Letter from Sir Edward Troup [Permanent Under Secretary of State, Home Office) to WSC marked "confidential". Subjects covered include: analysis of the condition of the Baltic corn market which demonstrates the effects of crop failure in Germany, not that Germany is preparing for war; lack of increased insurance for war risks which would precede war; analysis of the position of German troops near the Belgian frontier who are suffering from dysentery and the threat posed by the position of the German fleet at Skagen [Denmark]. Signed manuscript.