Letter from Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] to Sir Edward Grey, [Foreign Secretary], passing on WSC's regret that a telegram to Sir Alan Johnstone [British Minister to the Netherlands], on a German communique about attacking neutral shipping, had been sent, as he would have preferred to say nothing for a few days. Also includes a draft Admiralty press statement on the use of neutral flags by British shipping, stating that it was an ancient and well established practice of war, recognised by the German Naval Prize Regulations, and Grey's reply on the best way to inform the press.