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Show FINANCES OF GERMAN ! EMPIRE IMPROVE 1 AMSTERDAM March 81. (Mail) In a war loan prupai.iida speech at Munich, President Elavenstein of the , reichstag, declared that Germany's fi-InancJa fi-InancJa position was better than that of her enemies and thai the longer the war lasted the stronger became i the fatherland's financial power," according ac-cording to the Voflsiche Zeitung. "Whether we shall get a war indem-I indem-I nity is not y et certain," he added. "It 'will depend on the victory still to bo won Bankruptcy of tho German empire, em-pire, however, Is unthinkable so long j as the enemy does not succeed in smashing the fatherland, one thing is essential, namely, freedom of competition compe-tition for German products through the whole world. Then we shall be I able to bear war burdens better than England and France. But war bur-I bur-I dens will be heavy. Our future motttj must be. work twice ;s hard and save twice as much as before.'' |