Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1915 — ALLIES CALL FOR WAR LOAN FUNDS [ARTICLE]

ALLIES CALL FOR WAR LOAN FUNDS

Banks Requested to Remit 15 Per Cent of Proceeds to New York Bank By November 15th. Aew York, Oct. 28.—The first call for funds available from the AngloFrench $500,000,000 credit loan was made today by Basil B. Blackett, secretary of the Anglo-French commission, and Octave Homberg, one of the French members who remained in this country to adjust matters in connection with the loan. Lord Reading, chairman of the commission, and the two other British members, sailed October 16 and have reached Great Britain. The call requests banks throughout the country where the funds have been deposited to remit by November 15, fifteen per cent of the proceeds to the National City bank here, the institution designated as the depository of the proceeds as called for. Letters to this effect went out today, bearing the signatures of Messrs. Blackett and Homberg, and others will go forward to other banks tomorrow and Saturday.