AMERICA'S LIBERTY LOAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10118, 27 October 1917, Page 5

AMERICA'S LIBERTY LOAN.

confiscated german proper TIES AND MONEYS. HELP to swell the total, Australian-New Zealand Cable AssociationReceived October 27, 8.55 a.m. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. A remarkable Wave of interest is showing in connection with the Liberty Loan. A 1 most two and a-half billions has been .subscribed, and there is the keenest rivalry be tween the cities, Chicago leading with 57 per cent, of the quota. Prominent actresses and politicians, including Sir George Reid, are auctioneering bonds in the streets and stores, 'lire maximum effort will be made to-morrow, Liberty Day, when hundreds of aviators will drop appeals broadcast in the most prominent centres. The United States must raise five hundred millions daily, in order Id reach five billions. The Standard Oil Trust has taken fifty millions, and Mr Rockefeller five. Mr William Gibbs, the Secretary of the Treasury, made a statement urging that bonds be given as Christmas presents. It is estimated that the seized Gorman property and money in the United States will swell the Liberty Loarp by from two hundred to eight hundred millions.

Secret. Service agents have discovered that Germans are secretly holding in the United States immense quantities of cotton, copper. oil, and raw materials, accumulated for use after the war. These will be commandeered and used for America's war preparations. The seizures seriously affect Germany's postwar trade plans.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT'S APPEAL. TO SEE THE KATSER'S MOUTH GO DOWN. Received October 27. 10.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Oct, 26. Tho Treasury Department is specially appealing to the people to subscribe to the £1.000.000,000 Liberty Loan, to greatly eclipse the past German loans. They say that the. nearer the loan approaches the £1,000.000.000 mark the further the comers of the Kaiser's mouth will go down.