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Show HOPE FOB UHH GHIGJP TOP ( Latest Reports Show Total Not Far Short of Three Billions. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. German peace talk and Spanish influenza, the two great obstacles encountered in the fourth Liberty loan campaign, will not be permitted per-mitted to defeat plans for obtaining more than the six billion dollars,' although half of that amount must be raised in the next six days. Reports from all parts of the country tonight indicated that the American peo ple were fully aroused to the danger of failure through belief that Germany's offer to agree to President Wilson's peace terms meant an early end of the war. Committees everywhere set out to dispel this feeling among the public, while thousands thou-sands of other workers, by house-to-house canvasses, met the situation created by the influenza epidemic. From scattering official returns received re-ceived here today on subscriptions taken shortly after noon yesterday, the treasury treas-ury announced that approximately S'2,5nC.-000. S'2,5nC.-000. 0O0 had been subscribed through incorporated in-corporated banks and trust companies. With reports in previous campaigns as a basis it was fair to assume, the announcement an-nouncement said, that the total was not far short of three billion dollars. Thou sands of new volunteers will begin work in everv district tomorrow, and there was a hopeful feeling at headquarters that the country would go over the top. Returns tonight showed the following gains by districts for ' Saturday : New York, $49,000,000: Chicago, $27.-000 $27.-000 000- Cleveland, $22,000,000; Kan Francisco Fran-cisco $19 000, ("10: PMladtlnhii, $h;.1'i.i, I, and Kansas City, $14,000,000. Although official figures on sales in the St. Louis district for Saturday are unavailable, it apparently still leads all districts in the per cent of quota subscribed. It had 70 per cent of its quota on Friday. The city of St. Louis, despite the influenza, has 61 per cent of its quota. The reported sales by states: Colorado, 13 943 000; Kansas. $2."i.3.f 1.000 : Missouri. S"!8'683'l00; Nebraska. $20,068,000; New Mexico $815,150; Oklahoma, $13,224,800, and Wyoming $3,280.35" San Francisco reported: Alaska. 51,-370 51,-370 000- Arizona. $3. 007. 150; northern California. $71,615,850: southern California Califor-nia $37 199 350- Hawaii. S7.lo3.8n0: Idaho. $1 897 950; Oregon. $27.6S8,550: Utah. $10..-900,250, $10..-900,250, and Washington. $36, 3d . .'.mo. |