Substantial Reductions in the Defence Estimates Berlin, Apr. 8.
The Cabinet has sanctioned re-@uctions in the Budget amounting to 179,000,000 marks, thus bringing the deficit down to 201,000,000, The economies effected include a jeaving of 27,000,000 marks in the estimates for the Ministry of Defence, of which 7,600,000 has been lopped off the Army Estimates and 19,500,000 off the Navy Estimates.
As a result of the cuts in th Budget which have been made order to re-establish harmony. by-tween the different political parties constituting the Government, the Aerial Trafic Department of' the Ministry of Communications has suffered severely.
'A. sum of 4,500,000 marks allocate ed for building a new Zeppelin shed has been cancelled, which means postponing the construction of a new Zeppelin which would have been s0 large that it would have been possible to house it in the old hangar, 2 Practically controls aerial communications ju Central Europe, has been reduced by half, involving the dismissal of 60 per cent. of the personnel, restriction of its "international air' service, and tension of acrodromes in Get many, unless Lufthansa can obtain Government support for a loan 23 replace the cuts in the Budget, Dr. Eekener, the famous Zeppeli designer, is very depressed owing: to the reduction of the subsidy. He says that hopes of further development of airship construction in Get are dead.—Reuter.
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