Includes: minutes of statements made by: Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Secretary of State for War; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer; [1st Lord] Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] Secretary of State for India; Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Dominions; William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty; and Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] Secretary of State for Air on military issues including transportation of artillery shells, and the defence of Shanghai and British property.