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Show Foreign Funds Withheld. PETROGRAD, Saturday, Jan. 5. Foreign For-eign Minister Trotssky today issued an order or-der forbidding banks to pay out money deposited by foreign embassies. When asked by the Associated Press the object of these instructions, M. Trotzky said: "The old Russian government has funds deposited to its credi t in banks abroad and until those deposits are placed at the disposal of the rounril of national commissioners the embassies cannot draw , the moneys they have on deposit in Rus- ; sian banks." The American embassy is among those that have been refused funds. The National City hank, an A m erica n concern, was permitted to open for 11m- . Ucd business today. I |