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Show FRENCH PEOPLE I DIG UP GOLD liijIJJ I Millions of Francs Flow Into the Treasury of the j Nation. y IH ', pro Paris, Aug. 26.-10:30 a m, Gold YVt has begun to flow Into the Bank of .!U France at the rate of 30,000,000 francs ik! a week. Two and a half milllon'francs f-fl have been received thus far from the ft'llB reconquered part of Alsace. IwlK The new 25-franc and five-franc ftlhM bonds put on sale Monday have given Ujjh ' a fresh impetus to the movement jjtl among the working classes for Invest- ' ment in war loans and started a flood IllS of touching letters from children who I'lili wished to empty their savings' banks jlllli into the public treasury. mll Deposit exchanges and bond pur- Hlfil chasers havo enabled the bank of illli Franco to send 200,000,000 francs in fflP gold to England this week without a (ftfjl fraction of tho market reaction that SJlril ordinarily would have resulted. This lull remittance of gold is said to be "for iffitil the anticipated needs of the two gov- alliili ernments." The principal purposcnp- ffllll pears to be maintenance of r i equili- DlIlS brium of the rates of exchange of mtm Paris in London which again show an mMm upward tendency. Wvil |