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Show REVENUES CUT BY PROHIBITION Ixmdon, Dec 8, 11 p. m A Petro-grad Petro-grad dispatch to Reuters Telegram company says: "The minister of finance, in a mem orandum accompanying the budget, states that through the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors, in accordance ac-cordance with the will of the emperor, who is anxious to see his people healthy and sober, the country has been deprived of one of its most important im-portant sources of revenue, hut he Is convinced that however much this may be felt by the treasury, the creative cre-ative power of the sober Russian people applied to the enormous natural nat-ural riches of the country will enable en-able future budgets of the empire to be based on new principles "The revenue, which In the first two months of the war showed a considerable con-siderable decrease, has since displayed display-ed a permanent upward tendency, which gave him reason to hope that the havoc In the country's economic life due to the war would not be as grave as had been feared.' "To secure funds necessary to conduct con-duct the war, the minister declared, the government would have recourse to further credit operations, an in-ciease in-ciease In the existing taxes and the creation of fresh imports Ho gave assurance in conclusion that loans, both internal and external would present pre-sent no difficulties." |