GERMAN IMPERIAL FINANCE
A COMPROMISE ARRANGED. FAVORABLE TO AGRARIANS AND PROTECTIONISTS. United Press Association— Copykigih (Received July 9, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. A compromise has been arranged in connection with German Imperial finance. It indicates that the agrarians and protectionists’ have a tight grip on the machinery of taxation. Out of 25 millions sterling, sixteen millions are to be derived from beer, spirits, tobaco, matches', lighting apparatus, '.wine, and eoffee, and four million from railway tickets, the maintenance of the sugar , tax, and the increase of the matricular contributions to 80 plennige per head of the population unconditionally, and five per cent, on various imports, stocks, • shares, and financial transactions. - [A pfennig is the oil*.hundredth part of a mark, which is worth in English money.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2550, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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126GERMAN IMPERIAL FINANCE Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2550, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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