At a joint meeting of industrial associations recently held in Dusseldorf it was decided to send a representative to Berlin to protest against proposed new taxation on the ground that it would be "ao unbearable overstrain." This, of course, had special referenoy' to economic life after the war, but it shows which way the wind is blowing in industrial Germany. These particular industries, according to the newspaper reports, included an association of iron and steel manu-{acturera who might be supposed to have had some share in profits derive able from war trades. However that may be, they are protesting against further taxation. Moreover, in Austria-Hungary people are growing anxious to know what undisclosed military losses account for the raising of the age-limit from fifty-two to fifty-five, and they are quite unmoved by the official assurance that the new classes will be employed only outside the war zone. Add to these significant facts
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