The Italian Legation has handed the following to Reuter:—
"The Italinn Minister of Finance has announced in Parliament that the Italian budget of 1024-1025 shows a credit balance of 417 mil-Tion lire, an increase of 208,000,000 on the estimate made by the former Minister of Finance. The amount is the highest reached since 1870, the year of the unifiention of the Kingdom. This splendid. financial achievement is the Dest demonstration of the work aecomplished by the Fascisti Government during the last three years.—Reuter's Pacific Service,
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