COUNTERFEIT NOTES.
RUSH ON COINAGE. MADRID, June 15. The Bank of Spain, discovering a, few counterfeit notes, refused to cash them. A rush on coinage followed. Since Saturday, 100,000 residents in Madrid demanded that notes be exchanged for cash, with the result that three and a half million sterling worth of paper money has already been exchanged, and only twelve false notes thus far found. General De Rivera denounces the bank’s folly of discrediting the paper currency instead of changing a few notes without profit.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 169, 16 June 1927, Page 7
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