PRUSSIAN DIET RE-OPENED.
BRIGHT HOPES FOR THE NEW YEAR. Received 9. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17. The Prussian Diet has re-opened. The President hoped the new year will bring peace. Our great leaders and glorious troops, and, no.t least, our brave submarines, will soon answer the exhorbitant and impertinent demands of the Entente.
BUDGET STATEMENT. HARD TIMES STILL 'AHEAD. Received 11.10. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 17. Dr Lcnz, Prussian Minister of Finance, in introducing the Budget, said the balance shown was only apparent. Isolation was increasingly hard on the country, and food difficulties were causing the greatest distress; but measures were taken to ensure that none starved. Hard months wore still ahead. Direct taxation yielded sixty million marks above the estimated increase of hundred millions The Budget estimates a large increase in [direct taxation. 090 million marks had been paid for indemnification for devastation in East Prussia.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 18 January 1917, Page 5
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