RUSSIAN WAR BUDGET
A TREMENDOUS INCREASE. v : t ’ ’ (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, December 4. . (Received Dec. 4, at 10 p.m.) The Moscow correspondent of the Daily News states that at the opening of the Central Executive of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets in the Kremlin’s great gilt, throne room, the Finance Commissar, M. Bruchanof announced that the war budget was being increased by roughly £19,500,000. The total revenue for the financial year to September, 1929, is estimated at £750,000,000—an increase of £90,000,000.
The Daily News recalls that it was just a year ago that M. Litvinoffi proposed universal disarmament at Geneva. —United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20583, 5 December 1928, Page 10
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