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ARMS TRAFFIC.

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Au outline of the arrangement between Mr. Montagu Normun, who has departed for England, and Mr. Benjamin Strong, Governor

The Kowloon Magistracy ap of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York for the British return to peareil to have been transformed the gold standard, was given to the Morning Post's Washington into an arsenal yesterday after. earresp dent The American authorities were impressed with the↑

British financial policy and think that when the pound reaches parity noon, when various types of arms it will remain there, and it will then be safe for London again to be and ammunition were producéd The free guld market. In order 10 gun:d again-t re-sus as exhibits in a case in which a pensiun of The gold standard, the Reserve Bank has boatwoman was charged before offered, in case the unlikely necasion arises, to place Ameri- Mr. E. W. Hamilton with unlawful

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brands of ammunition.

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WEALTH OF THE U.S.A. IN 1922.

Washington, January 15. The Census Bureau estimates that the wealth of the United States on December 31, 1922, was $320,803,862,000, which represented an increase of 722 per cent, compared with 1912. The estimate is based upon the best data available, of all the propertien which the Bureau classifies, Including, real estate, railronde, machinery, tele-first day gave evidence to the phones, telegraph, public utilities, peresnal property, etc.-Reuter's American Service.

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