UNITED STATES.
MUNITION MAKERS' RELIEF. Washington, August 11. The Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee, in order to less■n the present burden on munitionmakers, advocate fixing a flat rate of len per cent, net profit and abolish the export tax, to be retrospective since the beginning of 1916 and inoperative one year after the close of the war. It is estimated that the revenue will be nintf million pounds a year. Despite the decline in the wneat yield, cabled on "August 10, the Government does not expect a serious shortage ill the United States though the exports wili be small.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1916, Page 5
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