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The statistical report of the Government of Austria places the deficit for the first half of the current fiscal year at 500,000,000,000 kronen ($7,000,000) less than before the League of Nations reconstruction scheme was put into effect.

With a population of 6,585,385, no less than 960,000 persons are dependent upon the State for their support.

The census taken last March shows an increase of 403,940 over the figures of the 1920 census. Actual figures 1920--6,131,445; 1922--6,535,385. The city of Vienna now has a population of 1,865,110 as against 1,841,326 in 1920, or near three-tenths of the total population of Austria.

The Vienna Bourse recorded 1,300,000 transactions in three days recently. This is a record. Rise in the value of stocks and shares is reported to be general. More than 50 securities are listed on the Bourse whose shares stand at over 1,000,000 kronen ($14).

Vienna has 1,800 lawyers, or one for every 1,000 of the population. (In the U. S. there is one lawyer for every 861.) They find it hard to make a living since their connections in Lemberg, Cracow, Trieste and Brunn were severed by the Treaty of St. Germain and because now the Supreme Court in Vienna is only the final court of appeal for Austria.