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Show I ARGENTINE GOLD : RELEASED HERE Action Expected to Encourage Trade of South American Nation With U. S. BUENOS AIRES. Aug. 26 For- elgn Minister S;i lal'-i rv anno., n ! t..-day t..-day that ha would wun releaur $2.1,-' 000,000 which l holil In the Inited states to the credit of the account of the Argentine embassy in Washington. Washing-ton. He added thni with the releifc of the remaining deposit, transactions baaed on them would bo entrusted exclusively to the Bank of the Nation under regulations which would rilml-nate rilml-nate arl.ltagc operations and Insure bona fld- 1 1 a nsictlons upon actual purchaser of commodities in the Inited tSatea. The decree releasing the gold Is expected on Saturday nnd Is presumed It will have ttlC effect of reducing the hea.vy discount on the Argentine pe-os pe-os In the United State. The Argentine government nowj holds $100,000,000 In gold In excess of the Hmount for circulation and .rnks. In addition, hold $67,000,000 Deputy I'ena told the chamber of deputies today to-day that the ban on exportation of actual metal mum should l Itf.-.l He asserted . however, that such exportation ex-portation ' aliould be controlled bj the Hank of the Nation, asserting the Tvujdness of exchange Is now In the hands .of skillful agents of foreign hanks, "who do not permit us to he our own economic masters." |