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].

Forecast of the increased scale of the fleets maintained in commission compared to Germany, together with approximate annual cost of maintaining various ships in different conditions. [Printed].

Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Alick Russell, Military Attache at the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany] on the development of the German Airship Fleet; includes covering note by WSC. [Printed, and circulated to the Cabinet].

Memorandum by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the problem of attack from overseas by Germany. [Printed].

Memoranda by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the possibilities of attack from overseas by Germany; includes printed marginal notes by the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven]. Also includes Admiralty papers "The Timetable of a Nightmare", giving a scenario of a successful German invasion, and an alternative scenario for a German attack in "A Bolt From the Grey". [Printed].

Memorandum by the Admiralty War Staff on the fifty per cent superiority of "Dreadnought" ships in Home Waters, noting the margins of safety maintained against France, 1900-1905, and against Germany, 1911-1912, and 1915; also includes a note on the comparative strength of the British and French fleets during the Napoleonic Wars. [Printed].

Memorandum by Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] giving reasons against WSC's possible meeting with Grand- Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Navy]; also includes Grey's draft telegram to Sir [William] Edward Goschen [British Ambassador to Germany] declining the meeting. [Typescript draft by WSC].

Admiralty note on German Submarine Organisation. [Typescript].

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on his conversation with Count Paul Metternich [German Ambassador to Britain], stating that negotiations with Germany were on an amicable footing, and he was reluctant to publish any papers about naval matters that might give rise to controversy.

Letter from Hans W. von Herwarth, Hamburg, Germany, to WSC, on his views of the German Army as a "national college", also thanking WSC for gift of Life of Lord Randolph Churchill, and photograph of WSC,.

Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Kissingen, to WSC, on his success in the Sandhurst entrance examination, and his father's anger that he failed to obtain an Infantry cadetship, also on her visit to Germany and meeting with Bismarck.

Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Kissingen, to WSC, on her visit to Germany and on the progress on the Second Irish Home Rule Bill.

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.

Admiralty intercepted message, giving a German official communique declaring the waters around Great Britain and Ireland a war region, and warning that hostile merchant ships and possibly neutrals would be attacked.

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 [1st] Lord Vansittart [Chief Diplomatic Adviser to Foreign Secretary] to WSC, enclosing copy of letter to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, containing information from a private source on German air and naval capabilities; with letter of thanks from WSC to Vansittart.