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Show I EIGHTY BILLIONS ! ARE TO BE RAISED WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Taxos designed de-signed to raise about eighty billion marks are planned by the council of the people's delegates, said an official report received today from Berne, quoting a Berlin dispatch from the Sud Deutsche Zeituug. The dispatch said the now taxes would bo levied on war proms and that a decree do-I do-I terminative or tho tax would bo published pub-lished within a fortnight. In connection with the dispatch the Sud Deutsche Zeilung observes: I "However legitimate may appear tho" principle of the tax, ono can not but consider with some anxiety tho hurry with which the government is acting. The allied powers will surely augment their demands when they are aware of the extent of our financial means and will lay hold of the sum in question. The result will be a diminution of our national wealth, bring no profit to the state and an increase in the taxes which will fall on German citizens." |