GERMAN WAR TAXES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 259, 25 March 1913, Page 5

GERMAN WAR TAXES.

OOYEIiX.MI\XT WANTS A CKEQI'E FOR FIFTY .MILLIOXS. Jsv (.able—l'ivss Av-ociation—Copyright. Hci-Jia, March ±>, Ihe call foi* trained volunteers and woman nurses is meeting with an enthusiastic response. Monarchical promotion movements urge tlie Reichstag to give the (iovernment a blank cheque for fifty millions by refraining from discussion of the" army increase.

■ The Vosswlie Zeitung expresses the hope that the Reichstag will not be influenced by this piomincinionto. The Cologne Cazotte states that it is intended to lrvv a tax of 12s per every £IOO to apply to all fortunes, instead of the graduated scale. THE LEAGUE'S PROGRAMME. Received 25. 1.5 a.m. Delhi. March 24. The president of the All-India League declared tliat if Sir Edward drey "remained the arbiter of foreign policy Russia would stfallow the Asiatic Moslem States detrimentally to the British Empire in the East. The League requested tlie revision of the civil service, and a comparative system to enalde it to recruit more freely from various sections of the King's subjects. Tt also advocated separation of tlie executive and judicial functions, urged British action •with regard to the Macedonian butcheries, expressed dissatisfaction at the sympathy with the Balkan Allies, and urged Britain to persuade Russia to evacuate northern Persia.