The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . 000,000 300,000,000 300,000,000 250,000,000 210,000,000 120,000,000 120,000,000 120,080,000 105,000,000 80,000,000 75,000,000 . ON THE WESTERN FRONT The most gratifying thing about the loan- was the actualnumber of subscribers or those in names subscriptionsappeared and to whom the securities would -be allotted. Ap-proximately 9,400,000 persons was the figure given and wasnot much below one-tenth of the entire population of thecoun
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . 000,000 300,000,000 300,000,000 250,000,000 210,000,000 120,000,000 120,000,000 120,080,000 105,000,000 80,000,000 75,000,000 . ON THE WESTERN FRONT The most gratifying thing about the loan- was the actualnumber of subscribers or those in names subscriptionsappeared and to whom the securities would -be allotted. Ap-proximately 9,400,000 persons was the figure given and wasnot much below one-tenth of the entire population of thecountry, men, women -and children; and 99 per cent, ofthese subscribed in amounts ranging from $50 to $50,000,making an .aggregate of $2,488,469,350. This the Secretaryof the Treasury interpreted as significant -of the wide-spread interest of the people in the purposes of the war, andof their determined support of the* Government in allmeasures required for its vigorous prosecution. * Principal Sources : Tlie ,Su>i, Tne Times, The Tribune, Xe-w Yorlt; Asso-ciated Press ilisiiatcbes, The Wall Htreet Jourtxfl (New York), The Times(London).. .V \TTO\ ARJIY RECRUIT) M; STATU IX Here the purpose wns to Induce dwellers in .New Yorli to migrateinto the country and become cultivators of the soil 130 VI THE AREIVAL OF ADMIRAL SIMS AND GENERALPERSHING IN LONDON AND PARIS May 7, 1917—July 7, 1917 COINCIDENT with the comings of the Entente Commis-sioners, or following soon after their arrival home, im-portant work had been done in Washington in preparing theUnited States for actual fighting. On May 4, the day onwhich Mr. Balfour addrest the House of Representatives, withPresident Wilson seated in the gallery, Admiral Sims, witha flotilla of American destroyers arrived in British waters,and began at once to participate in war on German sub-marines. Five weeks later, on June 8, General Pershing,who had been placed in command of the American forcessent to Europe, arrived in England, an
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