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Show FKENCH ECONOMISTS if . ARE MORE MOPEFUl ; PARIS, Jan. 31. (Mail). French economists studying how the nation may raise the revenue necessary t d cany its debt burden and meet cur- J rent expenses on the basis of a budget of 17,000,000,000 francs annually, l the end of this year, have arrived at an estimate of 40,000.000,000 francs as ; -tho net annual revenue of the French I peoplo in 1914. Economists, who were f ' frightened at the end of the first year . . -of the war by the growing war debt, appear now to consider the solution ot ; the problem as less difficult than they had dared to hope, though there is still an uncertain element in their cai- culations arising from the effect the i war will have had upon the producing capacity of tho country. i |