK 1/272/2 · Item · 1917
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German East Africa Karagwe: map of north-west Tanganyika (now Tanzania), with Lake Victoria to the east, and boundary with the Belgian-controlled area (now Rwanda) to the west; contours, rivers, swamps, tsetse fly areas, towns, railways and roads are indicated. Reference table. Scale: 1 inch to about 5 miles. [Printed by] Ordnance Survey, August 1917.

FO 383/287 · Item · 1917
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Agreement for the transmission of a letter from the Knockaloe Prisoners Aid Society to the German Government. Johann Hermann Hahn: authorisation for his release to Denmark. Private Edward Pinney: investigation into the circumstances of his death at Langensalza Camp, including: Cause of death given as meningitis by the German authorities. Statements by Corporal H Drewitt and Trooper A McFarlane on the circumstances of Private Pinneys death. Memorandum to the German Government requesting an official investigation. Statements by various British prisoners (names in docket nos.50869 and 75249). Report of the German investigation. Effects of long-term internment on prisoners, including: Mrs Anna Burrows: request for the transfer to Switzerland of long-term prisoners. Depositions provided by Captain A W Colley and Lieutenant R E Barnes. Recommendation by the Admiralty for the repatriation of prisoners who had been in captivity for two years or more. Regulations on the sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor in internment camps in the UK. Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck and Mr Peto: parliamentary questions on the exchange of long-term prisoners. Memorandum on the effects of continued imprisonment. Sir Henry Lunn: extracts from a letter from his son, Hugh Lunn, interned at Karlsruhe Camp. Copy of a telegram to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig concerning the transfer of long-term prisoners to a neutral country. Memorandum to the German Government recommending the transfer to a neutral country of prisoners interned for two years or more. Captain Button: request by his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Button, for his transfer to Switzerland. Sir John Lonsdale and Mr HumeWilliams: parliamentary questions about the response of the German Government to the proposal for the transfer of prisoners. Captain J Johnston Watson, interned at Augustabad: report that the text of the British proposal was being displayed in prison camps in Germany. Captain Graham Toler: request by his wife for his transfer to Switzerland. Request from the Italian Embassy in London for details of the proposal. Treatment of British and African prisoners in German East Africa, including: List of British prisoners released from Tabora (in docket no.9885). Reverend Ernest F Spanton: extract from an interview with him in The Times of 30 December 1916 on the ill treatment of British prisoners. Reverend H A Keats: evidence on the treatment of prisoners. Reverend Ernest F Spanton: report on the conditions of interned prisoners. Mr James Scott-Brown: report on his experiences as an interned civilian. Typescript articles from The Times and The African Mail on the ill treatment of prisoners; agreement by the German Colonial Office to investigate the charges. Sworn statements by various witnesses (names in docket no.103223). Lieutenant V Sankey, interned at Dar es Salaam: letter from his mother, Mrs May Longe, on the conditions of his internment. Riflemen Murphy and Nicholson: report on the circumstances of their deaths. Private George Flood: report of an interview with him. Rifleman Nicholson: various witness statements (names in docket no.150796) relating to the circumstances of his death. Reports on the Treatment by the Germans of British Prisoners and Natives in German East Africa , parliamentary command paper [Cd. 8689], Miscellaneous No. 13 (1917). Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: proof copy of a report on the treatment by the German authorities in German East Africa of British civilian prisoners of war. Decision not to bring charges against the German prisoner Volhamer in connection with the death of Rifleman Nicholson. Theodore Kroell, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: decision that he could not be repatriated to the USA instead of Germany. German memorandum on the typhus epidemic at Gardelegen Camp, with an article (German language) from Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of 17 December 1916. Leutnant der Reserve Otto Schultz: report of his death at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. Lieutenant R F Gore-Browne, interned at Stralsund: request from his father, Mr F Gore-Browne, for his exchange for a German prisoner. Wilhelm Dröge, interned at Liverpool, New South Wales: question of compensation for an injury sustained while working in a sawmill. Mr Richard Wolf Gordon, a British subject resident in Bavaria: arrangements for the payment of his pensions from the Probate Registry and the Government of Nyasaland. Statement by various German prisoners (names in docket no.10961) on their treatment while being transported from Chinde to Beira on SS Ipu. German memorandum on the payment of relief funds to German nationals. Code 1218 Files 8591-11299.

