UGLY SUGGESTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 4, 6 January 1916, Page 2

UGLY SUGGESTION.

Great alarm is being felt at the Paris Mint on lug to the mysterious disappearance from circulation of the greater part of its copper money ontProm a total of something like four million pounds sterling wortn of ren and five centime- pieces, the shortage of these is such that it is difficult to secure small change. All kinds of rumours are afloat to account for this Rt.T3.nvo State of things, the most plausible bring that Germany’s "Black Hand” hos been once more

at work. ’ Tho thought that German-paid agents are collecting France’s copper in order that it may be turned against V-r r.-ldiers in the shine of shot and shell." 'carries with it a distinctly unpleasant flavour. Strong measures ■irp being taken to put a stop to the TaWov ‘so that ore long Parisians ! n{iv "b ? relieved of the irritatin'* "Berry I have no change,” when handing a penny for an article valued at half that amount. Thus taa French twenty-five centimes nicH-- • has become automatically unnegonable.