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Show BRITISH LOAN TO BESUCCESS Tremendous Effort Throughout Through-out Great Britain to Bring iin Every Available Shilling. HUGE SUM IS NEEDED Must Raise 506,000,000; Pounds Sterling to Insure Clean Slate by April 1. London. Fob lf. 11 a. m A tre- j mendous effort was m de throughout Great Britain today, the last day fori subscriptions to the British war loan, to bring In every available shilling. The last minute rush, so characteristic characteris-tic of British investors, was expected to result In a very large total for the day as the capstone for ttie huge ingatherings in-gatherings of the last month. There seems to be no question In financial circles that the loan will be a success almost beyond the most sanguine san-guine expectations. How large a total is necessary to make the loan a success suc-cess is a question to which no definite! ( answor is available. The national J accounts indicate 5C0, 000,000 pounds Sterling new money is needed to insure in-sure a clean slate for the government I on entering the next financial year on i April l. The government expects to! i obtain not only this amount but I V I enough more to carry it a considerable I U distance through the new financial) year. jfl The largo amount of money taken ) off the market yesterday and today was indicated by a sharp rise in daily and weekly loans to C 1-4 per cent. It will be at least another fortnight ; before it will be possible to give even approximate figures of the amount of JM new money subscribed, or of the total JO conversions. i fr |