Show WEIGHT COUNTS it n NOTES government Faces New I Year Tear With Big Deficit II IIII II VIENNA Jan 16 Indications are that tha t the h beginning of ot the new year will find lh government facing facing- a deficit of crowns It had reached at the end of ot October The largest single Item of ot the deficit Is isor or or subsidized foods foodstuffs bought outside hEl he country this alone amounting to toI I crowns The railways have hae havel been l een run at a loss of ot ii I Another serious item of ot loss has been foreign en-foreign exchange the government be be- be ting forced to sell crowns for foreign val val- ties ues for tor payments pa-ments of flour fats and various varl- varl Ous other commodities under the food subsidy plan During the past few tew months the fall of ot the crown against standard values has been unchecked and Its purchasing value haS about reached the vanishing point The h largest r note In circulation la In Aus Austria ir rg oh f tria has a been crowns r but r the e tre- tre volume of circulation has made even ven that denomination Insufficient and tin an n Issue of ot crown cro notes Is In preparation Where 1000 and lesser notes are handled han han- lIed In quantities they are no longer counted but weighed A table of weights has bas been een worked out and found to be accurate enough for all aU ordinary purposes purposes pur pur- poses Joses when Jewelers' Jewelers scales are used In the mind o of the average Austrian there t-bere seems to linger some fatuous be beher belIet be- be her lief that someday and somehow the crown irown will recover In value and he gambles gambles gam gam- bles on that hope even In such business deals Meanwhile the presses are turnIng turn- turn Ing- Ing out nearly a a. day tn last week In October the Issue amounting and he sees his maximum note of circulation advance from to crown denomination and even I that worth but little more than than- the tenner tenner ten ten- ner was si six silt months ago |