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Show tricks known to the stock gamblers, who, however, have an unusually fertile field of fact and fiction to work in. SPECULATORS AT WORK. The sudden slump and quick recovery of the English pound suggests that in addition to the influence of war conditions con-ditions there has been the influence of a powerful ring of speculators. It looks very much as if this ring had taken advantage of the uncertain situation situ-ation to make a drive against British credit so as to possess themselves of English notes at a low figure. The speedy recovery of the pound sterling cannot be wholly accounted for by the deposit of English gold and se- I curities in New York. The information that these deposits were to be made was given to the public long in advance, ad-vance, and the effect must alreadv have been discounted when the pound began to decline heavily. On Thursday the mere talk of a big loan was sufficient suffi-cient to send the pound soaring again, although there was nothing tangible to the report. The money market, it would seem, is being manipulated by means of all the |