Despatch from the British Ambassador to Germany, reporting proceedings in the Reichstag with regard to the acceleration of the German Navy Bill Programme. [Typescript].

Speech of the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, at the launch of a battleship [unnamed], asking the German people to support the strengthening of the fleet. [Typescript].

Report on a speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] in a Reichstag debate on the German Naval Estimates. [Typescript copy].

Text of Major-General Keim's address to the German Navy League, "Our Fleet and Its Future", with text of supporting telegram from the Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II. [Typed copy].

Text of Kaiser Wilhelm II's speech at the opening of the Reichstag, on the German Navy Law. [Typescript].

Reported text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] at the sitting of the Budget Commission on the alteration of the German Navy Law and increased votes on naval expenditure. [Typescript].

Reported text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] in the Reichstag on the new German Fleet Bill. [Typescript].

Report by [Captain Herbert Heath], the British Naval Attache (Berlin [Germany]) on remarks made to him by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German Navy. [Typescript].

Report by Captain Herbert Heath, British Naval Attache (Berlin [Germany]) on his conversations with the Adjutant to Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German battleships of the 1909 programme. Includes copy of a letter from the Adjutant to Heath. [Typescript].

Report of the British Ambassador to Germany [Sir William Goschen], on a speech by Admiral von Keoster defending the German Navy League's demands for more large cruisers in the light of the despatch of a ship to Agadir [Morocco]. [Typescript].

Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] to the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on German naval construction and Germany's attitude to the British Navy. [Typescript].

Extract from a letter from [? Captain Hugh Watson], British Naval Attache [Berlin, Germany] reporting that a German naval writer who had described WSC's speech of 18 Mar 1912 [on Naval Estimates] as a fair one, had been ordered by the Reichs-Marine-Amt to take the line that the speech was an outrage to Germany. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 9/42 for WSC's speech].

Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] before the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on German warship construction as compared to the British construction programme. [Typescript].

Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] during a debate in the Reichstag on German Naval Estimates, on the need for increasing the number of ships for overseas service. [Typescript].

Reported text of a speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] during a debate in the Reichstag on German Naval Estimates, on the need for more ships in foreign waters. [Typescript].

Report by the Admiralty Intelligence Department on the German Fleet Laws of 1898, 1900, 1906, and 1908. [Printed].

Letter from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] on the wording of proposed peace conditions with Germany. [carbon].

Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill, Bar Harbour Malvern Hotel, Maine, to WSC, on Lord and Lady Randolph's visit to the United States and Canada, and on WSC's proposed visit to Germany.

Letter from Count Paul von Wolff-Metternich (German Embassy, 9 Carlton House Terrace, London) to WSC reporting Chancellor Bulow's speech in the Reichstag stating that Germany's naval armament is purely for defensive purposes.

Letter from T C Horsfall (Swanscoe Park, near Macclesfield, [Cheshire]) to WSC on the powers of beugermeisters in Germany and the possibility of introducing a system of paid mayors into Britain. Advocates the formation of the municipal and local civil service into one large body. Encloses his paper on The Government of Manchester [see CHAR 2/38/4]. Signed and annotated typescript.