UNITED STATES.
WAR LOAN CAMPAIGN. New York, Sept. 29. The main thoroughfares of the cities were elaborately bedecked with American and Allied national flags and colors. Millions of flags hung from the windows of bouses everywhere. In New York there were extraordinary scenes at the opening of the campaign. All the factory whistles blew, the guns of the warships and forts in tlie harbor boomed, church bells rang, thousands of drums beat, and martial musie was played by bands. Thousands of soldiers and sailors in the streets and other places saluted and stood at attention for five minutes, facing eastward as a mark of to the American and Allied soldiers fighting on the west front, and thousands of civilians stood bareheaded. New Yorkers subscribed 200 million dollars on the first day.—Aus. N.Z. Cable ASSOC.; .
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1918, Page 3
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134UNITED STATES. Taranaki Daily News, 1 October 1918, Page 3
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