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Show Investment of French Capital. A fow months ago tho minister of foreign affairs of Franco sent n letter to French consuls In tho dlffcrpnt quarters of tho world.lnstructlng them to report on tho amount of monoy Invested In-vested by Frenchmen In their various consular districts. Franco has always had the roputatlon of boing an Investing Invest-ing country, a dlvldend-rocelvlng country, coun-try, a nation of almost Inoxhaustlblo resources. Thp result of tho consular consu-lar Investigations fully suuUlns this roputatlon. showing that tho foreign investments of France aggregate In rcund. number nearly 16,000,000,000. |