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Show DIFFICULTIES SEE! 1 nM TB BEGIN TMIIlTKSj Bolsheviki Declared to be Putting Put-ting Blocks to Moves Made For Resumption MILITARY OFFENSIVE ON POLAND DENIED Conflicting Views Develop As to Menace of "Reds" In United States PARIS, Feb 6, Doubt as to the practical working of the plan for the partial resumption of trade with Rus sia through the Russian co-operative societies developed at today's session nf tho nnuncil of ambassadors. During discussion it was declared that the soviet government, after saying it would consent to the proposed restricted restrict-ed trading with the outside world through these co-operative societies, had shown a disposition to tic up the societies with official administration in such a way as to make even partial par-tial trading impossible. The attention of the counci lwas called by Ambassador Wallace to the fnct that the representatives of the Uni-.cd States on the expert commls-.sioasla, commls-.sioasla, supervise the distribution of xailvay rolling stock on:thcr-llnea.TU"n-nin-j from Germany Into territories de-" tacned from the empire had been designated des-ignated under Article 371 of the peace treaty to preside over such commissions. commis-sions. The absence of American representation rep-resentation on the commissions required re-quired the taking of some action Jn this respect, he pointed out. The council coun-cil decided that provisional presidents should be chosen. REPORTS DENIED. COPENHAGEN, Wednesday, Feb. 4. Reports thatthe Bolsheviki government govern-ment of Russia plans a military of; fensive against Poland, are denied by Maxim Litvinoff, representative of the soviet government LONDON, Feb. 6. A large portion of the garrison of Odessa belonging to General Denikino's army has been made prisoner, according to advices from that city transmitted by the Central Cen-tral News correspondent in Paris. The remainder of these troops have been disarmed in Rumanian territory, it is added. CONFLICTING VIEWS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. Conflicting views as to tho danger to the United States from radicals now in this country coun-try were presented today to the house Judiciary committee considering anti-sedition anti-sedition legislation. Francis H. F. Crane, former federal dlstiict attorney at Philadelphia, who resigned recently because he was not in sympathy with Attorney General Palmer's campaign against the "reds," told the committee that much of the agitation about Bolshevism In America was "mere talk." Attorney General Charles D. Newton, New-ton, of New York, disagreed with this vitw, declaring that thousands of radi- I cals backed by a radical press, were daily advocating tho revolutionary 'overthrow of the government and the establishment of a dictatorship. Congress and the people of the United States should awaken to the danger of the doctrines of these radi- cals and take necessary stops to curb their propaganda, Mr. Newton said. nn |