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FRANCES GREAT BETTING REVENUE Race coarse bettiag in Fraace has never been heavier than since the war. This i- shew a by the tact thai 1. 2Qa. 787, 732 franca ot backers monej imssed tbroaga tin- pari mataeia daring MSA. Never iieforc has sack an eeorasen total beea realized. The usual deductions amount to 11 per cent, is follows: Two per reel for the poor. 1 per cent for rharltj organisations wqrkiag for the devastated redoes, l per eeed for the deveiopaseat of water woiks generallj am! l per cent foi those of the devastated rcghau in particelar, 1 per cent for the deretopmonl of agricultural instruLtlau, 1 per cent for bene breedhsg sad I per cent for the racket, societies themselves. Tlie Paris raciag societies received just under lv otHi IMHI flam-, that of DeaaviDe a little over one million .■•nd the other provincial societies collectivel] nearly :: .Vifi.ikMi franc*
