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Show i REICHSTAG OPEN ! WITH VICTORIES ' AS THE KEYNOTE President Declares That Military Triumphs Show Teutons Invincible on U the Battlefield if II Bl RLI Ivo 10 a 1 o lo Do 11 1 Tho open njj of tie re hst ig to 1 jvy wa n arked bj an a 1 Iress o ol o k'1 fr the president Dr I aenpf vh U 3 xhe ooraphn entel Cern a oa th 1 hl f atisfactorj n 1 tary situat o the west and east a d tl e sue o sf 1 co lu 8 on of the Serb an cai pa gn a I a sj.eech by the secretary or tie imperial treasury Dr Karl llelffench n ntro Kd wng a bill arraugintr for the pre im nar es for the taiat on of war profits . Dr Helffer el rgel the speody ad p rt tion of the bill "o that no ar profits colli escape taxation and prom sed an actual n eabure'on the taxat on of var profits for the next tting of the rei ns tag in March He int n ated that t ould propose a graduated scale of ta a t on ba el on the amount of the ar prof ts and also ould inci de a ta on incomes which had increased 1 r ng tl c ar but he gave no indicat on of he extent of the prospect e ta at on Ihe secretary sad that the go e n nent t elf has as yet rea he I o co 1 sion on the taxation rate and t wo H obviously ie infar to mke t onf scatory or regard the proie t a Nson e wl h t6 do as a p n shr ent for dar n" to make, prof ts dur i Hp wa . The pr marjsobject of the n ea re was to ra se revenue toward co er n o I lo al expenditures of the war anl tor ) th p rposajk considerable percentage ' ,, of w ar profits n ust and should pass nto the go ernment s coffers The bill as referred to a comra ttee Presidents Address The AfMent s open ng remarks to the ho euKhich as on previo a ocsr s ons sh t5. a large proport on of membersMn army gray ere heard lth enthusiasm, He said Whllalin he west the tnam) s at emppto break through undertaken w th stron" torces fal ed when con fronted w th the contempt of death of our troops and their commanders while in the east the German arid i stro Hungarian arm es hold in an ' on grip what they have won In battles which were bold y p anned and heroically carried out wh e on he Isonaza the ItaJ ans by force of arms are attempting to conquer the ea t part of what before the war they could have got from Austria with out striking, a blow in the Balkans feats of arms have been aceom h. p ished and e ents ha e occurred wh ch, both from a military and diplo ! matic pont of iew have been car r ed through with splendid and un surpassed certainty and which have enabled us n comb nation with our a es and with the Bulgarian arm , o aven e the murder of Saraje o and i o bring to an end" as we hops' for I I al t me Serbian ntr "Ties which ha e proved to be so jiilsch e ous to Ei rope. x In close un on of arms with the brave arm es of the king or Bui a la and the Bu ganan peoole we have crowned our victory We we ' ome this from the bottom -of our J earts The Serb an armv has been umphantlv defeated The Turk sh 5 a m has 1 ved up to Its old reputa on and has brought about the fa lure of he Dardane es enterprise Sees England Worried Proud En lafid s roub ed about the key to her supremacy All o enem es have recogn zed that we are n inclb e on the ba t ef eld so the more eager y do they c ng to their hope to de troy us econom cal y to conquer us by hunger As they a ow hemse ves to be dece ved regard ng our f nanc al strength wh ch has been proved by the aston shlng resu ts of our war loans o they have a so been dece ved by their es imate of our eco nom c st efagth We ha e corn for bread Potatoes he most impor ant food o t e peop e are abundant If n other th ngs the e mav be a scare ty as cannot be d s puted yet the hardships thus caused o a major ty of the poorest popu a t on wl I b surmounted by the or an zatlon of the provis on market We therefore f nanc al y and eco nomica y have every eason to con empate the future w th fi m deter m nation and unshaken conf dence Provide New Revenues T e re chstag then adopted the f na ead ng of the b 1 mod fying certa n fea res of mart al law gvng the opt on of a f ne instead of imp isonment for m nor offenses There was no debate a houDh the So a st member Herr Schne demann an v. nounced hat the Soc a sts m 0ht take up w e quePt on of certa n abuses late n the sess on Dr Helffrieeh then introduced a b requ r ng companies -and corpo at ons o se as de 50 pe cent of the r extra prof s L du n the war ears to cover the r L " ma e taxat on R The e was no pub Ic referen e to e f 1 bje t of peace erms du ng the day s 1 1 ess on jl J Socialists Denounce Chief !l W4 LOVDON No 10 4 1 p m Re o u Le ons n oppos to to the att ude of D at Ka I ebkne h Soc a ade n he rel hs ac t e passed a s membe s ac ord ng o i spat h f om Be n oda fo warded by Reu ers o espond n at Rot e d m So a s membe s of e e s ag sa s he d spate passed a e o ut on ut e y epud a ng the con nua p ovo a o bv D ebkne subs ut n q e ons o e e stae on a y o pa ns ha e mse f e ped da p |