LBERTY LO $3035 22650 War Issue Oversubscribed Nearly 52 Per Cent Large Subscriptions Will Be Scaled So As To Bring Loan To $2,000,000, 000-—McAdoo Pleased With Public's Response. Liberty Loan sub- $3,035,226,850, Washington. scriptions totaled The final tabulation was officially announced, showing that more than 4, 200,000 persons bought bonds. Ninety. three per cent. of subscriptions, those of 3,960,000 persons were sums varying from 350 to ments of $5,000,000 each or more. The New York Federal trict led the list with totaling $1,186,788,400, three times the amount reserve dis or more than as follows: Boston, $332. 447,600; $286,148,700; Philadelphia, 250; San Francisco, £175.623.900: Rich- mond, $109,737,100; Kansas City, $91. 758,850; St. Louis, $86,134,700 apolis, $70,255,600; Atlanta, 357,878,550, and Dallas, $48,948,350 Full Allotment To $10,000. These subscriptions sent portioned districts. Allotments will be McAdoo announced, On subscriptions up to and ing $10,000 full amount. These scriptions totaled $1,296,684 850 More than $10,000 up to and ine ing $100,000, 60 per cent subscribed, but not in any instance. These totaled 3$560,103,050; scribers in 336,061,850 More than $100,000 up to and ineclud- ing $250,000, 45 per cent. of the amount subscribed, but not than in any instance group totalred ments will Cleveland, included Treasury various direct to the among the made, Secretary as follows ud i Ff +3 ¥ "nM of the amount than $10 subscriptions less allotments to this group will legs $220.455.600 and aggregate $09,205,000 ing $2,000,000, 30 per cent., but not less than $112,500 in any instance total of subscriptions in was $601514,900; allotments will $184,281 800 than $2,000,000 $6,000,000 each, this AZ. gregate More cluding but no less to and cent, any up 25 per than $600,000 instance. Subscriptions in totaled $234.544.300: allotments total $58,661,250 Three Asked For Over $25,000,000. More t $6.000,000 up and In- cluding $10,000,000 each, 21 per Subscriptions in $46,874,150; allotments $9,801,600 Two subscriptions of $25,000,000 each were received. The allotments these subscribers will be at of 20.22 per cent bonds of the value of $5.055.000 each One subscriber to $25,250,000 largest—will be given 20.17 per cent, or $5,093,850. Conclusive Answer To Enemy. in tt one t will han to cent this group totaled will aggre the rate campaign was to distribute the Liberty Bonds widely throughout the country the hands of the people. important because the streugth of Government finance, like the strength of Government policies, rests upon the support of the people. The large num- ber of subscribers, especially the large number of small subscribers, Is most gratifying and indicates that the inter. est of the people was aroused as never before in an issue of bonds. AIRSHIPS RAID BRITAIN. Zeppelin Brought Down After Coast Town Had Been Set On Fire. London.—German airships made a raid on the east and southeast coast of England Sunday. One Zeppelin was the raiders had dropped bombs Kent. $500,000 AMBULANCE GIFT, Ford Motor Company Makes Donation To Red Cross. Detroit.—Five hundred thousand dol- lars’ worth of Ford ambulances will be given to the Red Cross. This de cision was reached at a meeting of the board of directors of the Ford Motor Company. OUR FLYERS IN FRANCE, Fifty American Aviators Welcomed By the French, Nice, France. —Fifty American avia tors arrived here to undergo a course of instruction at the seaplane depot. They were given the heartiest of wel comes by their French comrades, RUSSIA T0 STAND is Crushed. Kerensky Whipping Army Into Shape For U. 8. Prompt Recognition Of Republic. People Grateful Washington.—Russia’s consecratior to a war to end with German autocracy was avowed by Special Am bassador Boris A. Bakhmetieff, head of the Russian mission in a st the here, ate ment to the American people Only through victory, said, a stable world peace and the fruits of \he Russian revolution be he secured Russia Reorganizing. “The Russian people thoroughly | derstand and fully convin« said Mr. Bakhmetieff, “that it is abso lutely necessary to cratic principles which represented by German threatens the are root out the auto underlie are milits which and | iam, peace, { freedom world.” All classes the happiness of in Russia, the Ambassado said, are concentrated on the enormous task of reconstruction made necessary by the sweeping away of the evils the old regime and already noti » vant i) TYE Ire aren es army Minister Brings Thank Kerensi s To U. 8. “le § f in He i Of moral among our people : ong profound appreciation _e an tween the upon complete and tanding ( gincere & in ! ancoun ney hie aur regiine i situation is ing th nature changed new ra in her deep feeling of existed between the peo noy Russi; national | ly with free a | natural which always and ympathy ple of the two now. by table fr & COO * +03 ration Hopes For Close Union. : Fait er object of our mission is most effective American and Russian eq can work hand-in-hand in the common task of successfully carry ing on war. The friendly ance wh the United States ready Anoth establish the means by th ae which democrac the aseiat 1 ich has al rendered has been of the h high U-BOAT LOSSES ON INCREASE. Thirty-Three British Vessels Sunk During Week Ended June 20. London. —Twentyaeven British ships of more than 1.600 tons sunk, according to the weekly British summary given out Wednesday. Five British vessels under 1.600 tons also were gent