Box after ponderous box of dull gold ingots was hauled up from the vaults of the Bank of England last week, rushed across the Channel to Paris, then lowered down, down into the vaults of the Bank of France, buried so deep that above them lies a subterranean lake.
The volume of this transfer reached last week and held a daily average of $1,000,000, climaxed a steady drain upon the life blood of London's famed "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" which has been going on for months.* To be sure the Old Lady has received transfusions of virgin gold from South...
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