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Show ENGLAND IS uSfiffi MUCH LESS WIHSKY LONDON. April 1?. David Llovd-f.eorg". Llovd-f.eorg". chancellor of the exchequer, "reintroduced "re-introduced last year's budget in the bouse or commons today. He declared' Hint be realized that the present deficit of $131. 2J(. 000 would bo more than wiped out when all arrears had been collected and (bat there would bo an actual surplus sur-plus of $ii.soo,noo. If the budget lmd been passed na. usual last year, he said. Micro would have been a surplus of $21. 000.000. Tbe chancellor commented upon thi remarkable decrease of 32 per cent In the consumption of whisky, a decreaso that he utlrihulcd mainly to Hie extra duty Imposed. The loss In tho revenue from spirits as -compared with the estimated figure was 51LO0O.O00. . h |