Show i Break Bieak in Bonds Engineered Engi By Ira C. C Tichenor or 3 1 INTIMATIONS INTIMATIONS are arc coming oming out of Wall Vall street that the sensa sensa- r 1 break in iq Liberty bond prices last ast we weeks week was engineered by byi I i i powerful stock market bears as par part of their plans to to- depress d press prices AV o on 1 the New York stock exchange A suspicion that s such ch w was vas s' s tIe the 5 case as Is- Is strengthened is-strengthened by the known tact fact act that at least one ote prominent stock x ex exchange l anJe house was in evidence as a large lare seller of ot Liberty bon bonds s.-at s. at th the tint signs of ot the break i o S SSt h 7 I y St V. V 5 Additional strong evide evidence ce that the the break break w was s' s se e engineered a the fact tact facts fact's l s 's that at in In the subsequent marked recovery of Liberty bonds showed that the thel l market had be been n badly oversold Too the fact tact that Liberty 3 s and Victory y r tes which were scarcely affected by the declIne ren remained practically to the subsequent recovery in other Issues t tends to prove S V r that liat th the break was to a great extent at least artificial Bond dealers generally now entertain the belief bellet that the object of the Jt attack itacI on Liberty bonds was to create the impression that the liquidation in f shocks o of all kinds was vas general and thus cause In prices I-I I all allI S I at ng the line S L 1 As s' s predicted would be the case when the tIle new new lows for for Liberty b bonds S W S z re r reached ached ched they met buying oril orders rs which h have ve ca caused s Ci a rapid re recover rY I ls evident that investors and the general public have again be become ortle inter inter- j eted tilted In n Liberty bonds and the renewed interest on the purchasing 1 d c. c n t raly will mean mean a still further recovery in prices S f. f With this example of f what se seemingly is a a. certainty that hat th break break i in s- s g Issues was engineered it Is that the general S p public jwill n not t again fall tall into a trap set by stock exchange manipulators nn an and i will II r refuse tuse to dump their bonds upon the market at the first indication of ot iC t tS S S i S sign of of weakness should it again appear S S SS S At the the recent low figures government issues compared favorably In point of return with the higher interest rates of many industrials but this comparison comparison com corn parison prIson will of course diminish as the prices of ot Liberty bonds advance Stilt it still it must be remembered that the the credit of ot the United States government government S S S I ls the highest of ot all and naturally the governments government's securities should hould Iho rd normally S SS sell ll to return a a. a smaller yield than of ot other borrowers |