Notes on subjects including: historical relations between Germany and France, particularly on Prince Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, and the Franco-Prussian War, Serbia and the Balkans, German colonial policy in Africa, Germany's alliance with Turkey and general German policy, 1894-1904; the Casablanca Incident [Morocco] of 1908; German attempts to prevent an alliance between Britain, France and Russia (1904-5); the Conference of Algeciras [Spain] (1906); Kaiser Wilhelm II; the German Navy (1895-1909); general German history (1870-90); Germany's policy on Alsace-Lorraine and Poland.

Also includes: notes on an alleged statement by LSA supporting a new constitution for Malta; press-cuttings on Germany's build-up to the war and attempts to forge an alliance with Russia and France against Britain, and on Australian claims to German colonies; article by Colonel 3rd Lord Gorell, Deputy Director of Staff Duties (Education) at the War Office [earlier Ronald Gorell Barnes] on the educational training scheme within the British Army; article by the British Palestine Committee on Palestine and the Colonial Office, particularly on plans to establish Maltese colonies in Palestine, and Jewish colonisation plans.