HUGE AUSTRIAN WAR DEFICIT
mi • l ■ » i l r ,„(/■,» i. , . Zurich, August 31. I. he Austrian Budget for lill6-17 shows a, deficit of 3,344,000,000 crowns (nearly .£140,000,000) compared with -19,000,000 crowns (over Ji2,000,000) in 1915-lfi. Th'o two heaviest items of expenditure are 1,761,000,000 for interest on war loan's and 1,050,000,000 for the support of soldiers' families. Special and direct war expenditure) aro not included in the Budget. [The Austrian crown is nominally worth about lOd. in En-lish money.']
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3180, 3 September 1917, Page 5
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