FO 383/402 · Item · 1918
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Capture, trial, sentencing and imprisonment of individual prisoners of war: Sentence passed on eleven British prisoners at Clausthal for attempted escape. Trial of ten British prisoners at Hameln charged with stealing parcels of other prisoners. Trial of Percy Sainty at Munster for assault. Arrest of Captain Mapplebeck and Lieutenant Thompson at Schweidnitz. Trial of Joseph Tait at Frankfurt. Trial of Private Daniel Aitken at Cassebruch. Trial of Lieutenant Arthur Hicks at Coburg. Trial of Lieutenant John Parker at Coburg. Trial of Edward William White at Brandenburg. Notification of impending trials of German prisoners. Trial of John Clancy at Schneidemihl. Trials of Private E Scott and S Willoughby. Trial of George Booth at Munster. Sentence passed on Leuitenants Wainwright and Butterworth. Case of D C Birch, Royal Air Force, interned at Hozminder Camp. Trial of Rovert Newing and Charles Pelle at Munster. Case of Private Richard Webb, interned at Soltau. Trial of James Deuce at Berlin. Trial of George Lowe at Gorlitz. Trial of Edward Platt in Berlin. Trial of John Clark in Berlin. Trial of Private James Roberts at Hanover. Sentence of imprisonment on Private T Andrews. Trial of Arthur Barville at Minden. Case of Lieutenant A V Edwards, 9th Royal Fusliers. Trial of Lieutenant William Spencer in Berlin. Trial of Private T Andrews, 1st Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Case of H M Rushworth. Case of Private E Vokins and Private W Farish. Trials of Privates Rudd and Fowler at Altona. Trial of Lieutenant Sissen at Frieburg. Trial of Walter Bridges and comrades at Cohn. Trial of William Gunning at Stuttgart. Appeal of Captain Mapplebeck and Leiutenant Thompson. Trial of Lieutenant Edward Edwards at Hanover. Case of Corporal J R Henshaw and other British Non-Commissioned Officers. Trial of Josef Topliss at Ausburg. Prolonged arrest of Leiutenant Boumphrey. Sentence of Lieutenant H D Hamilton. Procedure for disciplining German civilians in the UK. Trials of James Bendell and John Green at Posen. Trial of Richard Hill and comrades at Munster. Trial of Private Midgley. Trial of Lieutenant D C Birch, Royal Air Force. Case of Private W Gibson, awaiting trial at Meschede for attempted murder. Trial of Leiutenant Gerald Castelli at Schweidutz. Trial of Herbert Jackson at Minden. Trial of Colonel Carr Evonny de Correquer at Mainz. Liberation of British Prisoners of war condemned to long sentences. Trial of Ernest Gordon Batten at Stuttgurt. Case of Sergeant Major Davey Smith. Trial of John Spalding at Casse.l Trial of Arthur Haughty at Giessen. Trial of Charles James Lovelock at Geissen. Trial of Victor Gasson at Munster. Notification of a pending trial against Captain Batty-Smith. Trial of Arthur Greeves at Munster. Trial of John Day. Trial of Arthur Davies at Munster. Trial of David Johnson at Torgau. Trial at Captain Sanderson at Frankfurt. Trial of Leiutenant Philipp Gow and comrades at Freiburg. Trial of Lieutenant Norman Knight at Hanover. Trial of John Scott at Coblenz. Trial of Joseph Dobson and comrades at Frankfurt. Appeal of James MacAssey at Frankfurt. Case of Private David Cruickshant at Wehlheiden. Trial of Corporal J R Henshaw at Hameln. Trial of Allen Baker. Trial of William Fowler at Hamburg. Trial of Alfred Harris. Trial of Charles Hazlehurst and Ernest Hammond. Trial of George Lowe. Repatriation from Germany of Chaplains to the Forces, Reverend A Grant and Reverend C B Pike. Case of Anton Witte, interned at Alexandra Palace. Repatriation of Dr Heinrich Hadlich. Repatriation of Dr Ludwig Stoll. Repatriation of Dr J C Curan. Repatriation of Reverend W Amcoats. Repatriation of Reverend Richard Bird, interned at Holzminder. Repatriation of Reverend W F Morris and Reverend A B Karney, chaplains to the forces. Repatriation of Dr Hans Rautenberg, German officer interned at Donington Hall. Repatriation of British navy chaplains. Question of mode of punishment for escape while under arrest in prison. Maintenance of dscipline amongst German prisoners of war interned in the UK. Repatriation of German doctors and ministers of religion. Repatriation of missionaries from the Gold Coast belonging to the Basel Mission. German medical personnel eligible for repatriation. Repatriation of missionaries at Alexandra Palace. Repatriation of German missionaries from West Africa. German missionaries from Togoland. German missionaries from the Gold Coast interned in the UK. Code 1218 Files 368 (papers 114636-end)-962.

FO 383/47 · Item · 1915
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Dr Schwabe, German officer killed in action on board the Emden : enquiry regarding his identity. Charles Lesimple, US Vice-Consul at Cologne: assistance given to British subjects in Cologne at outbreak of war. Dr Otto Luz, German reserve officer who left Panama at outbreak of war to join German Army, in detention camp on Isle of Man: German enquiry regarding alleged court martial for instigating revolt at Douglas camp; report that allegation was unfounded and Dr Luz had been sentenced for evasion of censorship regulations; request by Panama government for his release under guarantee of strict neutrality as his services were required in Panama; UK governments refusal to grant request. Mr Drummond-Hay, in Folkestone: house at Olive (or Oliva), Danzig; payment of rent; arrangements with US Embassy, Berlin, to continue payments until hostilities terminate. Messrs A Marx and Co, jewellers of Regent Street: payment of taxes to Germany; claim against company in respect of rent due on property in Germany; detention in Germany of owner, Ernest Marx, British subject; enquiry from his wife, Mrs M Marx of Maida Vale, regarding German authorities insistence that on release from Ruhleben he be forced to reopen his business in Homburg, Germany, for them to take half the takings. Edward Page Gaston, American resident of London: activities in Germany regarding transmission of parcels and luggage to prisoners, including: US authorities in Berlin reports of unsatisfactory and inefficient way he was carrying out work. Proposed press letter by US Ambassador, Berlin, warning public against Mr Gaston. Statement from US Ambassador, Berlin, with enclosures of statements from individuals regarding activities, including from Mr Gaston himself (in docket no. 21747). Hon Lady Augusta Peek, of Honiton, Devon: report that her son, Lieut R G Peek, 9th Lancers, and fellow prisoners at Münster, had not received parcels via Mr Gaston. Private Stanley Warren, Royal Naval Division, RNVR, interned at Döberitz: complaint that he had not received parcels and money sent to him by his mother in South Hackney via Mr Gaston. Complaints against Mr Gaston: consultation with Director of Public Prosecutions. Complaints against Mr Gaston received at US Embassy, Berlin. New circular issued 1 May 1915 inviting further funds for relief of necessitous prisoners, and guaranteeing forwarding of parcels of food for prisoners. Transmission of parcels to prisoners in Germany. Parcels whose recipients could not be traced: includes names of individuals (in docket no. 62872). Captain P E Lowe, West Yorkshire Regiment, prisoner of war in Germany: information from Mrs Lowe regarding delivery of parcels to him. Major R A Gray, 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, prisoner of war at Magdeburg: information from his wife, Mrs Gray of Camberley, regarding delivery of parcels to him. Press letter by James W Gerard, US Ambassador, Berlin, warning public against Mr Gaston: report that Morning Post was to be sued for libel; consultations regarding impending lawsuit, including communications with solicitors Messrs Lewis & Lewis, of Holborn. Money for British prisoners in Germany: list of beneficiaries with amounts due who cannot be traced (in docket no. 133289). Sums of money entrusted to Mr Gaston: includes individual names (in docket nos. 141944, 155735 and 200181). German colonial officers in Togoland. British subjects taken prisoner in German Africa: arrangements for correspondence and lists of names; includes lists of individuals (in docket no. 91773). Exchange of lists of prisoners in British and German colonies, Africa: arrangements. Repatriation of prisoners in India from German East Africa. Code 1218 File 1890-2325.

