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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
Printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence. April 1911.
SECRET.
COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
MINUTES OF 108TH MEETING, JANUARY 26, 1911.
RES
Present:
The Right Hon. H. H. ASQUITH, M.P., Prime Minister (in the Chair).
The Right Hon. W. S. CHURCHILL, M.P., | The Right Hon. L. HARCOURT, M.P.,
Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The Right Hon. SIR E. GREY, Bart., M.P., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Right Hon. SIR A. NICOLSON, Bart., G.C.V.O., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., Perma- nent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Right. Hon. R. MCKENNA, M.P., First
Lord of the Admiralty.
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Admiral of the Fleet SIR A. K. WILSON, G.C.V.O., G.C.B., First Sea Lord of the Admiralty.
Rear-Admiral the Hon. A. E. BETHELL,
Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Right Hon. the EARL OF CREWE, K.G., K.P., Secretary of State for India.
The Right Hon. R. B. HALDANE, M.P.,
Secretary of State for War.
General SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON, G.C.B.,
Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Brigadier-General H. H. WILSON, C.B., D.S.O., Director of Military Opera- tions.
C.M.G., Director of Naval Intelligence. The Right Hon. S. BUXTON, M.P., Presi-
General SIR JOHN FRENCH, G.C.V.O.,
G.C.B., Inspector - General of the Forces.
dent of the Board of Trade.
SIR H. LLEWELLYN SMITH, K.C.B., Perma-
nent Secretary, Board of Trade
Rear-Admiral SIR CHARLES OTTLEY, K.C.M.G., M.V.O., Secretary.
1.-REPORT OF THE STANDING SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE REGARDING THE TREATMENT OF NEUTRAL AND ENEMY MERCHANT-SHIPS IN TIME OF WAR. (C.I.D. Papers 120-B, 122-B.)
THE PRIME MINISTER suggested that as Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, who was Chairman of the Sub-Committee, had gone to India, Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith should explain briefly the conclusions at which the Sub-Committee had arrived.
SIR HUBERT LLEWELLYN SMITH said that the principal matters dealt with in the report were the conditions under which "days of grace" should be granted to enemy ships in our ports on the outbreak of war.
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