eted for this country is more than double the number
which will be completed for Germany, [cheers,] and the number of
cruisers three or four times as great. [Cheers.] Therefore I think I am
on solid ground when I come here tonight and say that you may count upon
the naval supremacy of this country being effectively maintained as
against the German power for as long as you wish. [Cheers.]

The Army's Share.

Now we must look at the army....

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... Government and during all periods of modern history the darling of
the British Nation. On it have been lavished whatever public funds were
necessary, and to its efficiency has been devoted the unceasing care and
thought of successive Administrations. The result is that when the need
came the navy was absolutely ready, [cheers,] and, as far as we can see
from what has happened, thoroughly adequate to the task which was
required from it. But we have not been in times of peace a military
nation. The army has not had the facilities of obtaining the lavish
supplies of men and money for its needs which have in times of peace and
in the past, to our good fortune at the moment, been so freely given to
the navy. And what you have to do now is to make a great army. [Cheers.]
You have to make an army under the cover and shield of the navy strong
enough to enable our country to play its full part in the decision of
this terrible struggle. [Cheers.]

A Million Men Needed.

The sure way--the only sure way--to bring this war to an end is for the
British Empire to put on the Continent and keep on the Continent an army
of at least 1,000,000 men. [Cheers.] I take that figure because it is
one well within the compass of the arrangements which are now on foot
and because it is one which is well within the scope of the measures
which Lord Kitchener--[Loud cheers drowned the rest of the sentence.]

I was reading in the newspapers the other day that the German Emperor
made a speech to some of his regiments in which he urged them to
concentrate their attention upon what he was pleased to call "French's
contemptible little army." [Laughter.] Well, they are concentrating
their attention upon it [laughter and cheers] and that army, which has
been fighting with such extraordinary prowess, which has revived in a
fortnight of adverse actions the ancient fame and glory of our arms
upon the Continent, [cheers,] and wh