Notes and reports by LSA and others on subjects including: positioning of trenches; French troop movements; general orders to German infantry; LSA being attached to the 1st Birmingham Battalion; instructions for General Staff, 4th Army Corps; Allied forces lined up against the German 4th and 6th Armies and projected Allied advances in the Ypres area [Belgium]; operations of the 4th Army Corps (December); German reinforcements on the Western and Eastern fronts and the advantages of an offensive in south-eastern Europe; copies of special illustrated pamphlets by the Graphic, reproducing despatches from Field Marshal Sir John French [Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France, later 1st Lord Ypres] on battles at Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, Ypres, Armentieres and the defence of Antwerp.