FERVID DEMONSTRATIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 September 1918, Page 8

FERVID DEMONSTRATIONS

LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN.

OPENED WITH TREMENDOUS

ENTHUSIASM.

(Received Sep. 30, 9.10 a.m.) NEW Y6RK, Sep. 29. Th« ______ thoroughfares of the cities are elaborately bedecked with the* American and Allied national flags and colors, and millions of flage are hung from windows and houses everywhere. In Philadelphia there was a procession of tens of thousands of munitions, shipyards and other workers, attired in their working clothes, and led by military and naval bands. Reports from cities throughout the oountry show heavy subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty Loan. There was an unprecedented patriotic demonstration in New York and extraordinary scenes on the opening of the campaign. All factory whistles were blown, guns on the warships and forts in the harbor boomed, the church bells rang, thousands of drums beat, and martial music v?as 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 respect to the American and Allied soldiers fighting oh the West front. Thousands of civilians stood bare-headed. New Yorkers subscribed two hundred million dollars on the first day. The Times' Washington correspondent satys that Americans flying with Jhe British forces on the West front brought down fifty enemy aeroplanes and seven balloons from July 1 to August 20, according to figures received by the War Department.—Aus.N.Z.; Cable Assn. .