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Gen.F. Grenfell Suakim Sir E. Baring 1p. Discussing rumours of fall of Equatorial Province

Germany: Prisoners, including: Alleged release of British prisoners at Christmas to enable them to visit their families if they are in Germany. Request from Mrs J Rose of Southsea that her husband be transferred to Switzerland and not Holland. Representations for alleged suffering of individual prisoners in Germany. Arrangements for the exchange and internment in a neutral country of British prisoners. Notification of the names of prisoners transferred or repatriated. Suggested exchange of Sir J Irvin(e) and Mr Balfour for two German subjects, Dr Richard Kuenzer and Kapitänleutnant Franz Rintelen and the exchange of the German Consuls Listemann and Rohland for Stanley Lambert and Mr Weston. Alleged riots in internment camp at Malta. Repatriation of German women and children whose relatives have already been released from civilian detention camps in England. Transmission of notes to the value of 3956 Rupees held as security for sums advanced to six destitute ladies from Tabora. Enquiry from Netherlands Government as to whether there are any Jews among the German prisoners to be interned in Holland. Complaints of Ned Rodgers of Liverpool, and Robert R Southorn, the latter a butcher on board the SS Otaki , interned at Lubeck, concerning the rate of exchange for money received by British prisoners by German authorities. Sentence of one year's imprisonment for Flight-Sergeant Edward Alexander Boyd, Royal Naval Service, for calling German"Huns". Relief for mother of Joe V Austman of Chicago, interned at Alten-Grabow. Stationary supplied to British prisoners in Frankfurt-on-Oder depicting Prussian air-raid on an English coast. Request from Dr A Trautmann, interned at Lofthouse Park, Wakefield, for the return of his Red Cross passport. Transmission to the German Government of a petition of H Aischmann and six other prisoners interned at Islington for transfer to a neutral country. Enquiry from mother of F A Boret, RNVR, interned at Friedrichsfeld, into his state of health and request that he be transferred to a neutral country. Transport of parcels and letters for German prisoners in UK on vessels used to transfer prisoners between Rotterdam and Boston. Request for correct addresses of working camps in Germany. Transmission of a report on the Commercial School at Knockaloe. Suggested course of action when British prisoners request: messages to be conveyed to relatives, supplies of sports material, books etc. and medicinal comforts. Behaviour of the German Red Cross towards British prisoners. Transmission of letter signed by F Prohl and Rudolf Raabe addressed to the German Transport Workers' Union on behalf of certain other prisoners. Request from Lina Buester in Swakopmund, South West Africa, for the repatriation of her husband Korporal Beuster, German prisoner of war interned in Egypt. Reciprocal agreement that civilian dentist treated in a similar way under the Hague Agreement to doctors and ministers of religion and their consequent repatriation. Lecture on the methods of ethnological investigation of prisoners in Germany and their types of idioms and folk-songs. Enquiry concerning pay and reputation of Dr Oscar Bernhard, Surgeon of Swiss Army. Request for repatriation of A Caspary, interned at Lofthouse Park Camp, Wakefield. Enquiry concerning post sent to Adam Hesse relating to a celebration at Knockaloe Camp of the 40th anniversary of the Internationaler Genfer Verband (International Geneva Foundation). Includes account of celebrations in weekly newspaper Internationale Hotel-Industrie. Request that the brothers Karl and Hermann Hain and Gustav and Adolf Weingarten should be interned in the same camp. Presence at Knockaloe of criminal and disreputable class of prisoners an suggests their segregation. Letter from F Müller, interned at Knockaloe, concerning the repatriation of ships' officers and seamen over 45 years old. Transfer of Captain von Müller interned at Keyworth Camp, Derby to Holland. Officer prisoners transferred from one camp to another without their supplies. Recommendations by the German Government for the camp school at Lofthouse Park. Exchange of British and German civilians. Request for information concerning the estate of Hermann Raydt, deceased German subject. Visits to camps in UK by Dr de Sturler of the Swiss Legation. Request from Dr F M Harms, of Stoke Newington, for permission to travel within a 10 mile radius to visit sick and dying German prisoners. List of deceased British prisoners who are difficult to identify. Request from German Government for the names of the survivors from a German submarine reported sunk in the mouth of the Tay. Request for winter clothing for Lieutenant Sidney King, 6th Cheshire Regiment and Lieutenant Mark Quale, 1st East Lancashire Regiment, interned at Diakonenanstalt Reserve Lazaret Duisberg. Request for the liberation of Fritz Gliebenberg, interned in the Isle of Man, from his brother the High Commissioner of South Africa William H Gliebenberg. Christmas gift from the German Red Cross to interned German civilians of 23,000 Marks. Letter from Oberstleutnant Hübener, interned at Malta, concerning communications between prisoners from former German East Africa and their relatives left behind in the colony. Transfer of German women and children from Nyasaland to South Africa. Repatriation of German Red Cross nurse, Lotte von Debschitz. Code 1218 Files 214119-245753.