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Show RUSSIA SEEKS AMERICAN TRADE Hope to Create Demand for Hand-Made Lace and to Provide Work for Crippled Soldiers. San Francisco, Aug. 13. Russia Is seeking to create a market In the United States for Russian koustar or lace, handwork of the peasants, with a view to providing employment for her maimed and crippled soldiers, according ac-cording to an announcement made today to-day by Theodore Kryshtofovlch, special spe-cial commissioner from Russia to the United States, who has arrived here from Petrograd, via Japan. ., The direction of the lace industry, s"ald the commissioner, has been taken ta-ken over by the Russian government. Able bodied peasants will no longer bo allowed to make lace. The work will be turned over to crippled soldiers sol-diers incapacitated for ordinary work Russia Asks Opportunity. "Russia, with Its wonderful potential poten-tial wealth," said the commissioner, "asks no help but only opportunity to help Itself to give suitable employment employ-ment to Its Incapacitated soldiers. "I am on my way to New York, where a large shipment of samples of Russian kouster handwork Is awaiting Its arrival. It will be shown to the big American buyers there, In Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Fran-cisco. Mr. Kryshtofovlch said he was In the United States as a special representative rep-resentative of the Russian minister of agriculture and that he was selected for the mission because of his former residence In the United States, when he was Russian agricultural commissioner commis-sioner of St. Louis. oo |