Bound Collection of HMSO Reports & Dispatches relating to World War I: 35 reports
1916, First Edition. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. Worn copy bound in the original half leather over marble boards with a gilt title to the spine. Wear and tear as with age, particularly tearing to the spine band. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Item #365034
Provenance; from the library of The University of Minnesota with its bookplate. Physical description; 35 reports. Contents; Statement of the Measures adopted to intercept sea-bourne commerce of Germany ; Correspondence with the United States Ambassador respecting the safety of alien enemies repatriated from India on the S.S. "Golconda" ; Selection from Papers found in the possession of Captain von Papen, late German Military Attaché at Washington, Falmouth, January 2 & 3, 1916 ; Further Correspondence with the German Government respecting the incidents alleged to have attended the sinking of a German submarine and its crew by His Majesty's Auxiliary cruiser "Baralong" on August 19, 1915 ; further correspondence with the United States Ambassador respecting the safety of alien enemies repatriated from India on the S.S. "Golconda" ; Memorandum presented by His Majesty's Government and the French Government to Neutral Governments regarding the examination of parcels and letter mails ; report by the Government committee on the Treatment by the enemy of British prisoners of war regarding the conditions obtaining at Wittenberg Camp during the Typhus epidemic of 1915 ; Sworn Statement by Horst von der Goltz, alias Bridgeman Taylor ; Further correspondence between His Majesty's Government and the United States government respecting the right of Belligerents ; Further correspondence between His Majesty's Government and the United States government respecting the right of Belligerents ; Further correspondence between His Majesty's Government and the United States government respecting the treatment of British prisoners of war and interned civilians in Germany ; Correspondence with the United States Ambassador respecting the transfer to Switzerland of British and German wounded and sick combatant prisoners of war ; report by doctor A. E. Taylor on the conditions of diet and nutrition in the interment camp at ruhleben received through the united states ambassador ; Correspondence respecting the employment of British and german prisioners of war in Poland and France respectively ; further correspondence respecting the conditions of diet and nutrition in the internment camp at Rulheben ; note addressed by His Majesty's government to neutral representatives in London respecting the withdrawal of the declaration of London orders in council ; note addressed to the United States Ambassador regarding the Examination of parcels and letter mails ; Correspondence with the United States Ambassador regarding the relief of allied territories in the occupation of the enemy ; further correspondence respecting the conditions of diet and nutrition in the internment camp at Ruhleben and the proposed release of interned civilians ; further correspondence with the United States Ambassador respecting the treatment of British Prisoners of War and Interned Civilians in germany ; Reports of visits of inspection made by officials of the United States Embassy to various internment camps in the United Kingdom ; correspondence respecting the relief of allied territories in the occupation of the enemy ; report on the Typhus epidemic at Gardelegen by the government committee on the treatment by the enemy of British Prisoners of war during the spring and summer of 1915 ; further correspondence respecting the proposed release of civilians interned in the British and German empires ; further correspondence with the United States Ambassador respecting the "trading with the enemy (extension of powers) act, 1915" ; correspondence with the Belgian minister respecting the deportation of Belgians to Germany and the forced labour imposed upon them by the German Authorities ; Report of the advisory committee on proposals for the state purchase licensed liquor trade ; report of a sub-committee of the advisory committee to the board of trade on commercial intelligence with respect to measures for securing the position, after the war, of certain branches of British industry ; report of a sub-committee of the advisory committee to the board of trade on commercial intelligence with respect to measures for securing the position, after the war, of certain branches of British industry ; introduction and part I of the final report of the departmental committee appointed by the President of the board of Agriculture and Fisheries to consider the settlement or employment on the land in England and Wales of discharged sailors and soldier ; part II of the final report of the departmental committee appointed by the President of the board of Agriculture and Fisheries to consider the settlement or employment on the land in England and Wales of discharged sailors and soldier ; Minutes and evidence of a departmental committee...to condsider and report what steps can be taken to promoted the settlement or employment on the land in England and Wales of Sailors and Soldiers, whether disabled or otherwise, on discharge form the Navy or Army. Subjects; HMSO reports.
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