UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1915, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

LOAN TO THE ALLIES.' ' .-. LIVES OF OOMMSSIDNEES ENDANGERED. New York, Sept. 15, Owing .to widespread German plots against the Financial Commission, whose lives are threatened, the American secret service is providinc 'bodyguards for iLord Beading and other members. The sessions of the commission are secret, and the dates of the sittings are not published, and other precautions are taken. * Pro-Germans are threatening to cause runs on the hanks tfoqvgneiiii the States if any support is accorded to the Allies. The United States Government has decided that the loan is an ordinary commercial' transaction, and therefore the Government it not going to interfere, . . v THE LOAN. COMMISSIONERS. LIVES IN DANGER. Received Sept. 16, 11.10 p.m. New York, Sept 16. Fifty threatening letters have been received by the Anglo-French loan.commissioners, some of them menacing jtheir lives. The letters have been handed to the police, and the numbers of the commissioners' bodyguard have been doubled. ~ GERMANY CRINGING. A RUPTURE IMPROBABLE. Received Sept. 16, 11.10 p.m. New York, Sept. 16. New York papers publish a Berlin cable stating that Americans in Berlin believe that Germany will never allow her relations with the United States to be severed, because that would si&ui her retirement frjmi the field and a further cementing of the fellowship between the Allies and America. SOON BE SETTLED. COUNT BERNSTORFF'S OPINION. Received Sept. 16, 11.10 p.m. New York, Sept. 16. Count Bernstorff, in an interview with the New York World, said that all difficulties with Germany and the United States will be settled within a fortnight.