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Show HHFS I RAILWAYS FOR i FORTY BILLIONS I BERLIN, April 25. (By The Asso- cialed Press). Forty billion marks an , K involved in the government's purchase of the federated states railways, which has been approved by the national as . sembly. The annual interest incui "V- jH red in the nation's huge investmen Is estimated at fourteen million marks (The government is not ovor-sanguini .with res.pect to the early returns fron the investment, in view of ihe dilapl dated condition of the railways, th I delayed output from repair shops anC I continued demands by the men foi wage Increases. "The peace treaty we have complob ed does not present a bewitchingh beautiful face ,but it possesses deslr auio qualities in political and econc-mic econc-mic directions," said Dr. Bell, minister of transport, in the national assembly 1 just before the vote was taken. He 1 described the transaction as one of the 1 most cigantlc ever effected by anv 1 parliament. J JM The minister added that more than H a million employes of the railways 1 would bo on the government payroll |