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Show BRITISH BAMS I AMALGAMATING 1 LONDON, Dec. 15. The latest in IB the series of amalgamations of promi- tt nent British banks Is the fusion of the National Provincial Bank of England and the Union of London and Smith's Bank. Financial editors of the morn- B' Ing newspapers describe tho amalga-mation amalga-mation as a development of excep- BT tional importance and the greatest event of Its kind tn the historv of wm banking In Great Britain, both in point f of size and consequence. L JS' The bank's new name will be the National Provincial and Union bank 3r and it will have total deposits of about' " 170,000,000. ij |