BRITISH QUEST
BRITISH WAR LOAN. LONDON, March 19. The Ministry of Supply is hoping to get 100,000 tons of steel by tearing up disused train lines. Half the amount? will come from Greater London. REGULATION OF INTEREST. RUGBY, March 19. Sir John Simon’s announcement of the over-subscription of the war loan -v'is received by the Press with gratification, but without surprise. The' “Daily Telegraph” says: It is a notably auspicious index of Britain’s financial strength that, after seven months of war, the Government credit is appreciably higher than it was at the outbreak.
The Press agrees that three per j cent, should be the “ceiling for this war.” 1
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Grey River Argus, 21 March 1940, Page 8
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