to the bottom. No fishing vessels were destroyed. The sum. mary is as follows Arrivals, 2.897; sailings, 2,993 British merchant ships over 1,600 tons sunk by mine or submarine, in cluding 3 previously, 27; under 1,600 tonsa, including 1 previously, 5. British merchant ships unsuccess fully attacked, including 7 previously, 31 British fishing vessels sunk, none Three Ships Reported Sunk. Boston <The loss of steamers, with eargoes worth millions and of one Duteh vessel by German submarines was announced here, while regarding another British steamer it was reported that she had been float ed and towed to a British port after being seriously damaged and beached in the Mediterranean. i AR a no BATTLE FIERCER IN TYROL. Italian and Austrian Guns Shake En tire Mountain Range. Amsterdam. The Cologne Guzette's correspondent on the Tyrolean fren! gays that the new battle on the Betis Communi Plateau has assumed extraordinary dimensions. © Dramfire continued the whole nights teaching such: violence in the morning that the mountains in all Southern Tyrol re echoed. The battle, sfiys (he eorre gpondent, extendas along the entire front from the Sngana Valley Asingo, ‘ | 3 » Vem— Copynght.) RESIDENT CALLS FOR VOLUNTEERS June 23-30 Recruiting Week For Regulars. STRENGTH OF 300,000 AIM Proclamation Issued To Request Of Army Officers—Men Are Asked To Serve Only For Dura tion Of the War Pres DECESRATY the war reverb tmen Ww 818] DROW WII 300,000 By June 30 Aim. i) aalk ad me ARKeQ the n are period of war the Regular ould be brought to its whole oximately 300.000 by June 30, which would have men ‘ar Department to plans in regard to forces to be raised permitted the carry out its training of all the and also tO Fr ever, the as to the dispatch of armies days, the average enrollment for Army per day has® been little more than 1.000 men instead of the 5.000 or more the department hoped to secure For several how RCo the TWO TORPEODES MISSED. German Submarine Fired Twice At American Steamer. An Atlantic Port-—An American steamer reported an engagement with May 28, in whieh the U-boat fired two torpedoes, one at her bow and one at her stern, but neither found its mark The naval gunners fired but do not After ten shots from the steamer the submarine disap peared Off the coast of Ireland of was of ship the a Norwegian torpedoed and sunk crew which Crossing the English Channel the calls but was boats not to reply. advised by patrol WILSON BACKS AIRCRAFT BILL. Measure Carrying $600,000,000 Will Be Introduced Next Week. Washington.-—~Approval given the Defense Council's aircraft bill by President Wilson and it will be introduced in Congress this weak It will provide an initial appropriation of $600,000,000 and the program calls for construction within a year of between 26.000 and 30,000 airplanes, BIG FIRE AT IRVINGTON. Destroyed. Warsaw, Va Fire destroyed the Virginia Citizen's office and plant, store and stock of Fagunby & Son, offices of ¥. G. Newbill and Dr. W. J. Newbill and the National Bank, WHEN WORKING ir WE GARDEN, FEDERAL PDS TRIAL CITVME is PRACTIOAL £4) 2 PROPER SIM'S IN COMMAN OF ALLIED FLEET American Will Try His Hand in Irish Waters HIS RESPONSIBILITY HEAVY Thousands Of Naval Vessels Gathered Combat tm ghin Steamship There To Submarines and Keep Lanes Oper given Admiral Sims addi power to meet any con on that may arise ” Oo Much of his time London and Paris, and the first to indicate ¥y ' nt | has bes spent in the ad he latest vices are that has been at sea with his ships It was said at the department, how ever, the officer determined himself the beat course to pursue and would spend all his time afloat if he regarded that as advisable that “" for Has Great Responsibilities. Tremendous responsibilities have been placedon Admiral Sima’ shoul ders. The tale of torpedoed ships in Irish waters is an often-repeated one It has been said that even without the American vessels, the British have had thousands of destroyers, submarine chasers of all sizes and kinds, mine sweepers, alrcraft and every other known method of combatting sub marines posted in these waters in the effort to keep open the shipping lanes May Have Effect On Ireland in some quarters it was pointed out that the announcement that the Ameri can officer had been placed, even tem porarily, In command of British forces greatly superior to those under the 70 THE BELGIANS | Declares Their: Country Shall | Be Restored. THE FORMAL PRESENTATION i 1 | Expresses the Nation's Appreciation For the Generous Outburst Of Sympathy Shown By the American Nation, Washington war «in gresting Monday President Wil de- da) Husson America’s 80] nevis S0n termination tl of 1G expressed emn 14t on the able victory restored the among the ed natior The sigium shall be ¢ has so richl won self-respecting and of the earth, sEioners place gh iy resp eee ¥ comm them to th Mone Albert ss Bel King GREAT AID TO BELGIUM Eleven Ships Arrive Since June 7; That Many More On Way. The American ( in Belgium ann June 7 eleven London ‘ommission for Relief Bins carrying nced of their ships an aggregate of 50,000 tons of foodstuffs, have arrived at Rotter ill in the next woeks The receipt of this foodstuff will aid in relieving the serious food shortage in portions of Belgium and France w reach that port the occupied SMALL SUBSCRIBERS FIRST. Full Amount Of Liberty Loan Bonds. Washington Treasury officials have reached a tentative decision that all subscribers to the Liberty bond of fering in amounts