ITALY: Wealth Estimate

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Last week those of Rome's lower classes who were able to read perused with awe an announcement made by one Dr. A. Degil Espinosa, whom U. S. correspondents described as a "financial expert." After several months of careful figuring Dr. Espinosa published his estimate of the private wealth in Italy—$25,000,000,000. Of this amount, he computed that $8,000,000,000 was in the form of land, $1,250,000,000 in foreign bonds.

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