Speaking in great spirits at Liverpool on Monday, Mr. Churchill
said that he had come to ask for a million men for Sir John French's Army—" a million of the flower of our manhood, nothing but the very best, every man a volunteer, a million men maintained in the field and equipped with every- thing that science can invent or money can buy." Thus alone could the war be ended " in the only way." Meanwhile he could not have hoped that at this stage of the war circum- stances would have been so favourable to the Allied cause. He was at last free to say that the German Fleet had been built for the express purpose of our undoing—for our "exclusive benefit." The elaborate system of espionage con- ducted for years in this country proved that German ships knew the way here. Let them come. If they did not, they would be "dug out like rats in a hole." The war had altered everything for us. The Orangemen had given their rifles to the Belgians, and there was no one in Britain, Liberal or Nationalist, who would allow them to be any the worse off for that.
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