Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-07 | Page 8 | England Builds Business with Baltic States

ENGlAND BUIlDS BUSINESS WIT ITH BALTIC BiTIC BAl TIG STATES SHIES Investigator Reports Commerce Commerce Com Coin merce on Russian Border Almost as Flourishing as asin asin in in Days Before Revolt LIBAU Latvia Dec 6 Bv Dv A A. A P.- P. England today toda Is doing almost as much business with the states bordering bordering bor bor- dering daring on Russia as was carried on with the Russian empire before the war according to J. J L L. W W. Lyde professor of ot geography In London Londo university un and his assertions have aroused considerable interest In the tho new Baltic states tates Latvia alone bought more British goods last year ear earthan than soviet Russia and Finland bou bought ht two and a half times as much from England as the Moscow government Professor Protessor Lyde maintains that very few tew of or the English goods enter the new Baltic states are ars transshipped into soviet Russia Last Year rear soviet Russia took English goods goods' valued at about The Baltic states bou bought ht British products valued at oin RUSSIA PRIMITIVE I Real Muscovite Russia j is too primitive and limited in its buying power to consume large quantities ot of western manufactured goods ac according according according ac- ac cording to the English professor who points out that much of ot the most productive territory pf of the old Russian empire Is now o outside the soviet territory and that the agrIcultural agricultural agricultural agri agrI- cultural area of ot European soviet Russia Is overpopulated Professor Lyde says sas the loss Qt pf to persons and of to square miles of ot territory as a result of the war has lias not bettered e soviet le Russia's s a overpopulation ro tu a r situation i as s there t la much rich land in the lost domain SLl SLAVE YE TO AMERICA As A Russia's total wheat and rye crops are not now sufficient to sup sup- I lv ly her own population with a adaily adaily adaily daily bread ration of one pound a a. person Professor Lyde says it is er erroneous erroneous er- er to regard her as exercising an any considerable influence on the I world price of breadstuffs Before I the Franco Prussian war brought America Into the European wheat market Professor Protessor Lyde says Russia Bus Rus ala sia exercised a sort of ot monopoly but lut now he lie says Russia is a mere slave to American grasslands with I which she cannot compete In quantity quantity quan quan- or quality or even In price and she exercises no influence whatever on the world food prices I