New Britain herald., 1915-09-15
THREATEN TO KILL
 ALLIED FINANCIERS Pro-German Influences Work
 Aganist Loan to Allies MAY EI0AT C0UNTER LOAN
MAY FLOAT COUNTER LOAN
Members of AnglO-French Financial Commission Re-dOuble Bodyguards to Prevent Violence-Keep to Strict Secrecy.

to Prevent Violence-Keep to Strict
 Secrecy.
 New York, Sept. 15.-The pro- German campaign against the f1ota- tion of a billion dollar credit loan in the United States to Great Britain and France appeared today to assume the proportions of countrywide demon stration, even, it is alleged, threaten ing the personal safety of the six members of the Anglo-French finan- Cial commission.
 Members of this commission, of which Lord Reading, Lord Chief Jus t;ce of England, is chairman, have doubled their bodyguards, it became kown today. They have been re- quested by the police of New York not to advance their plans for any day and in no instance appear on the streets without detectives guarding them.
 Threatening Letters Received.
 More than fifty threatening letters have been received by the commits sion The contents of these epistles run the scale from abuse to threats of death. Some of the most threatening of these letters have been turned over to the police for investigation, it is said, and New York city detectives are now reported to be engaged in seeking the writers.
 Largely upon advice of the police, the commissioners do not visit the financial section in body or even in couples. Each commissioner travels through the streets of New York un- accompanied by any other commis- sioner. At least on detective is at the heels of each commissioner on his trips about the city, and in some cases, it is said, there are several.
 Whether this active opposition is sporadic in it's nature or is organized is not known. Bankers and other callers at the headquarters of the commission have expressed the view, g1eaned from their talks with the commissioners, that Tn the opinion of the latter it is of an organized na- nature.
 Other opposition to the f1otation of the big loan has taken the form, ac- cording to word received by the cOm- mission today, of widespread threats by pro-German depositors that par ticipation by the banks in which they have their funds would be followed by withdrawals.
 In the case of savings banks the commission board, organized with drawals of funds approaching the magnitude of runs on the banks were contemplated.
 Countrywide Campaign.
 The Anglo-French financial com mission heard today that German agents alarmed st momentum gained in past few days by, movement to lend Great Britain and France a bill lion dollars to be spent for supplies here had instituted a country wide campaign against the fotatiOn of the proposed credit loan.
 According to information which came to the commissioners attention, the German attack on the proposed loan included not only the negative stand in refusing to participate, which the agitators hope will be taken by banks with large lists of German American depositors, but embraced heavy withdrawals from banks par ticipating in the loan, as an express l sion of the displeasure of pro- German depositors 1
 Similar Loan for Germany.
 Another method which was re- i
 
 opposing the Notation of the loan was l the proposal to float a similar loan l for Germany. The amount of the proposed German loan commis- l sion heard, was to be half a billion l dollars. It was designed, according to ] tEeir information, not to place that | sum at the disposal of the German l Empire here, for Germany unable to | import American products, could not 1 spend it, but purely as an embar- rassment to the Anglo French com mission. If half a billion dollars of American money were tied up in this loan, the proponents of the plan were understood to believe, it would make it extremely difficult-almost inn possible-for Great Britain and France to succeed in their quest for 9 billion dollars in these money mar ketS.
 Less Drastic Method.
 less drastic method of attack, it was reported to the commission, was the apparent intention of the pro- German element to induce by persua- sion in his veins to oppose the par ticipation of his bank in the Notation of the loan
 The movement, from what the com mission heard, had it's origin in the east and it's greatest activity in the l middle west, especially in the large cities where the pro-German element it numerically strong. Although not so manifest here in New York as elsewhere it was said, the plan is by no means inactive in this city. This was evidenced according to reliable reports, by flood of protests made by German sympathizers to some of the largest banks here, voicing in | terms so alike that their inspiration