[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 which tonight, after a long,
protracted, harassed, unbroken, and undaunted rearguard action--the
hardest trial to which troops can be exposed--is advancing in spite of
the loss of one-fifth of its numbers, and driving its enemies before
it--that army must be reinforced and backed and supported and increased
and enlarged in numbers, in power by every means and every method that
every one of us can employ.
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