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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY A BIT OF FINANCIAL HISTORY.— The credit of the Inited States was so high and unquestionable that in 1900. two years after the war with Spain. 2 per cent lionds were offered at par and oversubscribed. This is a financial performance no other nation has ever equaled. Inited States 4 per cent bonds in 1888 sold as high as 130 and in 1901 brought 139 7-S in the open market. The United States has never defaulted in any of its obligations. Not one of its bondholders has ever lost a cent of principal or interest except those who have voluntarily taken losses by selling their bonds in a period of temporary price denression. One hundred cer.t-on the dollar, principal and interest, has the United States always paid. Back of the approximated X250. 000.000.000 of national resources stands the rugged honesty of America. Liberty Loan lionds are the safest security iu the world.— BUY A LIBERTY BOND TODAY. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, returned to America yesterday after a journey to Europe impelled bv his desire to confer with British, French and Italian military and political lenders regard ing Americas co-operation in the war against Germany, and bv his wish also to become intimately acquainted with the American troops under arms in France. A. J. Balfour. British foreign secretary, speaking at a luncheon to the American labor delegation in London Jlondav. pointed out the supreme need of United States troons to foil Germanys plan to shatter Ike British army before the American weight can lie brought into the scale. The Germans have canturod B.iilleul with three fre-h divisions which had not been in the battle raging then- for the last few days. The fall of Bailleul represents a gain of a mile on the part of the Germans. The Germans are paving a heavy price for what ever gains thev are making. Dispatches of yesterday tell of twentv-fivc trains loaded with wounded Kissing through Aix-la Chapt-lle every night. Federal agents have discovered powerful wireless plants in Chicago camouflaged as amateur outfits. *
