VODKA AND THRIFT
RUSSIAN SAVINGS QUADRUPLED. M. Kharitonoff, the Treasury Comptroller, speaking in the name of the Minister of Finance before the Budget Committee of the Duma recently, said tho cause of the present favourable economic conditions in Russia was no doubt the prohibition of tho sale of spirits.
As a proof of this lie quoted statistics of the national sayings, which in December, 1913, only amounted to £70,000, as compared with £2,910,000 in December, 1914. In the first half of January, 1913, 'the figures, were £30,000, as compared with £1,530,000 for the corresponding period this year. The total savings for 1913 amounted to £3,400,000, as against £8,400,000 in 1914. These remarkable figures constitute an ' overwhelming proof of tlio unshakable power of Russia.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 6
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123VODKA AND THRIFT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 6
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