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Minute by WSC, commenting on Admiralty despatches on Antwerp Operations, Oct 1914 [printed].

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Cabinet Paper - Antwerp Operations - October 1914 [printed Oct 1915].

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Telegram from the Admiralty to the French Ministry of Marine, Bordeaux [France], on plans to maintain aerial command of the area around Dunkirk. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Major-General Sir George Aston [Royal Naval Division], (Dunkirk [France]) to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on a request from French Territorial Forces at Douai for cavalry support. [Carbon].

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Letter from Rear-Admiral Horace Hood (Hotel Crusader, Nieuport [Belgium]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the naval and military situation in France and Belgium, including: the use of Hood's ships at Nieuport; the placing of German guns along the shore; Hood's mining of the coastal waters; the chances of a Belgian advance; relations between the French and Belgians.

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Letter from Frederick Guest to WSC, on the military situation in France, including the halt of the German advance, the new French generals and the disappointing French cavalry.

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Telegram from Rear-Admiral Horace Hood to Admiralty, on his naval operations to support the Army in Belgium, including problems with French mines, and his need for HMS Revenge to help knock out the German guns on the coast. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Rear-Admiral Horace Hood, to Admiralty, reporting on his support of the Army in Belgium. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Ollivant [General Staff Officer, Royal Naval Division] (Dunkirk [France]), to Admiralty, on a planned move on Douai. [Carbon].

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Telegram from the Director of Intelligence [Rear-Admiral Henry Oliver], Admiralty, to Major-General Archibald Paris [Royal Naval Division] (Dunkirk [France]), reporting a statement by the Belgian Minister of War, that the Germans were taking the siege of Antwerp [Belgium] seriously, and it was not intended as a diversion. Also reporting on German troop movements. [Carbon].

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Letter from WSC to Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on the need for special mechanical devices (including tanks) for taking trenches. [carbon].

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Telegram from Major-General Archibald Paris [General Officer Commanding Royal Naval Division] to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the defence of Antwerp [Belgium], including blocking the River Schelde. [Carbon].

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Letter from Rear-Admiral Horace Hood to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], giving his views on the Ostend and Zeebrugge [Belgium] expeditions, particularly on the position at Nieuport, and also on Hood's wish to return to the Dover Patrol.

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Telegram from Calais [France] to Admiralty, reporting that there were 3000 wounded in the town, and that the state of affairs was "deplorable owing to total collapse of organisation"; also stating that 3000 more wounded were expected from the front. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Admiralty to Major-General Sir George Aston, [Royal Naval Division] (Dunkirk [France]), reporting large enemy cavalry forces within 60 miles, and urging caution in using British Yeomanry cavalry as they were deficient in equipment. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Major-General Sir George Aston, [Royal Naval Division], (Dunkirk [France]), to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, reporting his interview with the Governor of Dunkirk [Charles Bidon], on the employment of the Division at Douai. [Carbon].

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Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to Major-General General Sir George Aston [Royal Naval Division], placing him on the sick list, and ordering him home to London for a rest before resuming his duties. Aston is ordered to hand over command to Major-General Archibald Paris, and the movements of the division and intelligence and organisational systems are detailed. [Carbon].

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Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the General Officer Commanding, Dunkirk Force [Major- General Archibald Paris, Royal Naval Division], on the military situation in and around Antwerp [Belgium]. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Major-General Archibald Paris [Royal Naval Division] (Dunkirk [France]), to Admiralty, stating that French forces had withdrawn from Tournai towards Orchies; also warning that the position of the battalion at Lille was unsound, and proposing to withdraw it to Cassel. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Major-General Archibald Paris [Royal Naval Division], to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, stating that the battalion at Lille [France] was fairly secure, and had orders to retire on Cassel if the French were to evacuate Lille, and proposing to keep his main force in Cassel for the present. [Carbon].

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Telegram from Rear-Admiral Horace Hood to the Duty Captain, Admiralty, on his operations to support the Army in Belgium. [Carbon].

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Minute by Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord "On the possibility of using our command of the sea to influence more drastically the military situation on the continent" [carbon, with ms annotations ? by WSC].

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Letter from Commander Charles Samson [Naval Air Service] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], reporting on the occupation of Lille [France] by a British and French force, following the withdrawal of German forces. [Typescript copy].

Scope and Contents Telegram from Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France], on a meeting between Paul Cambon [French Ambassador to Britain] and the French Minister of War, in which Cambon passed on a message about the importance that the British attached to the transfer of British troops to the extreme left of the Allied line. Bertie also reports on the view of General Joseph Joffre [Chief of French General Staff] on such a move, and Joffre's lack of confidence in British support, particularly from [?...

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Telegram from Major-General Sir George Aston [Royal Naval Division], (Dunkirk [France]), to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on a request from French Headquarters for Commander Charles Samson [Naval Air Service] with five armoured cars to destroy railway bridges between Cambrai and Valenciennes. [Carbon].