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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17095, 18 February 1916, Page 10

I marvelled at the deep and secret force of France in observing the queue waiting to subscribe to the loan at the Pavilion de Flore at the Louvre (writes the Paris correspondent of the “ Observer ”). Every rank was represented. Bank garcons (or walk clerks) were there in their three-cornered hats, old cabmen in their shiny toppers,- policemen and soldiers from the front, concierges and charwomen without their hats, as well ns the smaller fry of the professions and shopkeepers that have thousand-franc, notes to dispose of. And the wonder of it was the wealth that emerged from unlikely quarters. A woman close to me, whose shabby dross and gaunt features suggested endless privation, produced notes and gold m profusion. They may have represented tho savings of a lifetime —but in this country of minute distribution ol wealth appearances are olten deeoptiv a-