Includes: a copy of the Foreign Office Diplomatic and Consular Report on the Finances of the German Empire for 1907, with estimates for 1908, by Count John de Salis, Councillor of the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany]; a draft memorandum on Public Finance in Britain and Germany by Alfred Flux; press cuttings on new German taxes; a report on German Imperial Revenue and Expenditure, 1905-1909; a note on the strains in the German economy by WSC; reports on German shipyards building warships for Argentina; correspondence on the Argentinean warships from Sir Henry Bax-Ironside [former Minister Plenipotentiary to Chile], Charles Delme-Radcliffe, Military Attache at Rome [Italy] and de Salis.