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Show LOSS OF POLAND IS BLOW TO FINANCES Taxes Derived From That Country For merly Formed Great Support to Russian Treasury Spec al Cab e to Tl e Tr bune WARSVW Dec 11 The loss of Poland Po-land s the greatest financ al blow suf fered by R ss a s nee the beginning of the war In 191" the populat on of th s large and ndustr ally strong prov nee pa d in taxes $164 000 000 As the ex penses of the provinc al adm n strat on only amounted to $11' 000 000 a sur plus of $52 000 000 went to the imper al treas ry In the last two years the surplus was still larger as numerous new taxes were introduced and others ncreased Accord ng to unofficial stat at cs, the government of the czar in 1913 drew $75 000,000 out of the now lost prov nee In the f rst six months of 1914 the taxes collected were heav er than ever before but no f gures are available for th f seal year 1914-15 The conquest of Poland by the cen tral powers has robbed the Russ an treasury of annual revenues amounting to nearly $80 000,000 and th s large amo nt w 11 now have to be ra sed by a furtl er increase of the taxes in the poorer and mo e th nly populated prov inces |