FO 383/66 · Item · 1915
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Effects of German colonial prisoners now at Stratford and in UK. Treatment of English naval prisoners on sunken German torpedo boat A2. Journey to Batavia of two ladies of German nationality: Mrs L Jenne and Miss M Bartens. T Andreae, prisoner at Knockaloe, claiming to be an English subject: request for documents to establish his case. Names of prisoners of war: German Government practice. R Button, deceased at Wittenburg: notification to his wife, Mrs Button, in Belgium; arrangements for return to UK of Mrs Button and family. Forged postcards from Quedlinburg: allegations regarding postcards purported to have been written by Private W Wheeler, prisoner of war at Quedlinburg; investigations into allegations, including original postcards. Tobacco for German prisoners of war. Deportation of German prisoners from Straits Settlements to Australia. Money sent to prisoners of war: limits and intervals allowed by HM Government for German officers and soldiers to draw money. Henry Thomas Martin, late interned civilian at Ruhleben, gardener to HRH Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia: request from his wife, Mrs Emily Martin, for confirmation of her husbands death in Berlin hospital; transmission of death certificates and private papers; arrangements regarding Mrs Martins intention to leave Germany. Mr Gutmann, British pro-Consul at Geneva: agency for finding missing officers in Germany; report and thanks for his work; includes printed table of portraits headed Queen Victoria Jubilee Fund Association for the relief of British subjects in distress at Geneva. Honorary Manager of Enquiry Branch: S Gutman, showing photographs and details of 28 missing British officers and French soldiers (in docket no. 69614). George Marcussen, civil prisoner in Germany: enquiry from his father, H Marcussen of Maida Vale regarding his whereabouts; report that he had been transferred from Ruhleben to Stadtvogtei following a detrimental remark about the German Emperor. Rev Paul Heyse, German military chaplain interned at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: protests against capture and internment by military authorities, and request for release. British subjects in German East Africa: missionaries interned since outbreak of war; includes lists of names of members of The Universities Mission to Central Africa (in docket no. 69886) and the Church Missionary Society (in docket no. 71933). Release of German missionaries in South Africa. A W Hill, British civilian at Ruhleben: enquiry from his father, Mr A Hill of Coventry, regarding possible exchange for German subject, Heinri Gruenwald, resident in Llandudno. Letters addressed to German prisoners from Cameroons: question of censorship. Alfonso De Blasio, First President of the Court of Cassation of Turin: letter regarding his daughter and son-in-law Edgar Fisher, German subjects in London. Erich Langen, member of German colony at Samoa: detention in Auckland following violation of military regulations. Treatment of prisoners of war in England: prohibition of receipt of German literature. Books for prisoners of war: question of censorship. Restriction on the receipt of books at Osnabrück, Gütersloh and Güstrow camps. Internment of German members of missionary societies. Leslie Spicer, British missionary employee interned at Ruhleben. Professor Marshall Montgomery, of County Down, Ireland: enquiries regarding rent of his flat at Giessen. Edward Petermuller, German civil prisoner at Lancaster: complaint from his sister, Bertha Petermuller of Upper Bavaria, regarding his treatment; request that he be medically examined. Students, including: Scheme proposed by Swiss universities in favour of students detained as prisoner of war. Treatment of student prisoners of war. Fourteen British students interned at Ruhleben: petition to resume their studies at German universities; includes list of individuals (in docket no. 151838). University students interned in Ruhleben: South African students; includes list of individuals (in docket no. 161555); individual case of Mr R J Kottich, government scholar. German university students in UK. University students detained as prisoners. Mr R W Wilcocks, South African student in Berlin University: request for certificate of diligence to continue his studies. Tobacco for British civilians in Ruhleben camp: arrangements for shipment and costs. British officers interned at Burg bei Magdeburg. Code 1218 File 67333-72738.

FO 383/67 · Item · 1915
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Exchange of British retired officers in Germany, including: Colonel Stratton, Lord de Ramsey and Colonel Hemans; enquiries, proposals and arrangements regarding possible exchange for German officers. Release of German officers, including Major Kremnitz and Erich Kurt Karbe from Wakefield, Hugo Lobst Falke (real name Hugo Lobst von Feilitzsch), and Kurt von Weller from Knockaloe. Brigadier-General Bradley. Major Ponsonby Shaw at Celle. Correspondence from infected camps in Germany. Douglas Rooke, Victoria Barracks, Windsor: enquiries regarding return of his property from Dresden. Canadian prisoners in Germany: includes list of individuals (in docket no. 73506); arrangements for distribution of comforts. Insurance of property and buildings of Germans in London, including German Embassy buildings. Rent due respecting German Embassy buildings in London. John Kretzschmer, German subject of Zehlendorf Mitte: request for documents relative to his deceased son, Hermann Kretzschmer, late of Australia, and his sons marriage to Euphrosine Mary Grieve, resident in Sydney. George William Crossan, teacher of boxing at Hamburg, imprisoned in Germany: trial and sentence for charge of espionage; two years penal servitude for attempting to betray military secrets. Red Cross visits to prisoners camps, including: Suggested reciprocal visits of belligerent representatives to prisoners camps. Inspection of prisoners camps by Red Cross ladies. Visits to prisoners camps: view that if permission granted then Red Cross Prisoners of War Committee would prefer for men rather than women to make visits. Fraulein Rotten: proposed visits to prisoners camps in UK; report that she is not a Swiss member of Red Cross but a German subject and a member of various committees in Berlin looking after foreigners in Germany. Visits to prisoners by members of Red Cross Societies: War Office opposition to proposal for exchange visits. Exchange of visits by Red Cross ladies to prisoners camps. Walter Gorlitz, German subject residing in Charlbury, Oxfordshire: enquiries regarding his property in German South West Africa. Medical treatment of German prisoners in South Africa, in particular at Pietermaritzburg. Encashment of English cheques: includes list of individuals and amounts (in docket no. 74698). Repayment of advance made in Germany: enquiry from African Banking Corporation Ltd regarding a cheque made out to an alien enemy, Mr J Zweigenhaft. Fund established for the purpose of cashing drafts upon English letters of credit, etc. Code 1218 File 72744-74698.

