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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.

SECRET.

Printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence.

January 1913.

COMMITTEE OF IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

MINUTES OF THE 121ST MEETING, JANUARY 7, 1913.

Present:

The Right Hon. H. H. ASQUITH, M.P., Prime Minister (in the Chair).

The Right Hon. VISCOUNT HALDANE OF

CLOAN, Lord Chancellor.

The Right Hon. L. HARCOURT, M.P.,

Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sir JOHN ANDERSON, G.C.M.G., Under-

Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Right Hon. W. S. CHURCHILL, M.P.,

First Lord of the Admiralty.

Admiral H.S.H. PRINCE Louis of BATTEN- BERG, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., A.D.C., First Sea Lord of the Admiralty.

Vice-Admiral Sir H. B. JACKSON, K.C.B.,

K.C.V.O., Chief of the War Staff.

Sir ROBERT CHALMERS, K.C.B., Secretary

of the Treasury.

Sir T. W. HOLDERNESS, K.C.S.I., Per- manent Under-Secretary of State for India.

The Right Hon. VISCOUNT MORLEY, O.M.,

Lord President of the Council. The Right Hon. R. MCKENNA, M.P.,

Secretary of State for Home Affairs. Colonel the Right Hon. J. E. B. SEELY, D.S.O., M,P., Secretary of State for

War.

General Sir JOHN FRENCH, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G, A.D.C., Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Brigadier-General H. H. WILSON, C.B., D.S.O., Director of Military Opera- tions, General Staff.

Brigadier-General D. HENDERSON, C.B., D.S.O., Director of Military Training, General Staff.

The Right Hon. Sir ARTHUR NICOLSON, Bart., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Admiral of the Fleet Sir ARTHUR WILSON,

G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., V.C.

Captain M. P. A. HANKEY, C.B., Secretary.

1-MINUTES OF THE 120ru MEETING.

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY.

THE PRIME MINISTER said that he wished to call attention to a correction which he had made to the second conclusion arrived at in the discussion at the previous meeting on the Report of the Sub-Committee on Trading with the Enemy. In the proof of the Minutes as circulated after the meeting this conclusion was drafted to read :-

2. In order to bring the greatest possible economic pressure upon Germany in a war in which the British Empire in alliance with France and Russia is opposed to the Triple Alliance, it is essential that the Netherlands and Belgium should be compelled to declare at the outset to which side in the struggle they will adhere.”

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