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Show TO MEET MENACE OF THE NORTH Planned to Keep British Navy In the Lead at any Cost. Iondon. The nieech of Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord of tho admiralty. In lutrixluciug the supple tnentary naval appropriation of $', 00,0"0 In the house of commons Mon day afternoon, fully Indorsed as It was by the prime minister, will cause graver concern to the country than any warnings which have gone before. Without the least offcnslvenes. tho first hrd of the admiralty sketched the "unprecedented" rise of the German Ger-man fleet, which he described as "extremely "ex-tremely formidable." His text was I'iiuild. Hulld 1'ntirlngly," through successive years, as the only means of meeting the menace In Hie North sea. |