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Show BOGUS MONEY IN CIRCULATION Argument Raised at Border Over Rebel Fiat Currency Test Case. El Paso, Texas. March 20 The continued con-tinued issuing of bogus Villa paper currency on this side of the line resulted re-sulted today In a public argument. Agents of the Chihuahua rebels accosted ac-costed an American in a hotel lobb,-here, lobb,-here, accusing him of having In hla possession 12.000 pesos in counterfeit rebel flat money They were told to mind their own business. The incident raised a questiou of wnether the possession or even th -t manufacture of the Mexican flat paper pa-per WM Illegal In the United States, t was said that large quantities of mo currency printed We had been circulated in Mexico Mexican offi ua pointed out that the Villa money nad a certain monetary value even In the Lnited States as an exchange oank Is doing business here The recent confiscation of Constitutlonal-st Constitutlonal-st paper by American authorities on 'ne ground that it was bogus was held up as a test case in the matter |