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Show GOLD LOST TO THE WORLD Destruction of Precious Metal Practically Practi-cally Goes On Without Ceasing, Either. Day or Night. Every ship that goes to the bottom takes with : her a certain amount of gold. It may be only a few pounds' worth or as In the case of the famous fa-mous Lutlne a million may be lost in a minute. Every .fire that occurs means a destruction de-struction of gold, and there is never a minute, day or night, when scores of human habitations are not burnirg. London alone has 2,-100 fires yearly. Besides all this, there Is the matter of hoarding. In countries where banks are not found In every town, the people peo-ple who have gold hide or bury it: In many cases they die without . revealing reveal-ing the hiding place. In this way India alone swallows up more than 500,000 worth of gold , yearly, China more than this, while Africa is at present pres-ent absorbing gold in this way at a rate of more than a million pounds a year. The money is pair! as wages to Kaffir laborers at the mines, and by them carried away to their kraals, whence it never returns. |