FO 383/298 · Item · 1917
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Germany: Prisoners, including: General Hindenburg: reported comments concerning German medical personnel. Mrs Mount: enquiries about various prisoners from the Royal Berkshire Regiment (names in docket no. 52683), with postcards from some of the prisoners. Mr and Mrs Britzel, transferred from Togoland to the UK: request by Mr Britzel for permission to resume his employment on the Togoland Railways. List (in docket no. 110810) of German officers and other ranks transferred to Switzerland between March and June 1917, with comments by the German authorities. British officers interned at Mainz Camp: problems encountered in cashing cheques and forwarding business letters. Jason Hagenbeck, a German subject: account of his escape from Colombo, Ceylon, to Aftonbladet, Sweden. Arrangements by the German authorities for the repayment of money owing to British prisoners who had been exchanged, transferred to a neutral country, or were deceased. Private A M Maclachlan, believed to be interned at Wahn Camp: enquiry from his sister, Miss Annie Maclachlan, about his welfare and whereabouts. Rudolf Albert Ebelt, a German prisoner: confirmation that he had been transferred from Australia to the UK, and would be repatriated to Germany when possible. Prisoners Aid Society, Knockaloe Camp: request that the sons of certain German prisoners (names in docket no.56236) serving in the British Army should not be sent abroad on combat duties; confirmation that they would be performing non-combatant tasks. Enquiries into the seizure of funds at the German Consulate in Cape Town by the Government of South Africa. Dr Kastl of Windhuk (Windhoek), South Africa: permission for the transmission of letters from him to the German Government. Treatment of British and Canadian prisoners in occupied territory, including: Information provided by various British prisoners (names in docket no.56528) on the withdrawal of letter-writing facilities while interned in hospitals in Germany and other occupied territories. Memorandum to the German Government requesting details of prisoners employed in working parties in occupied territory, with a list of various prisoners (in docket no. 99371) showing their dates of capture. Army Council Instruction No. 1208 of 1917, German Prisoners of War - Notification of Capture. Lists (in dockets nos. 179905 and 202901) provided by the Canadian Red Cross of prisoners believed to be held at Limburg Camp from whom no communication had been received. Complaints about the non-delivery of letters and parcels to Limburg Camp, with a letter from Lance Corporal Charles Bourne interned at Limburg. Enquiries regarding the non-receipt of mail by various interned prisoners, with a memorandum from the Newfoundland War Contingent Association. Memorandum to the German Government on the provision of postal facilities for interned prisoners, and the need for accurate records of prisoners to be kept. Lance Corporal W Brown, interned at Soltau Camp: copy of a letter stating that he had not received letters or parcels in the camp. Sergeant P F Notley, interned in France: copy of a postcard about the non-receipt of parcels. Lance Corporal F Peachey and Private F Lee, formerly interned in Belgium: extracts from interviews regarding restrictions on postal facilities during their internment. Articles in the British Press regarding the delivery of parcels to prisoners in Germany, including: Articles from The Times of 14 March 1917 and The Daily Mail of 12 March 1917 regarding food shortages for prisoners. Paul Grand dHauteville, Director of the Berne Bread Bureau: copy of a letter to the Editor of The Daily Mail on the distribution of bread to prisoners. Information from Mr Gerard, former American Ambassador in Berlin, that the reports of starving British prisoners were unfounded. Arrangements for payments to former employees of Messr Behn, Meyer and Company of Batavia, now interned at Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. Miscellaneous No. 9 (1917): Correspondence Respecting the Use of Police Dogs in Prisoners Camps in Germany , Parliamentary Command Paper (Cd.8480), May 1917. German memorandum proposing that retired officers under the age of 45 years detained in the UK and Germany should be awarded officer status: rejection of the proposal by the British authorities. Cadet Akerman, interned at Neustrelitz Camp: request by his father, Mr F Akerman, for an application to be made for his release; German memorandum stating that he could be exchanged in return for six interned German cabin boys. Mr E Wachtel, a German subject employed at Cape Mount Monrovia, Liberia: transmission of a bank draft to Mr Fred H Wachtel, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Yorkshire. Treatment of German prisoners captured from airships or submarines, including: German memorandum requesting assurances that these prisoners would receive the same treatment as other combatant prisoners. Assurance by the British Government that these prisoners received the same treatment as other combatant prisoners, with the exception of an initial period of detention for the purposes of interrogation. Enquiries regarding the whereabouts of two German submarine officers, Ehrentraut and Kiel; information that they were not being held as prisoners in the UK. Mr N M Cohen of Montreux, Switzerland, including: Recommendation by the War Office for enquiries to be made into his activities relating to prisoner exchanges. Copies of correspondence between Mr Cohen and Herr Theodor Wanner, the Swedish Consul at Stuttgart. Various letters from Mr Cohen offering his services to the British Government in connection with prisoner exchanges: decision not to accept his offer due to the official policy of opposition to individual prisoner exchanges. Correspondence regulations for prisoners, including: German memorandum threatening reprisals against certain British military and civil prisoners in response to complaints about the postal facilities for German civil prisoners interned at Berrima, New South Wales, Australia, and in certain camps in South Africa. Frau Marie Scherer of Heidelberg, Germany: complaint by the German authorities about a letter addressed to her from Cape Town, South Africa, which had been destroyed by the censor. British memorandum on the modification of certain regulations regarding the censorship of letters sent from Australia and South Africa. German memorandum alleging that no books had been issued to the German prisoners at Berrima. Code 1218 Files 52085-61961.

