THE WAR LOAN.
A CALL TcShE FREE
Britain, with her Allies, is fighting for the liberty of mankind—that you and those who come alter you may live as free people in a free world. Great Britain crushed! What of New ZeaUfud? Help the Motherland How? Ly lending your savings to the btate to provide men, munitions, ships, and foodstuffs. Do you realise what vast treasures Great Britain has poured out in this gigantic struggle? She has spent over five thousand millions or pounds; *he is spending £7,000,000 a day in the greatest battle of all time, which we are told is to be waged this year on the Western front. The British Army will fire away one thousand million pounds' Avorth of shells. Immediately behind our millions of fighting men are great armies of doctors, nurses, hospital attendants, munition •md food carriers, and workers of all kinds. In Britain itself 15,000,009 people are tolng at the manufacture of Lhe necessary shells and the guns and the food, and the thousand requirements of transport. The less we borrow from Britain the more money she will have to pay these sturdy toilers for a world's l.eace". Be a true New Zealander. Sub. scrihe yourself and got others to take war bonds and certificates.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17241, 20 March 1918, Page 4
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211THE WAR LOAN. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17241, 20 March 1918, Page 4
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