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Show She Had It Buried. In lllustral ion of the extent to wh'h gold and silver are being hoarded In China, the far eastern division of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce com-merce gives currency to an Incident reported of an old uoniiiu paying for her purchase of a cotton mill with .r,on.(Mo worth of gold bars, which she had dug out of Its biding place. It Is estimated that, due to the disturbed political conditions and lack of adequate ade-quate banking facilities throughout China, at least a billion dollars' worth of silver is similarly hoarded, which may partially account for the present exchange silllation. |