of $10,000 or less ghall receive their full subscriptions Any reduction necessary because the oversubseription will come higher amounts. Revised unofficial estimates as to the total subscriptions today placed the figures at approx: imately $2,825,000,000. To Receive HIS HOPE FOR NEW RUSSIA, | Gorky Believes Knowledge and Work Will Cure All Evils. It might tend to show beyond question, | American Governments were in per i fect accord, i hI AS SAS ARINS, i GERMAN CASUALTIES. | Total Over Four Million, Three Hun. dred and Fifty Thousand. London. ~The German casualties as | reported in the German official cas {ualty lists in the month of May fol low: Killed and died of wounds or sick. 26,582; wounded, 62304. | 956, These casualtios added to those pre. viously reported give the following total since the beginning of the war: Killed and died of wounds or sick ness, 1,068,127; prisoners and missing, { 657,410; wounded, 2,731,223; total, 4, | 356,760. Total, Petrograd. — Maxim QGorky, the author, is taking the lead in & wide { spread movement for political and | economic reconstruction of Russian af. | fairs on the basis of universal appli | cation of science to practical life. M. Gorky, in collaboration with other dis- tinguished writers and men of science is starting “the free association for development and dissemination of the positive sciences.” a HRSA SAAMI SS GUILTY OF ANTI-DRAFT PLOT. Former Columbia Students Recomm. mended To Mercy. New York.-—~The jury in the case of | Owen Cattell and Charles F. Phillips, former Columbia University students, charged with conspiring to obstruct the operation of the Selective Draft law, returned a verdict of guilty in the Federal District Court. The jury deliberated five hours and recommend. ed mercy in announcing the verdict IN CANADA No Financial Depression, and None Since the War Began. A well-known correspondent of an ly made an extended visit to Western Canada, and in summing up re- sults, after going thoroughly into con- ditions there, says there (8 no financial depression in Canada, nor has there been anything of the sort since the war began. Anyone whe has watched the barometer of trade, and seen the bank clearings of the different cities grow and continue to arrived at the same trade statistics reveal a like situstion. The progress farmers gre making is highly sati sfactory. As this correspondent wy there have been adaptations t new conditions, and taxes re- vised, and that a very large burden of added expense in many lines ha assumed, but it has all been thodicelly, carefully and with 1 the grow will conciusion. have The i that t & BAYS: t is true 0 meet have heen 8 been done me- ré- “That this has been done fairly and wisely is proved by the present com- fortable financial position. “With the exception of a restricted The greater must portion of the Dominion classed as agricultural ares, with only an infini- tesimal part of | “Lacking complete developme agricultural g naturally placed its upon fewer the case in the States be t fully developed. nt a0 the portion resources times, business would VY 0 the narrower 1 it rests, “Thus. Uf Canada » ur: to the w iclency and advance “Canada’s first strength lay In i sten its civilian This sy ha it makes ina irces of the Dominion fluid : plies of capital can run quick the high spots antages: o the low spots; nd e combined places at the 1 branch 1 the whole 80 there Is an efficient safeguard strein at any one of each re. sources of institution that against point, “Here in Winnipeg, the sll-Canada banking houses maintain big, strong and, as in Dominion, these held to an attitude of saneness and solidity that prevented even the start of any financial dis- turbance, That business generally is now com- ing strong on an even keel is largely to the absolute refusal of the yanks, both h and independent, exhibit lightest signs, of ex- a1 hensiveness, savings bank nning wit pear end- severe branches elsewhere the lue Fy vs the a the nishing. Beg wey are, for the fiscal ing March 31: «roe. 36022.028 068 663.650,230 683.761.432 758,160,212 888,765,608 “These figures represent what Cana- dians have put away after paying the increased living cost, which is sbout the same as in the States, all increas es in taxes and Imports of all kinds made necessary by the war and gen- erous subscriptions to war bond is sues. “Prohibition has helped greatly in keeping the money supplies circulat- Tradesmen generally attribute a large part of the good financial condition to “Financially, as in every other re- cy. She has done it In spite of initial cohditions which would not look prom- “One of the best things we did,” said one of the leading Winnipeg bankers game that we simply would not borrew “We started in Ignorance of how the ing exactly what our resources were, and had to find the way. “And yet Canadians are not overbur- people there has been but a slight tax Increase, if any, In a direct way, In- direct payments, of course, are made in the shape of higher prices for living commodities, but the price advance on such items is no heavier than in the States In the same period."—Advertise- ment, There are 70 national bird reserva. tions, of which 87 are in charge of the department of agriculture. Dr. Peery's “Dead 8h Benge” or * 2" but a is not a “Soo dose of m fashioned ot” real old. WI a Sapte ee Agora Rabbit skins are going to be used In great numbers by furriers next sea son,
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