BORROWING FROM AMERICA.
GERMAN PLOTS AGAINST ANGLOFRENCH COMMISSION.
(Received September 1,6. 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 15. Owing to widespread German plots against the Financial Commission, whose lives are threatened, the American Secret Service is providing bodyguards for Lord Reading and other members. Sessions of the Commission have been secretly held. The dates of the sittings are not published, and other precautions have been taken.
Pro-Germans are threatening to cause runs on the banks throughout the. States if any support is accorded to the Allies.
The United States Government has decided that the loan, is an ordinary commercial transaction, and therefore the Government is not going to interfere.
(Received September 16, 9.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 16. It is understood that several of the States have sounded the American money market as to the possibility of loans and that the results were disappointing; owing to fear of international complications. The idea of raising money m America has since been abandoned.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13790, 16 September 1915, Page 3
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