With there being only “isolated fights on the Western Front” it was two speeches in the Commons that took up the Telegraph’s prime interest today (page 9). Firstly Chancellor Lloyd George announced that the Triple Entente Powers plus Belgium expected to be spending £2,000,000,000 in 1915 and explained where this sum came from. Then came Winston Churchill on the naval situation, which was expended on with yet more articles about the German blockade threats (which were being slightly ameliorated in terms blaming the British for the scope of the threats) which continued over on page 10, along with Archibald Hurd’s latest analysis, as well as inspiring a leader on page 8 which concludes “we are drawing an invincible sword from the sea.”