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Show RUSSIAN SHIPS REQUISITIONED Former Transports to Be Used in Entente orvice for Duration of War. MEW YORK. April 4 The I nited Sta'es has rerju islt loned for use in1 entente service a number rf Russian .steamships formerly engaged In transporting trans-porting supplies between America and RtU sia. according to authoritative Information In-formation received in shipping circles here today. The vessels are those which were detained in American ports when the present Russian government came into power They will eontinue to fly the Russian flap Ii is understood they will be operated by the Russian volun- I teer fleet, which represents the former Russian government in the United j States and is still intact. Some of tho vessels are on the Pacific Pa-cific coast and will be brought to the' Atlantic coast. Another of the ships' IS nf which was recently held at a oath Atlantic port after a mutiny and the removal of her crew charged with being supporters of the Bolshevik!. |