Show EUROPEAN NATIONS STRAIN EVERY RESOURCE TO MAINTAIN THEIR ARMIES ARIES TREASURED GOLD TURNED IN TO O RIBOT t People of France Respond to Appeals to Place Wealth at Nations Nation's Disposal SCHOOL CHILDREN JOIN Savings Accepted Along With Collections of Numismatists or of Peasants DAnIs Au Aug 2 There a-There There have been PARIS some ome remarkable scenes at itt the Bank Bank anc of France Franco since Alexandre Felix lUbot the French minister of af finance Issued his call tor for the mobilisation atlon of i gold We re are spending two billion franca a month ho he sAid Its It a frightful fright fright- ht- ht ful ZUI sum and weve we've got gat to keep It up another winter winter bring bring on an your aur gold The Tue call c lI spread rapidly and the re- re has been prompt Monsieur RIbot Is only one ane month manth older than Monsieur Colin CoHn of at the the Rue Hue I des dea Tours Tour who wha was 73 this spring II I Madame Colin CoHn so sa wroth wrote on an the slip sup she I delivered In the Bank BanI of ar France with I francs of af gold goM to be he exchanged for tor I 1 I national defenso defense bonds bond I had saved ed It to make a present to ta Monsieur Colin Cohn on our golden olden wedding day clay she added I but we wo decided that we e could both get more pleasure and satisfaction out of ot that thal gold b by turning turning- It over DS as as a n. sort of ot homage to ta Monsieur RIbot Children Contribute Contribute- I of ot school children will as- as the thc name of ot the venerable mm- mm ister with their first visit to that mysterious mys mS and awe Inspiring Institution always so Impressively guarded by br the handsomely uniformed republican guards Their teachers lift them up to the tho tellers teller's window where gold old Is e ex exchanged changed and the they are arc generally disappointed disappointed disappointed pointed not to see the patriarchal head of af Monsieur H RIbot somewhere behind the counter One woman shoved a pile of coins amounting to ta 0 30 francs through the tellers teller's window at tho the Bank of France with the concise explanation For Monsieur RIbot She turned to go ga awa away without her bank bills and had to be that Monsieur RIbot was not seeking gold without giving the thc equivalent In e exchange change t I l Collection A man who had spent years ears collectIng collecting collect- collect Ing hundred-franc hundred gold old pieces and had hadt t Rotten gotten together a hundred of at consecutive consecutive tive dates Including the rarest effigies effigies effigies effi effi- gies brought It to ta the bank Worth Warth collection t five tI times s su much u h he as a a. e s as A went ent away Ciway with in bank notes Another numismatist sacrificed a n. unique collection of ot OO t- t double louls louis franc franc forty pieces fr r Another man In the tho familiar peasI peas peas- ants ant's blue frock came in IlL took his place I hesitatingly hesitating In the line and fidgeted continually while waiting He left the theline theline theline line once and got to tho the door hesitated turned back and anti took his place again at the foot foat When hen hl his turn finally came ame he cast a fond glance at the sock he pulled out aut of o a vest est pocket then poured francs In iii gold staId upon the i counter Count by h Weight Tho The counting of af the millions of ot r. r S pieces received would tako too lon long it would also be too taa complicated since with the Jhc hc luls luis napoleons and republics republics re pu publics thero there aro arl sovereigns eagles and double eagles lit in In fact pieces of ot nearly every nation that coins gold old Consequently every very deposit Is valued b by weight Sometimes wel weight ht is the only possible means of ot valuation as III In the case of the Cure of ar who wha ho deposited at the branch of tho Bank JanIe of or France at sur Chalons I In a n shapeless mass ho he had recovered from flom the ashes of tho presbytery ter after the retreat of the G Germans Coins of ot tho the total value of ot francs had been een melted melt melt- ed el d and run together by the heat beat of or orthe the conflagration The million and a half holt francs trane received at Chalons rI 1 n 1 nf f 1 I a R yo lit v.- v. u of ot the tho republic that ha had been nearl nearly pierced b by a German bullet rom Prom Conquered T Territory A newspaper announcing the gold ex exchange exchange ex- ex change ch movement ma was smuggled into Inta a hamlet on an the battle front that has been taken and reta retaken en several times and now hal happens to tie Ie occupied by the Germans The Tho peasants made a purse of all their gold old and drew lots lats to choose the one ona who would have hn the tho honor of or carrying it through the lines linen to Monsieur Monsieur Mon Ion Ion- RIbot All AlI I 1 ask said th tho th simple-minded simple Peasant who wha accomplished this mission mis mis- don sion Is that you au just Juat give me a paper paler that I can cnn take back to ta show shaw tho the golds gold's turned over aver take It back bacic with us when wo we march In said ald the tho colonel giving lnE him hima a re receipt In tho the name n of tho the village You could never get gel through there twice alive None of at the principal banks will de deliver deliver deller de- de liver ll gold to anyone anone now but traffic In It is Iii still going on under cay cover or A Aman Aman man who wanted Dutch gold Hold to ta the of ot about francs got It from froma troma a mo money e exchanger by br paying a a. premium premium pre pre- of af twenty six francs |