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Show g g gt. g a 99 k SOVIET ARMY OifEl FROM LAST TOWS IS EAST PART OF LET! 11 Much War Material and Hundreds Hun-dreds of Prisoners Taken in Successful Operations RED FORCES MOW ON , RETREAT, REPORTED Washington Takes Up Problem Prob-lem of Trading With Russia; Other Nations Busy LONDON. Jan. 28 A peace treatv between Esthonia and the Russian soviet government govern-ment is to be signed tomorrow, tomor-row, according to a dispatch from Riga to the Exchange Telegraph company. Esthonia Estho-nia is to receive financial and other material help under the peace agreement. The treatv. according to these advices, provides that Esthonia shall receive 16.-000.000 16.-000.000 rubles in gold, concessions conces-sions for the construction of a railway from Reval to Moscow, Mos-cow, materials for building the line and 300 locomotives. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 2S. Lettish troops have captured Guzyn, the last town in eastern Letvia occupied by Russian Bolshovlki, and have reached the Lettish-Russian frontier at many places, according to a Lettish official offi-cial report quoted in Riga advices re-ceiv?d re-ceiv?d here. Much war material and 1 2000 prisoners have been captured and fighting continues along the whole .front, it is said. The Bolshevik! forces on the Lettish front are retreating eastward, according accord-ing to the report, and many dtach-) dtach-) meUs have been annihilated in recent fighting. Trading With Russia. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S The question ques-tion of trading with Russia in the view of officials of the state department depart-ment will have lo be taken up through direct negotiations by tho various governments gov-ernments interested. It was learned today that thero now js no central body in Paris empowered to take up such questions of international moment mo-ment to which the United States will be a party. The council of ambassadors, ambassa-dors, it was said, has become simply a clearing house for information to be imparted to the various nations represented rep-resented and all questions will be considered con-sidered by interchange of notes through diplomatic channels. . Permission to Trade. It was stated officially that permission permis-sion to trade with Russia would not be considered without guarantees that the Bolsheviki will not use materials and food secured in barlor for political purposes. Representatives of tho American Am-erican business concerns who assembled assem-bled here last week to urge granting of licenses for trade with soviet Russia from the state department wrote Sec-, rcttiry Lansing today asking for a def-i inition of policy by the government toward to-ward proposals of American mamifac-! tturers to open trading relations wilhj Russia. j Closing Contracts. j Calling the attention of Secretary j Lansing to the report that csaimerciai representatives of other nations "are from information and advice at hand in that country at the present time, preparing and closing contracts and securing valuable concessions from the Russian government," tho representatives repre-sentatives who have formed an organization organi-zation Inquired why American manufacturers manu-facturers known as the merican commercial com-mercial association had been refused export licenses for shipments to Russia. Rus-sia. ' Announcement was made that the association had decided to send a delegation dele-gation to Russia to conduct trade negotiations. ne-gotiations. oo |