1. The endeavour to obtain a privileged position in banking enterprises, in the opening and development of mines, in the letting of public contracts, in the execution of public works, in the building of railways (Siberian, Manchurian, Persian Bagdad Railway, Adriatic Railway, &c.); in short, the organization of larger capitalistic enterprises in foreign countries. 2. The hindering of foreign countries by convention from executing productive enterprises on their own soil, e.g. from building railways in their own countries. 3. The anti-militarist movement, considered in its religious and political manifestations. (Only opposition to all military organization is here to be considered.) 4. The position of organized labour and the socialists in the various States on the questions of war and armaments. 5. Is it possible to determine a special interest of individual classes making for or against war, for or against standing armies? 6. The influence of women and woman suffrage upon war and armaments. 7. The extension of obligatory military service in the different States, in times both of war and of peace. (_a_) The conditions of military service; the system of enlistment and of general obligatory service, the actual position of aliens. (_b_) The ratio of the persons obliged to render military service to the entire population. (_c_) The influence of the present system of military obligation and the organization of armies upon warfare and upon its duration. 8. The economic effects of the right of capture and its influence upon the development of navies. 9. War loans provided by neutral countries; their extent and influence on recent warfare. 10. The effects of war: (_a_) Financial cost of war. The methods of meeting it: Taxation; International Loans; External Loans. (_b_) Losses and gains from the point of view of public and private economic interests; checks to production and the destruction of productive forces; reduction of opportunities for business enterprises; interruption of foreign trade and of the imports of food; the destruction of property; shrinkage of values of property, including securities; financial burden caused by new taxes, debts, and war indemnities; effects upon private credit and upon savings banks; advantages to those industries which furnish military materials; advantages and disadvantages to neutral countries. (_c_) The effects of war upon the supply of the world with food and raw materials, with special reference to those States which are in large degree dependent upon other countries for such supplies, e.g. Great Britain and Germany; by diversion of capital from those countries which produce food and raw materials (especially the stoppage of railway building and of new investments in agriculture and other industries).