LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 October 1917, Page 5

LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN.

■KEENEST INTEREST MANIFESTED

SEIZURE OF GERMAN-HELD

COMMODITIES

ENEMY'S POST-WAR TRADE

PLANS AFFECTED

(Received Oct. 27, 9.10 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26

There is a remarkable wave of interest in the Liberty Loan, which has almost reached 2£ billions, and the keenest rivalry between cities.. Chicago is leading. Prominent actretsesand politicians, including Sir Geoige Reid, are auctioning honds m tbe streets and stores.

A maximum effort will be made tomorrow, Liberty Day, when hundreds of aviators will drop appeals broadcast in prominent centres. The United States must raise five hundred millions daily in order to r>?ach five billions. The Standard Oil Co. has taken .50 millions and Mr Rockefeller five v millions. ;

Mr McAdoo has made a statement urging that bonds should be given as Christmas presents.

It is estimated that the seizing of German property and money in the United States will swell the Liberty Loan by 200 to 800 millions.

Secret service agents have discovered that Germans are secretly holdin-.r in the United States immense quantities of cotton, copper, oil and raw materials, which have been accumulated for use after the war. These will be commandeered and used for America's war preparations. The seizures will seriougly affect Germany's post-war trade j>san«.