Memoranda from the German section of the Political Intelligence Department on subjects including: the situation in Austria-Hungary, particularly the future of Hungary; a message from Count Mihály Karolyi, Prime Minister of Hungary, on the difficulties Hungary was facing; the future of the foreign press unit at Watergate House; a conversation with Otto Bauer, Austrian Foreign Minister, advising sending a British mission to Vienna with food aid to counter Bolshevik influence; the canalisation of the Rhone between Lyons [France] and Geneva [Switzerland] and linking Lake Geneva with the Rhine; conditions in Germany; an interview with Lev Kamenev on conditions in Russia.