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Enclosure 4 in No. 40.

Office of the Inspector-General of Police, Colombo,

Enemy Subjects in Ceylon,

18th November, 1914.

I HAVE the honour to report that the present position is as follows :- A.-Male Enemy Subjects.

1.-Local.

Original number : 88.

Committed suicide

Exempted as Alsatians

6-In the Western Province.

(a) In Moratuwa Convent

(b) Employed at Kelaniya as missionaries (e) Employed at Hendela Leper Asylum

7.-In the Northern Province.

(a) In the Jaffna Convent

(6) Employed as a schoolmistress

(c) Exempted by His Excellency the Governor from reporting

(Mr. C. Zanetti, Irrigation Engineer in the service

of Government.)

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8. In the Eastern Province,

32181

In the Trincomalie Convent

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(d) Sent by the police to Ragama for internment

Sent by the police to Diyatalawa for internment

88

N.B. Total number now interned in Ceylon, 84. 2.-Removed from Ships in the Harbour and from Prizes.

(a) Sent to Ragama

219

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C.-Total A male enemy subjects interned in Ceylon

B female enemy subjecta interned in Ceylon female enemy subjects in Colombo and in the Provinces

I am, &c.,

ท

23

300

17 30

H. L. DOWBIGGIN,

(Of which number 11 were subsequently discharged

by order of the Governor and have left the Island.) Sent to Diyatalawa

In Welikade Gaol till 20th November, 1914

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The Honourable

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The Colonial Secretary.

(After which date removal to Diyatalawa has been

arranged for.)

N.B. Total number now interned in Ceylon, 222.

B. Female Enemy Subjects.

1.—Interned in Diyatalawa.

From ships in harbour (and 2 children)

(b) From Colombo (residents)

From Central Province (residents)

(d) From Southern Province (residents)

N.B. Total number now interned in Ceylon, 17.

2.-In Colombo.

About to proceed to Java

In the Lady Havelock Hospital

(c) Permitted to reside with their parents, who are British

subjects

Employed in the General Hospital

Awaiting orders (Mrs. Ziegan and Rosbroy)

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2

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3.-In the Central Province.

(a) Employed as governesses by British subjects (b) Employed as a schoolmistress

4. In the Southern Province.

(a) Employed as a governess under a British subject

5.-In the North-Western Province.

Employed in the Kurunegala Hospital

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Inspector-General of Police.

Enclosure 5 in No. 40.

CONTENTS OF Typewritten Statement FOUND IN GEORGE BOYBEN & COMPANY'S OFFICE, BELONGING TO THORWARDT.

General. The document, which is headed "Happenings during the early August days, 1914, in Colombo," is, broadly speaking, a résumé of the information given to German subjects in Colombo by the German Consul, Mr. W. Freudenberg. The object is very evidently intended to explain to the military authorities in Germany why the German reservists in Colombo did not, or could not, obey the call to arms. From the general trend of the remarks I gather that the German reservista com- plain that their Consul here put hindrances in their way which prevented them from leaving Ceylon, when they had a chance of doing so, firstly by withholding information, and secondly by declining to assist them financially. I give a translation of this statement, which has been drawn up by one of Freudenberg & Company's employees, D. Dochle, and some of the letter-paper bears this firm's heading.

Page 1, Diary. Saturday, 1st August, 1914.-Morning. Receipt of the telegram from the Norddeutscher Lloyd, "Stop loading passengers and cargo." Further cables from Singapore and Port Said advising the 8.8. "Prinz Eitel Friedrich," in Shanghai, and the ss. "Leutzow," in Suer (both neutral ports` had been detained. S.8. "Kleist" to be expected in Colombo Harbour, homeward bound, at 10 p.m.

In the evening, at 7.30, we were (Herr von Pavel and Dochle) asked by Mr. Seigmund Freudenberg by telephone to give him the translation of the wireless message received from the "Kleist" in the afternoon.

At the same time we were

We reported "time of arrival and departure." informed by Mr. S. Freudenberg that an official telegram had been received from Simla, and that the German Consul, Mr. W. Freudenberg, had gone to the office to translate same. In order to be able to give the captain of the "Kleist" the latest possible information, should the Simla message contain any important news, we, the inhabitants of Hamburg House (Messrs. G. Boysen, G. Rickertsen, M. v. Pavel, D. Dochle), proceeded at 9 p.m. to the German Consul's house. learnt that he had gone to the theatre, and learnt further, on inquiry, that the cable "Elbkälme Warner verweser' could not be translated. (NOTE-Evidently

There we

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