FO 383/80 · Item · 1915
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Mrs W D Burnyeat, daughter of a German officer, one of batch of 14 Bs interned in the UK in the interest of the safety of the realm: procedure of enquiries for British subjects on pink forms. Enquiries from persons in the UK as to affairs in Germany. Enquiries for British prisoners made direct to US officials in Germany and Austria; enquiries addressed to James W Gerard, US Embassy, Berlin. Enquiry for mother of an English girl: daughter, aged 15 years, of a Mrs Ackroyd by first marriage to British Army officer (now deceased), now married to a German subject named Muller in Berlin; enquiry from The Central Charities Committee , London, regarding the whereabouts of Mrs Ackroyd and the welfare of the child. W H Wills, English lecturer at Munich University, called up for service in the German Army: request that enquiries be made whether he is a free agent; report that he had apparently lost his British nationality. Administration of enemy property in the UK. Frau Pfeiffer, German subject at Port of Spain, Trinidad: request from German Government that she be permitted to return to Germany to undergo an eye operation. Corporal John Wilson, 8th Durham Light Infantry, interned in Rennbahn Camp, near Munster: report of his imprisonment in Germany on charge of inciting to mutiny against working in coke ovens; request for clarification of report that he had been shot. Message for transmission to manager of Equitable Life Assurance Society in London received at US Embassy, Berlin, from Mrs Doris Hirsch on behalf of her brother Georg Henschel of Berlin. Deaths in Germany of Frederick William Sawdon and William Schweitzer, British subjects: information regarding deaths and burial particulars, and forwarding of effects; enquiry from Sawdons widow, Mrs A Sawdon of Hull; statement from Dr Weiler concerning causes of their deaths at his sanatorium in Berlin. Italian prisoners of war interned in German East Africa: instructions to release twelve Italian subjects interned at Tabora and Morogoro. Transmission of securities to Germany: bonds, stocks and securities of diplomats. Property belonging to members of late German Embassy, left in the UK on outbreak of war: includes list of individuals with inventories of property (in docket no.186014). Letters from wounded British prisoners in Germany: arrangements for transmission of two letters by US Embassy, Berlin. Admittance of newspapers to prisoners camps. Flogging of two German prisoners at camp at Torrens Island, South Australia. Missionaries in British East Africa. Ordained clergy as combatants in German Army. Money for German captains detained in Malta. Reciprocal release of private luggage detained in England and Germany. Christmas presents for all British prisoners of war in Germany. Treatment of certain prisoners as officers. Treatment accorded to non-commissioned officer prisoners of war. Letter for transmission to Zambesi Navigation Company, London, received at US Embassy, Berlin. Liberty on parole of German officers captured at Garoua and interned at Medea. Transfer of £300 to German prisoner at Windhuk (Windhoek), South West Africa. Mrs Schafhausen, formerly of Catford, now in the United States: despatch of personal effects and luggage. Mrs Louisa Carpenter (née Ansorge), Indian-born British subject, now in Germany: application for remittance of funds from the UK. Rev H M Williams, late Chaplain of St Georges Church in Berlin: question of financial relief. Germans of Tsingtau Medical Corps detained at Knockaloe. Money surrendered in the Cameroons by L Maetze, German subject interned at Knockaloe: request for assistance for return of money. Interned German officers in the UK: request for copy of German instructions to interned officers urging them to escape. Julia E B Jacobitz, German lady resident of Bournemouth: petition for permission to continue residing in the town; issue of expulsion order. Edward Lebarron Johnson, interned in Ruhleben as a British citizen: claim to be a US citizen; includes copy of inquiry form with biographical details (in docket no.179837). Eugene Smith, interned in Ruhleben as a British citizen: claim to be a US citizen; includes copy of inquiry form with biographical details (in docket no.1798397): Proposed repatriation of German women at Belgaum. Lieut Henry Koch, German naval officer, escaped from internment at Norfolk, USA, detained as a prisoner of war in Edinburgh. Gilbert Graham, British subject at Ruhleben: promissory note regarding advance from British Relief Fund for treatment at Dr Weilers sanatorium, Berlin, to be recovered from sickness policy of Mutual Life and Citizens Company, of Sydney, Australia. Releases from Ruhleben: list of alleged British subjects whom German Government proposed to release; enquiry whether they should be supplied with passports; includes list of individuals with biographical details (in docket no.180647, and docket no.186382). Corporal Felton, 9th East Surrey Regiment, deceased: transmission of documents relative to his will. Julius Lubinski, interned at Ruhleben, released from internment amongst a batch of invalid civilians arrived in UK: emergency passport issued by US authorities in Berlin; investigation into his nationality. Recording of illnesses incurred by German prisoners during internment: adoption of German proposal. Nathan Golding, naturalised British subject domiciled at Bloemfontein, South Africa, civilian prisoner in Germany: enquiries regarding his whereabouts. Message for Deutsche Bank, Berlin, from Planters Association, Samoa. Major C Toogood, prisoner in Germany: enquiries from his wife, Mrs Toogood of Southsea, regarding his state of health and question of promotion to rank of colonel. Mr G Macrae, in Barcelona: enquiry regarding luggage lost in Germany. Lawrence S Ainsworth, of Wembley, Middlesex: enquiry regarding recovery of books taken from him at German frontier. Imprisonment of German sailors arriving at Bristol from Chile, for being in a prohibited area and having false passports. Code 1218 File 162400-183951.

