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Show - m m m m PEACE PACT COHCLUflED mill Wireless Dispatch From Moscow Brings News of the Conclusion of Lengthy Negotiation; HELSINGFORS, Finland, Feb.' 11. The treaty of peaer betweenjwviet Russia and Poland was signed at Riga yesterday, it is announced in wireless dispatch dis-patch from Moscow. ! AMERICAN TRADE WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. Th-American Th-American government must extent credit to Russia before trade with th, Holatievikl aan be estabUebed .on sn considerable acaie.' Arthur- Bullani chief of the state department Russian division, declared yesterday before the house foreign affairs committee. com-mittee. Attempts of private agencies to finance trade relations have failed he added, and will continue to fun until governmental assistance la extended. ex-tended. Urawing a dark picture of conditions condi-tions In Russia, Mr. Bullard said executions ordered by military tribunals tribu-nals totaled 1000 a month, and that many persons were shot for such offense as drunkenness and disorderly dis-orderly conduct. c r Sonet Oppose League Troop - LONDON, Kb. 11 (By the Associated Presa.) The Russian soviet govern- ment has notified Lithuania that It would be considered a definite act of hostility by Lithuania If a league of nations army Is allowed to occupy tha Vilna district pending the plebiscite,! according to a report. The report is considered as constituting a definite bolshevik: threat against the military I authority of the league of nations. f The soviet warning Is a result of Poland's appeal (or league troops at ( Vilna, on the plea that the forces of. Ceneral Zellgouskl, insurgent leader. I have been disbanded on the request of the league of nations and that the three Lithuanian armies now on the borders will occupy the district and render an impartial plebiscite impossible. EXCUSE FOR ACTION. Dispatches from Riga express the fear that the soviet authorities are employing em-ploying the Vilna situation as an excuse ex-cuse for action against Lithuania and the Baltic states. A Iierlln dispatch quotes a Stock I holm reiMirt as saying Russian soviet (authorities have agreed to the dispatch of American and Italian troops to th Vilna plebiscite district, but that they will not tolerate presence of British and French forces. |