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Show 'GASSED' MONEY IS REFUSED IN PARIS Woman Storekeeper Declines to Receive Re-ceive Coin Which Had Been Turned Black. PARIS, Dec. 21. Gassed money has maun its way to Paris to be spent since the small townspeople refuse to take it in trade. A Young Men's Christian association asso-ciation secretary in a village protested when an aged woman storekeeper refused the jet black coins ho offered, briefly explaining ex-plaining "No good." "But," insisted tbe Red Triangle man, "those coins arc perfectly good. They were new and shiny when I put them In my pocket. 1 have been through a gas attack and the fumes have turned them black, fc'ee " And be took out his knife and scraped until the bright metal was revealed. "Non," replied mntlamc, still unconvinced. uncon-vinced. "Co n'est pas bnn." And she went on to explain that after a coin has been passed she did not want to have anything to do with it. Finally the man who had made the purchases pur-chases was obliged to borrow enough from a follow-worliLT to pay for what ho had bought. "It is bad enough 1o go through the danger and discomfort of a gas attack without having perfectly good money ruined," mused the Y. M. C. A. man. "This matter ouht to be held against the But lies when the final settlement comes. Itis the worst Of all their crimes." |