Paris, Dec. 28.
The Senate unanimously voted today the estimates of the "ordinary budget" for the fiscal year of 1940. The total revenue amounts to 79,24: 000,000 Francs and the total expenditure to 78,919,000,000 Francs.
Senator Abel Gardey, of the Finance Committee of the Senate, stated that the total expenditure which includes the extraordinary war-budget may reach 300,000,000,000
Francs next year.
Pointing out that the present position of the French finances was stronger than in 1914, he stated that in times of war the government must have recourse to loans since taxation alone could not possibly cover all war needs, M. Paul Reynaud, Minister of Finance, then explained that bearing of the financial agreement signed by Sir John Simon, British Chancellor of the Exchequer' and himself, which provides for the division between Great Britain and France, of the common expenses of the two countries, including the upkeep of the Polish army. He specified also that this agreement is already applying io the assistance given to Finland by the Allies—Havas, Trade Mark Perfect Doll's Prams Most modern
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