ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2570, 18 September 1915, Page 5

ANGLO-FRENCH LOAN

AMERICAN BANKERS PLEDGED PRO-GEfiMAN BANKS PARTICI* PATINC. By Telegraph—Press Association—CoDyrisht New York,' September 16. Ino first; formal conference of tfe financiers lasted from. 4 o'clook to midnight. Thero' is a general feeling of • optimism. - * . Tho cotton growers Lave been notified that Britain and Franca will care for their interests. American bankers have already pledged themselves to take- -up a largo proportion of the Anglo-Frencli loan. The Commission is willing to allow pro-Gorman banks to participate if they are isatisfied that the offers are genuine. German propagandists are organising nation-wide protests against the flotation. Some of the pro-German New York bankers are actually resentful because they were not invited to participate in the loan. Mr. Lansing (Secretary of State)' announces that tho loan does not violate neutrality, because it is 'esesntially a credit loan for the payment of the Allies'' obligations in America. ORGANISED HOSTILITY A DEEP-LAID PLOT DISCLOSED (R«c. September 17, 10.55 p.m.) New York, September 17. In connection with the floating of the Allies' loan, the evidence of organised hostility amongst pro-Gcrinan citizens is accumulating, and suggests that there is a deep-laid plot to strike at • the very root' of American prosperity as well as threatening tho lives of the members of the Lcau Commission. It is stated that the, namei. of every bank officer with German blood in his veins is in possession of those directing the agitation. A project is mooted of floating a German counter-loan. Certain Wall Street bankers heretofore classed as pro-Germans regard the success of tho Allies' loan as a fundamental necessity, and believing the prosperity of the United States is involved they mil assist the loan. PLAIN WORDS TO PRO-CERMANS, (Rec. September 17, 11.5 p.m.) New York, September 17. Mr. James J. Hill ■ (the Railway, King), after visiting Messrs. Scliiff, the bankers, declared that - German-Ameri-can bankers must choose between' the United States and Germany. The country's prosperity demanded the success of the loan, and drastic methods would be,adopted if necessary to quieten tho pro-German opposition.