FO 383/81 · Item · 1915
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Princess Pless, British-born wife of German subject: rent due on property in London. Payment of salaries to teachers detained in Germany. William Ring, German aged 14 enlisted in British Army: protest from father, Julius Ring in Knockaloe. Information supplied by Central Information Bureau: question of accuracy; includes lists (in docket no.184676). Parole: liability for military duties of German civilians; parole given by interned civilians; question of German Government attitude. Capture of German Military Police late of German South West Africa. British prisoners interned at Schloss Celle: Prof Carl Fuchs, naturalised British subject at Darmstadt: proposed exchange for Leopold von Plessen or Dr Etscheit. Otto Roese, in London, and F W Steege, in Ruhleben, officials of Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd: proposed exchange. L Barry Sloan (Lawrence Barrington Sloan) and Eric Barrington Sloan, in Ruhleben: information from father, L G Sloan of Kingsway, regarding their invalidity and possible repatriation; proposed exchange for Walther Steffens and another German. George Packe, in Ruhleben: enquiry from wife, Caroline Packe of Taplow, suggesting an exchange for a German in UK. Robert Melville, in Ruhleben: enquiry from son, Lieut Sydney J C Melville, that fathers name be added to list for exchange. Friedrich von Bülow, interned in UK: proposed exchange for Mr Fergusson, civilian internee in Germany. Private F Whittaker, 7th Battalion Canadian Regiment, imprisoned in Germany. Imprisonment of British soldiers for refusing to work: report of about fifty prisoners awaiting trail at Munster; request for investigation into sentence of Private A Todd, 7th Battalion Canadian Regiment; includes list of individuals (in docket no.201689). A E Melhuish of Purley: enquiry regarding sons personal effects at Leipzig. Mrs Flora Bray and Mrs Mary Taylor, returned British civilians from Germany: nationality. Dr Pfeiffer, detained at Holyport: forfeiture of medical status and detention as an ordinary officer prisoner. Joseph Cavanagh, tailor of Savile Row, London: rent of his shop in Berlin. Edward J Newman, British subject at Ruhleben, skipper of SS Cancer , taken prisoner by German torpedo boat which then sunk his vessel: claim for losses. Thomas Rushton, British civilian who died during journey home following release from Ruhleben: enquiries for information of relatives in UK; reply from daughter, Mrs Wray of Manchester. Books belonging to repatriated British subjects: arrangements for return to owners following examination by Postal Censor. Maurice Walker, interned in Germany: arrangements that letter addressed to Sennelager may be forwarded to him at Ruhleben. Capt Astell, Asst Provost Marshal to 63rd Division, in Doncaster: arrangements for communications with wife in Saxony. Christmas presents for interned prisoners. Transmission of money to German subjects in UK and dominions. German prisoners taken at Garua [Garoua, Cameroons]. Note verbale from German Government for transmission to Mrs Marie Grimshaw in Jersey. Louis Holcroft, civilian detained in Germany, suffering from heart condition: request for advice and assistance following sequestration by German Government of property at Nauheim. G Markesson, previously imprisoned in Germany: report of his re-arrest and he was to be tried by Civil Court; representations to be made that he is properly defended. Race Hunter, British civil prisoner in Germany undergoing treatment at Dr Weilers sanatorium: enquiries from father, A B Hunter of Leeds; further enquiries regarding his whereabouts as reported lost during journey from Flushing to Tilbury. George Hans von Chorus, German-born US resident, detained in Brixton Prison: possible release under guarantee he would remain in US as a neutral. Corp W Graham, RAMC, at Salzwedel: recommendation that French Government be informed of his work in assisting British and French wounded in camp. Dr Walter Gellhorn, detained at Edinburgh Castle: request for repatriation to Germany on grounds of medical qualifications. Retired and reserve officers detained as prisoners. Transmission of funds from SW Africa to Germany. John M Stirling, British subject released from Ruhleben, now in Cheshire: transmission of papers belonging to him; enquiry regarding recovery of amounts due to him by English companies. Miss Edith Emily Hoskins, British subject in Berlin: remittance of money from UK. Richard J Nowlan, prisoner in Germany: request from father, Thomas Nowlan, for authority to send amount required for payment of taxes. Requisitioning of Villa Beyerle, Cairo, for Red Cross purposes. R Meinig (or Mening), German subject imprisoned at Maidstone: protest against treatment. Red Cross Conference, Stockholm: transmission of report. Thomas Roberts: death in Dr Weilers sanatorium: circumstances, and transmission of property. British seamen and RAMC prisoners from Germany: arrangements for departure and Germans to be exchanged. Grikis and Schenk, invalid Germans in South Africa. Mrs Nellie Watt, of Glasgow: return from Germany; information regarding incidents, and enquiries what happened to Capt Reddie, Mr Parks and Mr Harty, with whom arrested. Mrs Harrison of Kent: arrangements to send her a letter received at US Embassy, London, containing dying message from her daughter. Allan Carruth Barr, released from Ruhleben as an invalid: position in respect of subsequently joining HM Forces. Alleged seizure of £700 from German Consulate General, Cape Town. German physicians detained at Edinburgh Castle: Dr Franz Thalwitzer, Dr Berthold Baneth and Dr George Richter; requests for release as Red Cross members. Promotion of officers from late German South West Africa: German Government note verbale enclosing list of officers promoted previous to capitulation; request for appropriate pay and treatment; includes list of names (in docket no.198165). Fritz Schlaeger, German prisoner on SS Canada , Isle of Wight: German Government request for information regarding reported marriage to Elly Assmann. Germans removed from Katanga province: enquiries regarding their disposal. Intercepted letter from Edward Gerhard Müller, prisoner at Wakefield, detailing his proceedings at Rio on outbreak of war and his experiences after capture. Execution of German merchant Schnade in Cameroons. Walter Roman, British prisoner at Ruhleben: report that German partner of firm named Messrs Hayn, Roman & Co was interned in UK and two British partners were interned in Germany; request for their exchange. Harris Kott, in Ruhleben: birth certificate. Adolf Kempe and August Arndt, German prisoners: punishments for attempted escape. Lieut Bier, reported death in Cameroons. Harold Whyte, British civilian released from Ruhleben, now in Wilmslow: request for financial assistance, and for family to be returned to UK from Bad Salzbrum. Fritz Holcroft, at Ruhleben: request for release following his brother Louis Holcroft. Enquiry regarding man named Haynes or Haines at Ruhleben: Edwin Haines of Tasmania. Armand Hintermann, in Ruhleben as a British subject: enquiry that his name had been put on list of persons not allowed to land in UK. Missionaries of Schleswig-Holstein Mission detained in East India. Code 1218 File 183953-201246.

