UNITED STATES.
THE LIBERTY LOAN. , A WAVE OP ENTHUSIASM. . Washington, Oct. 25. There'if a remarkable wave of interfeat in the Liberty loan, which has reached almost 2}- billions. There is the keenBit Utralry 'between cities. Chicago is leading with 57"per cent, of her quota. Prominent actresses and politicians, in•lading Sir George Reid, are auctioning >on9s in the streets and stores. The maximum effort will be made tonorrojr (Liberty Day), when hundreds at aviators will drop appeals broadcast in prottinent centres. The United States must raise 500 million daily in order to reach five billion. Standard Oil has taken 50 millions and Rockefeller 5 million. Mr. M'Adoo has made a statement lrging that bonds be given as Christmas presents: It is estimated that the seized German property and money in the United States Mil swell the Liberty Loan by 200 to 800 pillions, : LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED. ANTI-U-BOAT DEVICES.
4. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received Oct. 28, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Oct. 27. has carried the Liberty Loan towards the Ave billion maximum. i% The Government also seizes the property of Bulgarians, Austrians and Turks residing in America. Edison and a large staff of assistants have returned to New York, after spending weeks on the high seas, experimenting; with anti-submarine devices. They endeavored to duplicate U-boat methods in every detail. Edison refuses to make My statement as to the results. DISTRESS IN GERMANY. ■r " IMMENSE HOLDINGS OF RAW '' ' ' MATERIALS. LOAN TO FRANCE. Washington, Oct. 26. A semi-official despatch indicates thai General Cadorna is preparing an importantjtaovemeat. . Qftjclal advices show political and economic distress in Germany, and that discontent is acute.- Socialists are most active and threaten to tie up the factories if the war extends into the winter. More frequent uprisings occur in several districts, including Berlin, where soldiers participated. The German population wants peace, and the people declare that it mus* he concluded by November. Workmen are demanding increased pay and a mote liberal apportionment of food. Allied air raids are increasing the discontent. A raid on Essen killed eight hundred soldiers who> were attending a Circus. i Secret Service agents have difcovered that the Germans are secretly holding in the United States immense quantities of cotton, copper, oil and raw materials accumulated for use after the war. These will be commandeered and used for America's war preparations. The seizures will seriously affect Germany's post-war trade plans.The Treasury announces a loan of 20 million to France. The total lent to France'so far is 790 millions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1917, Page 5
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