Amsterdam, Jan. 13.
In the Prussian Diet to-day Dr. Lenz, the Minister of Finance, asking for 4n authorization to issue Exchequer Bonds to the value of 2¥80,000,000, declared that it was false to say that Germany was unable to bear the burden of the war any longer. He admitted the scarcity of foodstuffs and the higher prices of milk, butter and fat, but the highest point had already been reached. jounced huge increases in individual' and company income taxes.
Jan. 14.
The Socialist Herr Simons, spoaking in the Reichstag, attributed the shortage of foodstuffs to wrong measures having been taken by the Gow ernment: He said that the diminution of the bread ration was a serious disappointment to the working classes and the increase in pote-to prices was a catastrophe.
The "Berliner Tageblatt" is dis appointed at the vagueness of the in the speech from the Throne which refers to electoral ro-form. It describes the whole speech as unsatisfying.
Berlin, Jan. 13.
The Socialist Party has expelled Dr. Liebknecht owing to "his continual gross offences against his clu! as a member."
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