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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.

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Intercepted wireless message from the German Embassy, on reports in newspapers that British merchant ships were to use a neutral flag, stating that this was an admission that Britain was unable to protect its merchant fleet. [Duplicate typescript].

Scope and Contents Minute by Rear-Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence, on Fanning Island, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean on the direct route from Vancouver [Canada] to Auckland [New Zealand], and from San Francisco [United States] to Fiji and Sydney [Australia]. The island had been bought by an Anglo-Canadian syndicate who hoped to work its phosphates resources, and were investigating the possibility of creating a coaling station for merchant steamers; Bethell recommends improving the...

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Letter from WSC to David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer], objecting to the Treasury decision to block construction of oil tankers. [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Scope and Contents Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], Rear-Admiral Henry Campbell [Rear-Admiral Home Fleets at the Nore], the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], and the Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty [Sir Francis Hopwood, later 1st Lord Southborough], on a visit from Howard Houlder of the Houlder Line Company, who had decided to lay down four 19 knot ships for transport of meat...

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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Director of the Air Division, Admiralty, [Captain Murray Sueter] asking for a dual Maurice Farman aircraft to be sent to Eastchurch [Kent], on the following Tuesday, and that two skilful flyers should "get thoroughly acquainted with her", stating that he hoped to use the aircraft himself on the Thursday. [Carbon].

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Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.

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Visits and meetings, mostly relating to European transport policy and trans-European network issues.

Scope and Contents Pamphlet detailing Conservative election policy under a number of headings: "Pillars of Peace" on measures to support the British empire and Commonwealth (including an Empire economic conference, imperial preference), the unity of the English speaking peoples, the United Nations and hopes that Soviet Russia will join it, and support for the rearmament programme; "Increase national output"; "Halt to nationalisation" including industrial measures, and the repeal of the Iron and Steel Act,...