GERMANS' FOURTH WAR LOAN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 1 December 1915, Page 5

GERMANS' FOURTH WAR LOAN

EEPORTED CALL FOR FIVE HUN- , DEED MILLIONS! By Telegraph—Press Association—Oonyrtglt Amsterdam, November 29. It is reported that Germany will issuo her fourth war loan for ten milliards of marks (five hundred millions sterling) in the middle of January. Early in Spembor, 1914, the''German Government issued its first war loan. It took the form of £50,p00,000 of 5 per cent. Treasury bonds, with a five years' currency, and a 5 per cont. loan of undefined amount, irredeemable, until 1924. The price of both Treasury bonds and loan was 97j. In March, 1915, the second war loan issue was made, this time an unlimited amount of both Treasury bonds and Imperial loan, with interest as before at 5 per cent., but with the price raised from 97} to 981The third war loan -was issued in September last. It was again a 5 per cent, issue, but included this time no Treasury bonds. The price of issue was raised to 09, The war credits voted by the Reichstag have been as under: — ■. '• £ ■ 'August, 1914 250,000,000 December, 1914 ... 250,000,000 March, 1915 ...... 500,000,000 August, 1915 ...... 500,000,000 £1,500,000,000 And judging by the amount of the fourth war loan another £500,000,000 has been voted, which would bring the total credits to £2,000,000,000.