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Show PRUSSIAN FINANCES IN SORRY CONDITION Heavy Deficit in Treasury for Fast - Two Years, and Outlook Not Bright. BERLIN, Jan." 13. The Prussian Diet was reopened today. The Chancellor, Count Von Beulow, read the speech ' from the throne. No mention was made of foreign matters nor of the canal bill. The speech took a gloomy view of the finances of Prussia. It said that the accounts ac-counts for 1901 closed with a deficit of $9,375,000, and added that it was not anticipated an-ticipated that the accounts for 1903 would be appreciably more satisfactory. As for 1903, a demand would have to be made on public credit for a considerable loan In order to establish equilibrium between the revenue and expenditures. |