THE ALLIES’ LOAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 31

THE ALLIES’ LOAN.

LONDON, October 3. The Berliner Tageblatt admits the success of the Allies’ loan in America, and acknowledges its disappointment. It castigates President Wilson’s strange conception of neutrality in not opposing the loan. Germany’s consolation is that the Allies are piling up such a debt that England’s financial domination of the world will be smashed for ever. NEW YORK, October 4. The subscriptions to the Allies’ loan already to amount to 700,000,000 dollars. GENERAL BOTHA. JOHANNESBURG, October 3. General Botha strongly repudiates the suggestion by Nationalist opponents that President Kruger, when fleeing, handed him 134 gold bars, valued at a quarter of a million sterling, which was unaccounted for at a time when the Treasury was almost depleted. GENERAL NEWS. LONDON, October 3. Thirty recruiting rallies have been held throughout the provinces. At Eastbourne 1500 men in hospital uniform paraded. The Morning Post computes the prize money that has accumulated for the officers and men of the navy at £4,000,000, of which nothing has been distributed. It complains that the Government, by purchasing confiscated cargoes, deprives the navy of participation. AMSTERDAM, October 3. A German patrol boat struck a mine at the mouth of the Ems and was beached on Borkum Island. SYDNEY, October 4. ■ Mr W 7. M. Hughes emphatically denies an anonymous mining magnate’s statements regarding the effect of his action being to hold up munition metal. The commonwealth’s acquisition of such metal had been carried out under the British Government’s instructions, in order to prevent exploitation and to ensure supplies reaching Britain. BRISBANE, October 4. The Defence Department has accepted the Railway Commissioners’ offer to supply 50,000 18-pounder high explosive shell bodies at a minimum rate of 2500 weekly, commencing on December 18. HOBART, October 4. An outbreak of meningitis has occurred at Claremont military camp, and nine cases are reported.