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Show II GMIIB, CATTLE JUB FLAX TO BE TRADED FDR ALLIED GOODS 1 Elaborate Preparations Going I On For Resumption of Trade f Relations With Soviets I SHIPS TO ENTER AT I SEAPORTS OF NORTH tf Representatives Declare Fears I of Bolshevik Distribution to I Favorites Groundless : PARIS, Jan. 20 Elaborate plans i i for the resumption of commercial lela- ; lions between the Russian people and ' allied nations have been worked out ' ' and it is expected the Bolshoviki will 1 1 permit the free interchange of manufactured manu-factured goods and raw materials. It will be a comparatively simple matter ; : to distribute goods among the Russian people under rhe agreement reached Ilast Friday by the supreme council, il ; is understood by Russians who assist- ' ed in the negotiations that preceded ; the committee. Surplus stocks of 'i wheat, flax and lumber await export ; from Russia, and all that is needpd is ocean tonnage to carry these products to the markets of the world. ' Details of the plan to be followed ; were given The Associated Press to- day by Alexander M. Berkenheim and : Konstantin Krovopouskoff, respective-- respective-- ly president and member of the for- eign board of the Russian co-opera- 5 tlve union, through which-trade will I be carried on. The conducted negotia-1 negotia-1 lions with the supreme council which : brought 'about the adoption of a poli- cy reversing that followed by the alii al-ii lies (Juring the last two years. '' Economic Arrangement. m "It must be understood the agree- II ment hAs no political character what- soever," said M. Berkenheim. ''It is II merely an economic, financial and hu-j mm inanitarian arrangement. Russian co-i B operative unions, organized fifty years ( now number 500 branches and have' 50,000 local societies with 25,000,000 members. These societies operate K throughout Russia whether under Bol- Hhevilc rule or controlled by other gov-fl gov-fl ernments. It is a sort of Russian eco- Iwm nomic Red Cross. I "In February, 1919, we laid before I I the British foreign office and also be-1 fore the secretary of Premier Lloyd j I George our plan, which now has been I adopted, for the exchange of Russian raw material for manufactured goods I from allied countries. : Huge Food Stocks. J "This plan is very simple. We havei in Russia large stocks of wheat, ce-' reals, cattle and flax which are now larger than Russia ever disposed of. "Three problems must be met in or-I or-I der to arrive at an exchange of goods ( first, transformation of raw material X outside of Russia; second, the mode of S payment to the Russian producor and M third, distribution of imported goods 10 Russian consumers. 'I "We require farming and agricultu-1 agricultu-1 ' ral implements, cloth, shoes, locomo-: locomo-: tives, motors, automobiles and medical j 1 supplies. Ship tonnage must be fur-! nished by the allies as Russia's hip- ping has completely disappeared. We must import first in order to export Ships may enter at the Baltic and j White seaports loaded with goods needed by Russia and may return with ' our exports." M. Berkenheim would not say ' whether this tonnage had been prom- f ised by Great Britain. I Statement Disputed. The correspondent informed M. Ber-:i Ber-:i kenhelm that it was the belief in k France that the Bolshevlki would su-' su-' pervise distribution and allow goods to ' reach their adherents while the rest ;t of the population might go barefooted and naked. "Our stores are not under the control con-trol of the Bolsheviki," he replied. ! . "When the Moscow government na- llonalized all stores and closed them, our stores continued business undis-j ; turbed. This was not through any un- due friendship with the do facto gov-: gov-: ernment but because of the high es-, teem in which the co-operative soci-i soci-i ; eties are held by the population ;: throughout Russia. Wo feel euro our headquarters in Moscow can reach a ,: satisfactory agreement with the soviot authorities for an impartial distribu- tion, "This is the beginning of the resurrection resur-rection of economic life in Russia' said M. Krovopouskoff. How About America? ; M. Berkenheim said ho did not know whether the agreement included America. As far as he and his colleagues col-leagues were concerned, negotiations were carried only with Premiers Clem-; Clem-; enceau, Lloyd George and Nitti, but he ; , expressed the hope that it would not , tie long before a similar arrangement Was made with the United States. , ii. The Russian consulate general wns 15 "bday crowded with Russians desirous If of obtaining transports to return to il their country. Prince Koudacheff.-tho M consul general, said the refugees be- lieved diplomatic relations had been resumed, with Russia and that a state of peace had been reached. He required requir-ed extra clerks today to issue and vise passports -but they were particular particu-lar engaged in explaining thnt conditions con-ditions were unchanged and that, it would be inadvisable to attempt to return re-turn to Russia at present. |
