The Archive · 1931

Netherlands Faced with Deficit

The Hague, Sept. 10.

Though, next to France, the rich-Jest country in Europe to-day, the Netherlands government is "also confronted with a deficit in its bud-leet and to-day submitted to the Chamber a supplementary financial This bill provides for a genral increase in custom tariffs from eight to ten per cent. whereby about half of the deficit of some 20,000,000 Jwill be covered. The other half will Jcome from a small tax on gasoline.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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