Tales Told About Russian , Building on Street In Washington WASHINGTON, April 7. Mystery surrounds the million dollar pile, known as the Russian embassy, on fashionable Sixteenth street. Gossip ha3 it that behind those imposing im-posing walls poverty exists, that funds are running lower and lower. Tales are being told like that of a dentist bill which was paid with ono of the fleet of automobiles formerly the personal property of the lato Czar of Russia. Antique furniture is being disposed of piece by piece to pay expenses, it is said. What government do the present occupants of the embassy represent? Whence comes the money for its maintenance? Is it true that the state department depart-ment to about to order them to get out of the embassy wihin a certain time? On nono of thoso questions has a conclusive answer been given. Who Owns Building? It is known that an investigation is under way to determino who what government or person or persons is the present owner of the embassy building. It used to belong to the czar he personally hold title to such Russian government buildings. But tho czar has long been dead and his crowd scattered. Does the building rovert to the czar's personal heirs, or to the Russian Rus-sian government? And if the latter WHAT Russian government? Those questions puzzle state department depart-ment officials. The Present "Ambassador" The present incumbent of the embassy, em-bassy, Boris A. Bakhmetioff, came here as an ambassador from the Kerensky government dispossessing George Bakhmetieff, who represented the czar. ja mtjic is iiu i.vi:usiy i;uv eminent em-inent now, Boris Is an "ambassador" without a government. And needless to say neither Kerensky Ker-ensky nor his followers can maintain today such an expensive establishment. establish-ment. Kolchak and Donlken adherents are supposed to have supported the Bakhmetieff Bakh-metieff "embassy" for a timo. But since Kolchak has been executed exe-cuted and Denlken driven to Crimea, outside the boundaries of Russia, it is hard to see why Bakhmetieff is allowed al-lowed to remain as an "ambassador." Is U. S. Paying Bills? Time and again a clamor has been raised in Congress for an Investigation Investiga-tion to determine whether the 1S7,-000,000 1S7,-000,000 that this government lent to war WAS USED EXCLUSIVELY TO MAJNTAN THE "EMBASSY" HERE ever found. I put the question baldly to one oL the attaches: "What government do you represent?" repre-sent?" "That is a long complicated question," ques-tion," he evaded. But I finally extracted the information informa-tion that they represented the "anti-Bolshevik "anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia" which at the present writing seems to be only an "Jdea." 00