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Show GREAT WAR DEBT I FACINGOERMANS Hour of Reckoning Coming 1 124,000,000,000 Marks Already Al-ready to Be Met. NEW YORK April IS - Germany I Will have to observo the greatest oeon-1 oeon-1 omy for her national war debt is now ; 124.000.000,000 marks and the hour of j reckoning will come when there will be wailing and gnashing of teeih oni the part of the taxpayer. This re-! i flection was made in the reichstac; on ! March 1 by Count Arthur von Posa-dowsky Posa-dowsky - Wohner. former i -- chancel -lor, according to the Cologne Gazette, a copy of which has been received here. The count, who is not a member of any political party, said that wuen he was at the head of the imperial treasury treas-ury department the national debt was I then 1.750.000,000 marks and he had ; considered that amount as terribly ; high. no |