Report by [WSC] to [Sir Edward Grey, later Lord Grey of Fallodon] of his conversation with Count Paul von Wolff-Metternich [the German Ambassador]. Refers briefly to WSC's plans to visit Germany and see labour exchanges and the army manoeuvres, and to the situation between the Government and the House of Lords and the prospects for a General Election. Followed by lengthier considerations of: German naval armament and the German claim that it had been exaggerated by the British Government in order to justify their own large naval estimates; German suspicions of a close military relationship between Britain and France; the Baghdad Railway [Iraq]. Typescript copy. Original sent with CHAR 2/39/85. Pages 5 & 6 filed in the wrong order.