RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
THE EXCITEMENT SUBSIDING. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Bjitkd Press association.! Vienna, March 16. Tlie Nene Freie Presse says that the Austro-Hungarian Embassy at St. Petersburg has been assured that authoritative quarters entirely dissociate themselves from the bellicose utterances of the Russian Press, and deny that these are justified. Prince Gagarin, in an interview with the Tageblatt, declares that the Russo-German and Russo-Austrian relations are excellent.
Correspondents agree that the antiRussian excitement in Austria-Hun-gary is subsiding, one writer remarking that this is possibly because they have found they have already gone far enough.
RUSSIAN REVENUE.
St. Petersburg, March 16
With a view of raising revenue to meet the impending incerase of peace effectiveness by 460,000 men, the Government is studying,a proposed State monopoly in oil wells and naphtha works. It is understood that all parties in the Duma, except the exSocialists, have agreed to the necessity for an army and navy commensurate with the population and territory.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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158RUSSIA AND GERMANY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 73, 17 March 1914, Page 5
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