FO 383/289 · Item · 1917
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Private H Joyce, interned at Düsseldorf: request for his transfer to Switzerland on health grounds. Leutnant zur See Karl Spindler, interned at Donington Hall, including: Extract from proceedings of the Prize Court in The Times of 3 February 1917 relating to SS Libau. Letter from Leutnant Spindler to the German Foreign Office. Decision by the German Government not to appoint a legal representative in the proceedings in the Prize Court relating to the capture of SS Libau. Confirmation that three prisoners who escaped from Islington Camp were not German subjects. Karl Schwarz and Paul Hübner: sentence to six months military confinement for escaping from Woburn Camp. Peter Gastreich, interned in the UK: refusal of his application for parole to visit his sick mother in Germany. Captain B L Erskine, interned at Clausthal: letter from the Foreign Office to his cousin, Mr Coningsby Erskine, explaining that Captain Erskine could not be granted parole to visit the UK. British memorandum on the preferential treatment accorded to certain classes of German non-commissioned officer prisoners. Complaints by German prisoners (names in docket no.15935) interned in British Honduras. Miss Christina Zimmerman, a German subject at Kingstown, Ireland: police report and statement by her sister, Marie Zimmerman. Missing British prisoners, including: Private Albert Smith, believed to be interned at Wahn: information from the German authorities that he had been transferred to Langensalza Camp. Captain P A Blythe: confirmation by Captain F Wolfenden that he had been captured at Guillemont, France. Lieutenant Erich Schiller: repatriation from India, including: Departure of Lieutenant Schiller with his wife and child from Bombay, India, to Durban, South Africa. Detention of Lieutenant Schiller at Pietermaritzburg Camp, and of his wife at Durban. Request by the German authorities for Lieutenant Schiller and his wife to be allowed to proceed to Germany. German memorandum requesting the release of Lieutenant Schiller and Visefeldwebel der Reserve Reepen as incapacitated prisoners. Captain Alan Vidal: comments on a German medical report on conditions at Wittenberg Camp during a typhus epidemic. Allegations of the existence of secret internment camps for British prisoners in Germany, with a list of names of witnesses (in docket no.16898). Detention of the master and crew of the American ship SS Hannametal , including: Statement by Captain Theodor Hannig, protesting about his detention at Berrima Camp, New South Wales. Information that the captain and three officers were German reservists of military age. Mr M F A Fraser: letter alleging that parcels sent to British troops and prisoners were being stolen or their contents removed within the UK. Carl von During, interned at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: decision not to allow the transmission of his request for German nationality to the German authorities. Archdeacon Edgar Nies: distribution of food and supplies to British prisoners in Bavaria, including: Approval of the scheme by the German Ministry of War. Suggestion for the provision of candles to provide light for wounded prisoners requiring hospital treatment. Decision by the British Government not to authorise the despatch of candles to Germany. Question of the reimbursement of expenditure incurred by Archdeacon Nies. Extract from The Sunday Times of 21 January 1917 on the confiscation of food parcels by the German authorities. Complaint regarding alleged delays in replying to enquiries about the deaths of Indian prisoners interned at Zossen, with particular reference to the case of Narbahadur Gurung. Rifleman T Miskelly: query regarding information on the date of his death provided by the German Government. Correspondence regarding work performed by German prisoners at the Camp School at Douglas, Isle of Man. Proposal for the repatriation from Egypt of German subjects over fifty five years of age. Transfer by the German Government of a sum of money owed to certain British prisoners (names in docket no.20722) who had been repatriated. Private C F Browning: notification of his acquittal at a court martial held in Germany. British memorandum protesting about delays by the German authorities in bringing prisoners to trial, with particular reference to the case of Private C F Browning and Lieutenant C L Campbell. Second Lieutenant Lancelot Maclean-Hayes: request by his wife in Berlin for financial assistance. German subjects interned on Somes Island, New Zealand, including: Report by Dr Glantz recommending the transfer of the prisoners to another internment camp. Proposed transfer of prisoners to the internment camp at Motuihi Island. German missionaries detained in German East Africa, including: Question of the repatriation of the missionaries. List of German missionaries in Togoland (in docket no.47847), and recommendations by the French Government for their expulsion. Question of Catholic missionaries of the Order of the Saint Esprit of Alsatian origin (list of names, with brief comments, in docket no.103876). List of Catholic missionaries in the Mwanza and Bukoba Districts (in docket no.141406). Bishop Munsch: recommendation that he should be interned. Views of the Governor of the Gold Coast on the deportation of German missionaries from Togoland. Deportation of all German male missionaries of military age from Togoland. List (in docket no.232691) of members of Catholic missions in Moshi District. Expulsion of Swiss nationals employed by the Basel Mission Trading Society from the Gold Coast. Code 1218 Files 14926-20848.

FO 383/200 · Item · 1916
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Germany: Prisoners, including: Proposal for release on parole of officers captured more than twelve months previously. Export from Germany of the furniture and effects of Sir Horace Rumbold, formerly Counsellor of HM Embassy in Berlin. Captain Henry Talbot, 11th Hussars, interned in Germany: enquiries as to his welfare and treatment. Sinking by submarine of the British steamship Swedish Prince , on loan to French Government, near Pantelleria, Mediterranean: crew landed at Palermo, Sicily; James Halloway (Master) and William Poole Knott (Chief Engineer) taken prisoner and interned at Grazbachgrasse, Graz, Austria. Doctor Eugen Mayer, German Medical Officer in former German South West Africa: query regarding his pay. Nathan Rössler: his request to send his wife and children a remittance. Sepoy Ghulam Khan, 59th Scinde Rifles: his death from tuberculosis at Halbmond Lager, Zossen, Germany. Alleged handcuffing of German naval petty officers. Mrs Frida Herke Wilms: her application for a remittance of money from England. Policy on despatch of picture postcards by prisoners. Flight Lieutenant R G A Baudry, Royal Naval Air Service: enquiries as to his welfare. Civilian prisoners interned at Holzminden, Germany. Doctor Ohnesorg, American who worked on British behalf in prison camps in Germany: Foreign Offices thanks to him. Leutnant der Reserve Brüne, German prisoner interned in Jersey, Channel Islands. Safeguarding of books and documents belonging to the German Consulate in Madras. Heinrich Röhland, German subject interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire: his request for release and repatriation. Repatriation of German consular officials. Pastor Johannes Oscar Louis Kruger, repatriated to Germany: request for his parcel of 77 sermons to be sent to him in Berlin. Hermann Meyer: permission sought for his letter to be sent to Imperial German Foreign Office. Two German officers interned at Carcassonne, France: permission given for them to be released from their parole given by them after their capture by British at Kamina, Togoland. Enlistment of Germans in British Army. Karl Boening, naturalised British subject of German origin: his wifes complaint about his enlistment in German Army; report that HM Government would not intervene. Code 1218 Files 163822-172268.

