THE WAR LOAN.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1917, Page 5

THE WAR LOAN.

MONEY POURING IX. London, .lan. 15 Subscriptions of new 1 niopev for the great War Loan are pouring in. Although the bank closed at the usual hour, the lank of England's loan office was open yesterday until fi o'clock. A nteaih stream.of investors all day j testified to the eagerness to help the' [ country in the hour of crisis, thus sug-; gpsting a widespread inspiration to se- j cure a far larger number of individual: | subscribers than was the e:\se for the • preceding loans. i Newspapers emphasise that while Or- ! many lias been unable to touch us in most things, she ras certainly beaten us' in the number of small subscribers to j her various loans. Happily, the London bank managers and clerks yesterday re-' ported that they never knew a time' when calls on their aptitude for rapid I and concentrated business were so numerous. Splendid reports It ve been received from every part of the Kingdom. (Renter Service, I Received Jan. 10, pa London. Jan. IS j'lie Imperial Tobac::p Company is subscribing £2,500,000 to the War Loan, which is made up of nearly all new money. DOMINION'S' COMMISSION REPOT!" (Renter Servici.) Received Jan. Ifi, 5 5 p.rr.. Lonlon, Jan. la. It is stated that the report of the Dominions' Royal Commission \v : 11 be issued in February. It is anticipated that large reductions of. the cable rates are proposed, and that the Commission supports the laying of, Government cables from Britain to Canada and Australia. THIRTY-SIX STEAMERS ORDERED. London, Jan. 15. The Manchester Guardian states that Sir Joseph Mac Lav has ordered on behalf of the State 3G standardised merchant steamers of 9000 tons. PRIZE COURT AW ARDS London, Jan. 15. The Prize Court has awarded £5500 in bounty to ships, including the New Zealand, participating in the sinking of the Blucher. IMPROVED CONDITIONS AT ftUIILEBEN. London, Jan. 15. Civilians who have arrived in England from Germany state that tlie conditions at RuMeben have improved. The Germans are no longer r.rrogaYit n nd boastful. Germany's poverty is strikingly revealed by the ; hanged attitude of the children, who were formerly insolent, but now linger outside the compound, and eagerly snatch particles of food which tlie English throw out. THE PREMIER'S ACTIVITY. London, Jan. 15. Mr. Lloyd George is rapidly improving the clearing house for Cabinet business which has absorbed the former War Committee of Imperial Defence, e.uab* ling Captain Maurice Hankey n become Secretary \;o the Cabinet, with several military and civil assistants. This is essential, as Mr. Lloyd George and Lords Curzon and Mil'ier have no departments with the ordinary machinery for transacting business. Mr. Lloyd George lias r.lso enlisted the services of such men as Mr: Philip Kerr (editor of the Round Table) and Professor Adams (an Oxford economist) to work'under his immediate direction.