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Show nSSShi ' Immense Sum Required to Put Country on Working Basis. LONDON, June 21 (Mall.) Conviction Con-viction that tho Bolshovlk government of Russia would inevitably bo overthrown over-thrown and that a now Russian government gov-ernment would, first of nil, take steps to pay Russla'B foreign debt, was expressed ex-pressed by Dr. David Soskico at a recent re-cent meeting of tho holders of Russian Rus-sian bonds here. Dr. Sosltlco is confidential confi-dential secretary to former Premier Korensky of Russia. Ho declared that it would require an immense amount of capital to rccon struct the great Industrial and agricultural agri-cultural fabric of Russia. Russia j said, can only find that capital In England Eng-land and America. 1 C. Birch, banker, said he believed ' the majority of tho people of Russia j would embrace tho first opportunity to sot themselves right with the rest of I tho civilized world. I The chairman of tho meeting said! it was almost Impossible to ascertain I the amount of Russia's debt. Accord- ' ing to information received by the London Stock Exchange, it amounted, j on January 1. 1917. to about 3.358.- i 000,000. Of this, he said tho dlrec-' loann mado by the state probably would amount to 1,100,000,000. In ' addition there were twelve municipal loans isniiod by nine principal Russian cine, to the amount of 20,000,000. j It wuf not clear whether these figures included tho war advances made to j RUBSia by the allied nations. This wero unofficially stated to aggregato from 100,000,000 to 800,000,000. |