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PRO-GERMANS FIGHT BANKERS Certain Hungarian and German depositors have withdrawn their deposits from the First-Bridgeport National Bank, the Connecticut National Bank and the Bridgeport Trust Company because they have been advised that these banks have used the depositors' money to participate in the $500,000,000 AngloFrench war loan. Although these three banks are the heaviest losers, other banks are also said to be affected while banks that did not participate in the loan are gaining new depositors from the Hungarians and Germans in Bridgeport. The depositors who have already withdrawn their funds are canvassing in the West End among other depositors inducing them to withdraw their deposits also. BIG SOCIETIES ACT The two largest Hungarian sick benefit societies, having a membership of more than 16,000, have already withdrawn more than $20.000 of their funds. A movement is on foot among the Hungarians of the West End to buy in on the Hungarian war loan bonds, just placed on the market through the Trans-Atlantic Trust Company of New York, while well-to-do Germans in Bridgeport are participating in the last German war loan. Persons of Hungarian and German nationality have already bought these foreign securities, the interest on which is more than six per cent. while the war bonds of the Allies bear only about five and one-half per cent. interest.