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Show Money Presses Go at Top Speed and Deficit Mounts Up V1EXNA, Mar. 12. The financial finan-cial plight of Austria Is indicated in tho supplementary budget brought in by tho minister of finance, fi-nance, estimating the deficit for the current fiscal year at 42,000,-000.000 42,000,-000.000 crowns. This is nearly double tho figure given by hla predecessor In the autumn, and even now does not take Into consideration certain factors such as new demands recently re-cently granted the federal civil servants and, that just made by tho provinces, that tho federal government shall Increase their appropriation threefold and bear one-half of the salaries of provincial pro-vincial civil servants, including school teachers. It is reported that the money presses are now turning out paper crowns at the rate of 3.000 000 a month for Austria alone, the government gov-ernment apparently having adopted adopt-ed this as the expedient way of meeting the never-ending do mands of Its own servants, the workmen and of all clusses of people peo-ple for Increased pay to enable them to meet tho equally never-ending never-ending increase In cost of living. "Tho Austrian crown no longer has any value outsldo of the coun-tr," coun-tr," said a member of tho government gov-ernment to th correspondent today, to-day, "and soon will havo nono within." As a matter of fact, money la the cheapest thing In the country. Xo one attaches any value val-ue to It and the result Is a general gen-eral effort to convert the currency cur-rency Into foreign values or something some-thing of intrinsic value. |