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Show 1WI I CLOTHING. FOOD ID- " DRUGS TO SOVIETS Attitude of Entente Toward Trotzky-Lenine Regime Re- ! mains Unchanged - Ijl DECISION IS REACHED BY SUPREME COUNCIL Arrangements Made So Sup plies Will Reach Peasants of Red Nation LONDON, Jan. 17. Commercial re-lations re-lations will be re-opened between the allied nations and the Hussion people at once as a result of a decision reach-ed reach-ed by the supreme council at Paria i today. This step docs not imply an altered attitude toward the Trotzky- Lenine government, according to the J statement Issued by the council. IH Clothing, medicines, agricultural IH machinery and other necessities will jH be shipped into Russia from entente IH ! nations which will receive in payment IH grain, flax, and other products which the Russian people desire to export. jH Arrangements by which supplies sent IH to Russia tvillyroach the peasants will IH : be made,,.iCis understood. , Newspaper Comment Relations between the allies and IH soviet Russia, fill a great deal of space IH in this morning's newspapers. Dispatches from Paris show a strange conflict of views regarding tho hurried journey to that city on Thurs- IH day or ministers and chiefs of tl o army and navy. Some advices assert they were summoned there to consider the danger from Bolshevism while others declare that they we.re.' cabled jH for a general' discussion of the Euro- IH peon situation , . v., -- "The allies must decide quickly Ayh.it the activities against Bolshevism are ,H to be in the noxl few" weeks, and days," says the Evening News. "There jH is no use to talk without action; that is not the way to deal with a situation which without guilt of panic must be tM watched with some dread. The Bol-shevists Bol-shevists want to destroy the efficiency of tho league of nations. What Is the league's reply? The council's deliber-atlons deliber-atlons have a personal interest for Britons and are of greater significance jthan most of us realize at the moment. jH jWhal is the premier's policy now? The country 'cannot permit him to be too The Star says the semi-official state-meut state-meut regarding Bolshevism is "verv jH ominous." "In Plain English," the I newspaper declares, "the English coal-jition coal-jition has failed and is preparing to drag us into vast military adventures involving an illimitable expenditure I We are paying the price or our stupid- jity in waging war against the soviet government or Russia." Representatives here of Russian co- operative organizations are eagerly awaiting advices as to how the allied lfl (decision to partially raise the Russian 'blockade will be made elective. Although the official statement set-ting set-ting forth the allied decision indicates , that trading between public firms and individuals is still under the ban, the importance of the ruling may be ap- lH predated when it is slated that the co-operative co-operative societies, which alone are ai- i fected. in recent years have become !the chief medium for the distribution I of goods to the Russian peasants. I Ten of these organizations ksning ! offices in London claim to represent IH j the interests of upwards of 50,000,000 peasants. I It is believed in some quarters that ' the lifting or the ban of the vasr ac-cumulation ac-cumulation of Russian produce await-! await-! ins export may have a far-reaching ef-i ef-i rcct on prices in the world's markets I no ' iH |