Telegram from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Japanese Minister of Marine [Vice-Admiral Rokuro Yashiro] on Britain's intention to enter the Baltic early in the New Year. WSC predicts the fall of Tsingtau [the German port on the China coast], and the destruction of the German outlying cruisers; he asks Japan to consider their continuing naval aid contribution. [Hand-written copy, copied to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary].