Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1919 — FRANCE SHORT FOUR BILLION [ARTICLE]

FRANCE SHORT FOUR BILLION

Deficit: in Budget Given Chamber by Finance Minister. • Paris, March 14. —Louis Klotz; minister of finance, began his eagerly awaited speech in the chamber of deputies on the financial situation by denying he bad said that France land become richer during the war. From the fiscal point of view there had been more resources; created, but it would be absurd to say that any country with departments in, such a condition as the invadfcd departments of France had become richer. The yearly budget. M. Klotz announced, would be three or four times greater than before the war, the deficit to meet being 21,750,000,000 francs ($4.350,000,900).