FO 383/74 · Item · 1915
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Germany: Prisoners, (with one docket regarding Mexico), including: Payments to interned British civilian from money deposited in German bank: case regarding Mrs Molony of Sloane Square, London. Relief afforded to Mrs Victoria Breese (or Viktoria Breese), German born widow of British subject, following her departure from Nuremberg for Canada via England: question of repayment of advance. Crops in Germany. C Carlebach, interned as a German subject but son of a naturalised British subject: application against internment. Mrs A Davey, of Kensington, London: question of payment of debts of her interned German lodger. Percy Dunsby: correspondence for James Mason, of Dover, forwarded via US authorities in Berlin, regarding request from Mrs M Dunsby of Danzig, British subject by marriage, to accommodate her son, Percy Dunsby, on his arrival in England; report that he had been detained by German authorities; eventual arrival in England of Mrs Dunsby with four children, including Percy; request for Mrs Dunsbys marriage certificate. Assistance to Russian prisoners of war in Germany. Appointment of Albert de Courcy as HM Pro-Consul at Progreso, Mexico: transmission of official seal and signature (in docket no. 112176 - docket cover headed Consular. Mexico rather than Prisoners, &c Germany). Food and clothing for Russian prisoners in Germany. Private J Smith, Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, interned at Ohrdruf: surgical operations for jaw wound; particulars of treatment and question of cost and payment. Prohibited literature sent to British in Germany. British subjects in Germany: enquiry from The Royal Society of Medicine whether any male British subjects in Germany between ages of 18 and 60 were still allowed to be at large in Germany. Godfrey Thomas, Attaché of the late British Embassy at Berlin: claim against him from a Berlin hotel for outstanding charges. Wages of master (Capt M Gringer) and crew of British prize ship, the German vessel SS Werner Vinnen : crew interned at Alexandra Palace, London; includes list of individuals showing wages and overtime due (in docket no. 109213). Ruhleben publications: request by L G Beaumont, vice captain of the Ruhleben camp, for copies of In Ruhleben Camp to be forwarded to Mrs Beaumont, Holyhead. Louis Hamilton, British subject of pro-German views: report regarding his background and activities. Rate of pay issued to RAMC [Royal Army Medical Corps] prisoners in Germany. Sir Horace Rumbold, Counsellor of HM late Embassy at Berlin: seizure by German authorities of two cases belonging to him; representations to German Government. Repatriation of German civilians in British possessions. Herr Waetzold: notification by UK Government to US Government that they were not prepared to grant a safe-conduct. Thomas Gooding, released from Ruhleben, now at Davos, Switzerland: application for assistance out of public funds. Alexander Heymann, civilian prisoner of war in Germany: request for remittance to be forwarded from J R Martin & Co of London; investigation into his claim to be a British subject. Capitulation of Marshall Islands (Jaluit atoll): German Government request for repatriation from Australia to Germany of Dr Adolf Müller, doctor of the Jaluit Company, under terms of Capitulation Agreement. Nevile Montagu Butler, British subject released from Ruhleben but detained in Berlin: proposed exchange for Friedrich Sommerkamp, German subject detained in England at Lofthouse Park camp, or Fritz Schulz, German invalid residing in South Belgravia, London. British civilians in Ruhleben: request by Prisoners of War Help Committee for latest list. George Mattison, of Middlesbrough: account of his experiences as a prisoner following his return from Germany; request for financial assistance or means of employment; question of him having to surrender his emergency passports, these being the only papers to prove his British nationality. W C Smith, British subject interned at Ruhleben: question of him leaving camp for an operation. British Military Fund accounts from Berlin. Relief of British military prisoners through Mr Harte, American YMCA. Transfer of German prisoners from Ceylon to Australia. Unanswered letters: list of letters sent to Admiralty to which no replies received. Code 1218 File 105462-114701.

MFQ 1/943/2 · Item · 1898
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Gold Coast Colony - Sketch Map Showing the relative positions of the Eastern Boundary Pillars [with Togoland] and German Roads. Reproduced from a sketch, signed by Mr H.M. Hull, travelling commissioner, enclosed in Sir William Maxwells confidential despatch dated December 24th 1896: covering the area between Denu (now in Ghana) and Lomé (now in Togo); also showing trees, villages, farms, lagoon, scrub, the River Aka. Reference table. Lithographed at the Intelligence Division, War Office, December 1898.

MPG 1/1022/2 · Item · 1910
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Karte des Schutzgebietes Togo in Wirkungsbereich der geplanten Bahn Lome-Atakpame-Banjeli wirtschaftlich beleuchtet. 1:1,000,000. Compiled by P Sprigade. Lithographed and printed by Dietrich Reimer (E. Vohsen), Berlin. MS addition shows proposed railway; blue MS addition shows boundary of an area north of 8°N described in MPG 1/1022/3 as a prohibition area. The map covers Togo and part of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). It was originally sub-enclosure 2 to enclosure (iii) in Gold Coast Confidential despatch of 25 February 1910.

FO 925/92 · Item · 1886
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Karte von Afrika, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Kolonien; von W. Liebenow. 1:10,000,000. Insets: Nil-Gebiet bei Chartum, Massana und Östliche Abessinien, Assab und Tadschurra Bai, Das Suaheli oder Witoland und der Untere Tana, Das Gebiet von Angra Pequena, Das Kamerun-gebiet, Tunis und Umgegend, Das Deutsche Togo-gebiet. Berlin, Lithographisches Institut.

CO 1047/220 · Item · 1911
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Karte von Kamerun, beabeitet von M Moisel. G1 Buea. Copy of 219/80 [see Co 1047/219] with addition of a district boundary in S E Nigeria and omission of Cameroon tribal boundaries. Printed, with MS additions of English translations to reference table showing companies owning plantations. MS note on reverse:Return to A1 Harding. Duala Buea (no red tribal boundary lines hereon). 1:300,000. D Reimer, Berlin.