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Show LIBERTY LOAN OVER FIVE BIUJOH MARK (OVER EIGHT MILLION AMERI-CANS AMERI-CANS OPEN PURSE STRINGS IN AID OF OUR BOYS AT FRONT. Federal Reserve Banks Struggle Under Un-der Avalanche of Last Minute Subscriptions, Sub-scriptions, Over Billion Dollars Coming in Last Day. Washington. The American people have again shown their loyalty. When the second Liberty loan drive ended Saturday night over five billion dollars dol-lars had been subscribed, considerably over a billion dollars being raised in the final day's drive. Just how much the amount desired was oversubscribed Is not known, and will not be for several sev-eral days, as the report of subscriptions subscrip-tions from different sections have not all been received. Secretary McAdoo announced late Saturday night that the second Liberty Lib-erty loan had been an overwhelming success. "It is a great honor," said the secretary, secre-tary, "to be able to announce that the second Liberty loan has been greatly oversubscribed. It will be several days before final figures can be given. "The challenge of the German kaiser has been answered by the free people peo-ple of America in unmistakable terms." Federal reserve banks are struggling strug-gling under an avalanche of last-min-tite subscriptions to form some idea of the grand total. Indications are that they will not complete their tabulation tabu-lation for several days. At least 8,000,000 persons throughout through-out the country wrote their names on application blanks. How many more did so will not be known until the final count several days hence. The number may go as high as 10,000,000. A last-day drive of titanic proportions propor-tions throughout the nation rounded pp more than $1,000,000,000 and was believed to have carried the total several sev-eral hundred million dollars beyond the maximum sum treasury officials tad hoped for. Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, Colorado, Col-orado, and in fact, all the western states, responded nobly to the request for funds, the subscriptions being an answer in no unmistakable terms to the kaiser. The American people have shown that they are in this war to a finish and that finish will be a victory for the allied forces and the downfall of Prusslanism and militarism. militar-ism. The people of Utah subscribed $15,-260,000 $15,-260,000 to the second Liberty loan a little more than $5,000,000 more than was expected from that state. |