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Show Mil FLEET SEIiJpEO Erzberger Also Outlines Other Items for Reconstruction. Re-construction. BERLIN, Aug. 13. (By the Associated Press.) "We must proceed Immediately to create a mercantile fleet and help Germans Ger-mans abroad with state advances," said Mathias Erzberger, minister of finance of the German government, speaking before the national assembly at Weimar yesterday. yester-day. He promised the assembly that a bill carrying out these projects would be presented in a few weeks. Herr Erzberger added that the loan situation sit-uation must be given consideration, declaring de-claring that the German nation must raise 25,000,000,000 marks yearly in taxes in order to regain a healthy condition. "The storm will come because it must come," he added. "I am constntly at work on the regular budget which will be submitted on October 1. The liquidation of our war undertakings must be completed com-pleted as soon as possible. "A big property levy is the first step on the path of imperial financial reform. This will afford a possibility of reducing the floating debt and abolishing the vicious paper regime." Herr Erzberger declared that foodstuffs food-stuffs cannot remain unburdened. Referring Re-ferring to the use of German labor in the reconstruction of northern France! he said this was the only possible means of reparation. |