INTER-PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE
OPENED BY THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. April 23j 5.5 p.m.) v . " N Paris, April 22. M. Poincare, President of France, is. opening the Inter-Parliamentary Economic Conference in the _ Luxembourg Palace. The delegates include forty-two British Parliamentarians,, High Commissioners, and Agents-Gene-ral, fcrty-tliree Italian Deputies, fourteen Serbian, and ten Portuguese. GERMANY'S FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES (Rec. April 23, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, April 21. The "Lokal Anzeiger" publishes an interview with Hen- von Lentzo, the Prussian Financo Minister, who forecasts great financial difficulties not only in tho Empire but in cacli Federal State. Though tho constitution does not so provide, it will probably bo necessary for'.the Empire to levy direct taxes upon the States to cover the war expenditure. Herr von Loiitze adds: "This is no time to theorise or. engage in a constitutional discussion, hut the time to recogniso the true hard 'facts.' ' PERSISTENT RUMOURS IN FINANCIAL CIRCLES IN ' HOLLAND London, 'April 21. There are persistent rumours in nuancial oircles-in Holland that th© Außtrkn Government, in conwqmm of tjio grava eitußtiou, is seriously. thinking of abandoning its iu tiis war,
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2753, 24 April 1916, Page 5
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