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...Franc. The franc touched a new "low for all time" last week: 30 francs to the dollar: 3.27¾ cents to the franc...
...Belgian Franc. The Belgian franc simultaneously declined to 29 francs to the dollar: 3.45 cents to the franc...
...Basil Zaharoff, famed "mystery munitions Croesus of Europe" (TIME, March 8, MONACO), contributed 1,000,000 francs to a "Save the Franc Fund," now being administered by Marshal Joffre. Other contributors: City of Lyons, 250,000; the Paris Herald (U. S. expatriates' daily), 100,000 francs and 222,000 more from its readers...
Though the total collected last week exceeded one billion francs, the franc slumped to a new low for all time, 30.32 francs to the dollar...
...What new low level did the franc attain...