[NOTE: ADM 137/1906, 1906A-1906E are produced as a single document: order as ADM...

[NOTE: ADM 137/1906, 1906A-1906E are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1906].

Folio 1: Title.

Folio 2: Explanatory note. During the period of the War, papers of a confidential nature in the office of the C-in-C Home Fleet were filed in Packs (numbered separately from the non-confidential records) in a Series 001 to 0042 inclusive. Copies of relevant telegrams were filed in these packs, but a complete set of all telegrams was also maintained. The secret packs were re-arranged by the Grand Fleet secretarial staff in February 1919, when papers considered unimportant were removed and destroyed, and the remainder re-indexed. They were received in this form by the Historical Section in April 1920, and bound as received, in a series of Volumes. The 1919 index will be found in the first volume (see ADM 137/1881) and extracts from these have been inserted in each succeeding volume. This volume is the 26th of the series. Folio 3: Index of contents.

Folios 4-7: Blank. Pack 0016. Information regarding enemy movements. Folio 8: Title. Folios 9-27: Section 1. Rewards for information re destruction and movements of enemy submarines and mines. Folios 9 and 10: Admiralty letter NL16893, 16 September 1914 to C-in-C HM Ships & Vessels, Home Fleets. Offer of £200 prize money to be paid for each German submarine captured or sunk by trawlers crews approved by Lords Commissioners.

Folio 11: Letter NL/R2124/14, 25 October 1914. Admiralty request for copy of order concerning prize money. Question raised over definition of 'trawlers'.

Folios 12-16: Letters M.02060 dated October 1914 concerning prize money.

Folio 17: Letter HF 016, 19 October 1914. Admiral, C-in-C to Chief Constable Stornoway. Make known as widely as possible conditions for rewards for information in regard to enemy submarines or other craft.

Folios 18-21: Covering letter M02060, 27 October 1914 and copy of Extract from Admiralty weekly orders. 1. Enemy vessels, mines and submarines. Reward for information etc (M.04503 ? 1.1.1915).

Folios 22-23: Covering letter M04505, 14 January 1914 and copy of Notice (poster) headed 'To the masters and crews of all British trawlers and other fishing craft'.

Folios 24-25: Covering letter M15914, 16 February 1915 and full sized poster advertising rewards to coast watchers and civilians for reporting sightings of enemy submarines, other craft and mines.

Folios 26-27: Covering letter M18036/15, 27 April 1915 and poster advertising rewards for information about supply of oil etc to enemy craft.

Folios 28-36: Section 2. Use of Norwegian fjords by enemy submarines.

Folios 28-33: Covering letter G12741/15/2010, 21 January 1915 and copy of a letter dated 29 October 1914 received from Lieutenant ECH Stuart by the Naval Attaché at Christiana [Oslo, Norway] containing information on refuelling at sea of German vessels, steel manufacturing experiments by Germans and other subjects.

Folios 35-36: Letter M01154/15, 22 February 1915 and Naval telegrams related to German vessels using Norwegian Fjords. Pack 0017. Intelligence.

Folios 38-96: Section 1. Miscellaneous intelligence 1914.

Folio 38: Title.

Folios 39-40: Covering letter M ? ID Secret 111/14, 4 September 1914. Copy of report on Hamburg representing the state of affairs at that place at the end of August which is believed to be reliable.

Folios 41-42: Copy of report from Commander SL Willis, HMS Bonaventure, 27 August 1914 with information obtained from the master of Norwegian SS Polsad which left Hamburg, 25 August 1914.

Folios 43-55: Covering letter M/NID2359/14, 30 September 1914 and copy of translation of a German report on the annual battle practice of certain German ships.

Folios 56-57: Letters HF 0017, 10 October 1914 and No 1061/HF0017, 9 May 1916 and M04426, 22 May 1916 concerning translation of report noted under folios 43-55.

Folio 61: Copies of three notes dated 22 and 24 October 1914 headed ?Norwegian territorial waters ? use by enemy vessels. Copies of reports received from British Minister at Christiana? [Oslo, Norway].

Folios 62-68: Covering letter M03534, 11 November 1914 and translations of ?cruiser problems? which were found in mail bags addressed to ?Scharnhorst? and ?Gneisenau.?

Folios 68-69: Covering handwritten note from Thomas E Creasey on behalf of Lord Fisher enclosing a Foreign Office note from A Carnegie Ross in San Francisco enclosing a copy of a communication from a ?Vaughan via Vice-Consul Hutchinson in San Diego. Passing on information from someone with a brother in Germany.

Folios 71-76: Covering letters M 1022, 9 December 1914 and No 691/HF0017, 21 December 1914 enclosing a memorandum of a conversation with a Norwegian gentleman who is stated to be a very intelligent and accurate observer and a good friend to this country. A Mr Bjorkman, 1 and 2 December 1914. Mr Bjorkman made a full report of what he found in three Scandinavian countries; Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Folios 77-88: Reports and correspondence concerning action between HMAS Sydney and HIGMS Emden:- Admiralty covering letter M04526, 11 December 1914; Extract from letter of proceedings, HMAS Sydney at Colombo 15 November 1914 by Captain John CT Clossop; Covering letter, HMAS Sydney at Gibraltar 6 December 1914, Captain John VT Glossop with report titled Notes of the recent action with SMS Emden; Letter HF0017, 19 December 1914, Admiral JR Jellicoe comments on report of action between HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden; Two copies of Fourth Supplement to The London Gazette Tuesday 29 December 1914.

Folio 89: Copy of telegram 20 January 1915, from Lowther, British Minister, Copenhagen to Admiralty. Movements of German ships and other information.

Folios 90-96: Covering letter G12741/15/2010, 21 January 1915, W Graham Greene with copy of letter received from Lieutenant ECH Stuart by the Naval Attaché at Christiana {Oslo, Norway] dated 29 October 1914. (Further copy of report in Folios 28-33 above).

Listing continued in ADM 137/1906B.

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