GERMAN BUDGET.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12101, 9 July 1920, Page 5

GERMAN BUDGET.

' *big vote for army. NO-CONFIDENCE REJECTED, United Press Association,— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, July 6. The Reichstag has sanctioned an expenditure of 850 million marks for the maintenance of an army one hundred thousand strong. The total expenditure on the army’s upkeep is millions. It was further announced that 195 million marks had been earmarked for the construction of merchant shipping and shipping yards, which latter will receive building subsidies according to progress of construction. The Reichstag rejected by 313 to 64 a vote of no-confidence moved by the Independent Socialists, and, adopted by 253 to 62 a motion approving of the Chancellor’s declaration of policy. Fifty-four members did not vote on the latter motion.