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Show I SALVATIOIV OF RUSSIA III HAKDS OF ALLIES ; One of the Men Who Deposed De-posed Nicholas Tells of Situation at Home. CHICAGO, May 1. Alexander A. Bub-likoff, Bub-likoff, one of the party that captured j Czar Nicholas, and member of the Russian Rus-sian duma executive committee, arrived in Chicago today from New York to help In the Liberty loan campaign. Speaking of the Russian situation, he said: "One-half of Russia today is mortgaged. mort-gaged. In other words, the national wealth is 120,000,000,000 rubles, while the national debt is 60,000,000.000 rubles. Before Be-fore the war there was about 1,000,000,000 rubles In paper money. Today the amount of paper money is 2S,000,OQu,UOO rubles. "There was a time when Russia could have been saved through economical assistance, as-sistance, but it is too late now. unless with that economical aid comes political and military aid. Just as an example, the help of the allied armies, and particularly par-ticularly of America, would be welcomed. But anything that the Japanese army by itself would do would be considered an enemy invasion. "The only place where the Bolsheviki have had influence of any consequence has been in the larger cities. In the small towns and the country they are little heard of." As for Germany's chance to get a foothold foot-hold in Russia, he said: "The shortage in railroad cars and locomotives lo-comotives will prevent Germany from petting far in Russia. Munition plants in Germany today are running far under normal, because of this same reason, namely, insufficient coal and crippled condition con-dition of transportation." Mr. Bublikoff was asked with whom the United States and the allies should treat in Russia. "The people lo treat with are not in Russia," he replied. "The leaders in Russian political life are in this country and in the allied countries. They want help for Russia, The salvation of my country lies in the hands of the allies." |