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Show UUSTRIIT1I5 ' FROM ORG! OF ; : EXTR1GM1CE Forty-fix Thousand Officials Offi-cials Have Been Dismissed Dis-missed and 50,000 More Are Due to Feel the Ax IYA.H DKCKIR. Special f'ahl to the New York Kven in World and ihe Chfcage OaJljr Ktwt CopyHsM, lfttl iNtw TArk Kvenln I World , I'ress rubliahing .'. OKNKVA, Kept. J. Austria baa turned from her ory of re kles ea-travaprartca ea-travaprartca to a rlod of strictest h-onomv. In l:o, when tha writer entered Austria by way of Innahrurk, he found Deputy Adler exit epeechmak-In epeechmak-In In ft private oar at the govern -svent'a expenee. Thoea rre the days whn the sorlaliets ra rap-l1)y rap-l1)y exhausting Austria's resources. Decently, when the writer again entered en-tered Austria by way of Innsbruck, he esw paying passengers hln transf erred from partly filled ' ' rotichrs end parked Into cara thl i aiready were crowded. , AUSTRIA MUST SAVK. 1 "Austria must save coal-It costs a million crowns a ton," railroad officials of-ficials explained. The story of how Austria has been . , saved from ruin by the simple process pro-cess of reducing expenditures and 1 Increasing revenues, with the aid of a loan to pay off her deficits, wss i ' related to the second commit lea of I ' 1 the )eaue of nations by the hnrd-! hnrd-! ; fteted lulrh burgermeister Zim-j Zim-j ' mermann, whom jueen Wllhel-. Wllhel-. mina loaned to Auslrla aa flnan-J flnan-J 1 cial exiert. , I The moat Important feature of the change, ha Mid, waa the fact that confidence had been restored to I Austria, and that tha government had established credit by protocols proclaiming tha security off tha i frontiers, guaranteeing loans 'and ! ( promising reforms. BUDGET R I STORED. A twenty-ysar moratorium made restoration of the budget poaaitiia. Austria's practliahle burden waa placed at &0000,0to gold crowns early, a goal to be reached pro- I gresslvely. A bank of issue was ! , formed, partly by Austrian capital, inflation was stupped. Customs and ' tnhacco tar receipt were Increaaod. Iireit taxation receipts are seven to en times grester than they were In Prptaiiiber, 192. There was so much governmental waats, Zimmermann declared, that sharp reduction of expenditures was a aimpie matter. Many grants were suppressed, 4,G0e superfluous gov-. gov-. eminent employs wera released, eleven ministries were reduced to eeven and plana for the dismissal of . another lO.uuf employe ditring the coming year were drafted. British and Hwlss railroad experts are working out plana to put tha Austrian railroads on their feet. Necessiiy fur new expenllturea have arisen.. however. In this connection, as tha roads and buildings have been neglected for ten year. |