Show I I BEWARE RUSSIA 5 EXPORTERS tit TOLD C C. C P P. P Railway Tay r Official Predicts Predicts Predicts Pre Pre- Financial Ci Crash ash When Then Bolshevik i Fall hall Chicago o. June 7 Russia's Hussla's Russia's financial system toda today rests upon the tho ruble note which is tho the symbol of the tho governments government's govern govern- governments ments ment's hope huyo to lo redeem it some someday da day if it has good luck The country's transportation trans trans' porta lion system Is la as chaotic as Its politics and 1 its Ita fl I I u unu i a A nances Ci jo This is the opinion of Col John S S. Dennis chief commissioner of or the thc Canadian Canadian Can Can- adian adlan Pacific Pacific railway C Colonel lonel Dennis Dennl has Just returned from Crom Siberia where I ho he was in charge of transportation I with the thc Canadian expeditionary force Russia an and Siberia said s Colonel I Dennis on a visit to Chicago present tho the greatest t undeveloped market In his history tor f fur for r merchants and manufacturers ers rs of or the tiro United States and Canada Russia Is a 3 nation of or peo peo- Its supplies from the outside world have ha been shut off and ln its factories fac fac- tories and industries have been closed down n for four years Any surplus stocks it ma may o ha cave had at the beginning beginning begin begin- ning of the war were exhausted long ago o. The Russian people toda today nee need I clothes boots headgear drugs j I tural implements and household articles arts arti I d cles es What hat they the havo have is is- S' S worn won out The They can obtain g- g gnew new Houses ha leave have become ramshackle wrecks farm tarm fences ha have fallen down because there arc no hammers and nails with which to ke keep p them In repair Fields arc are unplowed unplowed unplowed un- un plowed because there arc are no plows Broken win windows let in the tho cold be bec because be- be c cause use there Is no window glass All Russia Is fast becoming a vast economic econom- econom c ic ruin But i If it merchants of other nations landed goods In Russia through h the po ports ts which aro now open the mer mer- chandise could not be distributed In the Interior Railway trans transportation p orta throughout hout the nation nallon is s paralyzed zed Track age Is out ut of or repair rolling stock Is depleted and antiquated d. d and labor Is scarce because mone money values are precarious It will be years before the railways reach their old normal which I was wag Itself a n minimum m of efficiency A stable financial system Is ly the I foundation of or industry everywhere Russian finances have e no stability y The Thc nations nation's ol g-ol gold fold reserve reser was e eed exhausted exhaust exhaust- ed to pa pay obligations Incurred heC before re the thc war Standard mono money values alues depreciated de depreciated de- de with the tho overthrow o o of the czars czar's go government nt The successive revolutionary rev rev- governments go issued r their own paper curr currency ency ba based ed on airy promises to re redeem eem It Tho The Bolshevist administration n la is issuing mone money as fast as If IC the printing presses presses' can turn It out ont I another government gO rises on the ruins of or this one all this paper will be as worthless I as the tho mone money of ot t the confederate states after the civil war Desperate as arc Russia's the needs I nations nation's situation must remain hopeless until order is s restored and a stable government I Is firmly established in this P war post period of oC In international international in- in cial readjustment and anel ommer expansion the United States and Canada will do well to forget Russia Hussla as af an export market et and turn to the lie exploitation of or other more promising foreign fields j j I I |