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Show 80 BILLION MARKS' IN NEW HUN TAX1 I i WASHIN;TN, Deo. 27.- Taxes' ' designed to raise about eighty billion ' marks are planned by the council of the people'a delegates, said an official reMrt received todav from Heme tiot- 1 lug a Heriin disjatch fn-m the Sud j I etitsche iCeltun,. The dtspiitch said j that Ihe new taxes would be levied on war profits and that a decree deter-) ipinative of the tax would be published t within a fortnight. In connection with i the dispatch the Sud leulsche Zeitanj; ; observes: However legitimate may appear tne j principle of the tax one cannot but ! consider with soma nnxiety the hurry j . with which the government is acting The allied power will suielv augment ' I heir demands when thev are aware of; the extent of our financial mesna and : will lay hold of the sum in question 1 I The rctilt w 'It be a diminution of oUr i i national wcfcHb. bring no prof.t tit tne! 1 state and an Hicresse in the taxes! atucliwul f-iil on tier run. n cili&ens." J |