Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-29
Total Sales of
 Bonds Unknown
AMOUNT IS STILL A MATTER OF 
 SPECULATION
FINAL REPORTS DELAYED
It 10 Believed That Sales Will Ap- proxIrnate $5,ooo, COG, ,ooo-Exaet Fig ures VIII Not be Known for Several Days.

Washington, Oct, 2a, Tho total amount subscribed to the second Lib
 erty loan, the treasury department an, nounced tonight, is still "a matter o1 speculation" Several days probably 1 will eiapse before thA full extent oi the nation's subscriptions is asoer- tained.
 The department was without figures tonight showing any change in the es- timated totals. other than in the New York district New Yoriz's maximum ef s1,600. .00o ,060, reported last night to have been exceeded. it was said to- night, might be increased by later re- turns to as much as s1,75O. .O00.O Pre- vious estimates had placed the total as approximately s1,650,0O0 000 or s10o.o0o,oo6 less than tenight's esti- mate,
 Bank Officials Resting. Reserve bank officials and local eom- mittees, working until after midnight last night all over the country, rested today, It was virtually the first
 breathing spell they had taken since the campaign began. Few districts even reported te the treasury and the their time in transmitting the finals
 They have till next Thursday to make the complete report, Returns received az the treasury today gave little indication as to the final result" the department anneune- cd tonight, ''On the face of returns 1t cannot be said whether ths gale ex- eeeded a5,ooo. .o00.o60. Gosviftien ia general, however. that 1t Pratatt+= ap- prexfmated the maximum total. Hanks Of course have made ,lo efforts te tab u1ate all their returns and may not de -so until the final day fer reporting, November 1. Obviously. great chang es may be made in tho total between now and Thursday.
 Every District Beyond Minimum.
 ffFX has gone well past it's minimum and that several will exceed their maxi mum sufficiently to earry the weaker districts tn the high maflk in the gen era1 total.
 "New York. Chicago, Glexe,and as.d San Trancisco were showing especially strong in the late returns, How far Ne.y York will SC over it's maximum Is a matter of conjecture. Some think that the excesa may reach $250 000, 900,
 Chicago district ehairmen have be- gun to feel that their total may reach the maximum of $7o0. 0.0oo,oo0. Every message today from Chicago showed
 Heads of other districts rose infre- duently from their avalanche of re- turns long enough to ask that final judgment not be passed upon them for a fow days until all gales have been thoroughly canvassed.
 Chicago and kaneas City.
 Ino CIllcbgO ana hdn5tH 0t1ty d19- trfcts sent the nearest eoAlp!ete to- ta1a yet received.
 "tEvery state in our district has exceeded It's minimum allotmcnt,' the Minneapolis district reported Many townships have sold bonds to every family. Large manufacturing estab- lishments have sold bonds to every empioye. Some of the former most rabid German Sympatluzers, including ministers, were now staunch support CTS of the government and for the last week have been saoliciting sales.' Final Reports Delayed
 "At last reports virtually every part of the San Francisco district had pass ed its minimum and many had gone beyond their maximum. Messages from the Dallas. Atlanta, St. Louis and Richmond districts toll of great dis plays of enthusiasm on the last day of the sale. but added that many reports on final totals were badly de1oyed
 Indians have subscribed s3.s66. .750, according to the latest reports by Cato Sells. commissioner of Indian affairs
 Figures now in show that the army has subscribed something over $s2,- o00.ooo About $50, 1000, 900 has been ai- loted tby soldiers, to the federal bank at New York General Pershfng ca bled that S5,7s4,60 has been subscrib- ed by the American expedftionary fore es in France"