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Show DOLLAR'S VALUE LESS AS FRANCE PROSPERS PARIS, May 14. The prospects of a bumper c'rop this year, tho Improved condition of the Trench treasury, due to the growing excess of tax receipts over the estimates, and the purchase of Frent-h mining and other industrial shares by American and British in vestors are givon in the best informed' circles as tho principal reasons for the sharp decline in the valuo of tho dollar dol-lar from 17 to 15 francs. Another influential element was tho covering by bourso operators, who had been speculating against tho franc and found it advlsablo no longer to take risks against growing confidence in a French financial recovery. Tho best judges say they do not ox-pect ox-pect a further radical change In the relative values of the franc and thi 00 |