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Show PAPER MONEY II I RUSSIA BY I BALES I There's Enough of It to Gird the Earth Twice at the Equator. But It's Not Worth Much ll By BARBARA DEPORTE, Spe-t-lal Correspondent International j New, S-rvi--- I LONDON, Sept. 18 Imagine hav-ing hav-ing a belt of paper money two yards wide and long enough to go around the earth twice at the equator. This helps to give some Idea of the amount of paper monej Issued by tho Bolsheviks during the first year and a, half of their regime. The soviet government, is now is-suing is-suing ItS money in note.' of 5000 and lo, 000 rubles, because it has so great-ly great-ly depreciated that about the only thing it is poslble to purchase for 100 rubles is a bos of matches When it is remembered that the normal value of 100 rubles I3 $50 some Idea can bo gained of the tre-mi tre-mi ndous depreciation that has taken place in Russian money Thos,. who have recently arrived here from Russia tell amusing, al-though, al-though, at tho same time, pathetic, Bti ' U s about the difficulties which the I Russians are having with money. it sounds like a paradox, but it Is a fact that there Is altogether too much money in Russia just now and too many different kinds. SURPRISING PCT. One of the surprising facts is that the most valuable of all Russian money at the present time is the nott 1st led b; the government of the late BS t This money still retains a fairlv hiKh value as compared with the ! other man; issues and Is eagerly ought for and hidden away when obtained. The next In value is the "Duni- Bkiya," Issued by the Duma right after the revolution; Following that is the "Kerenskl, 1 issued by Kerenskl. This money Is very Insignificant, looking more like -tamps than real money as ll comes in large perforated sheets of twenty notes, ench valued at five iu-bie iu-bie Tho people have long slhdi j ceased tearing off one or two notes when they make a purchase. They I hand out the whole sheet and speak of it as ' yard of Kereniski ' Money is being printed In soviet I Russia In sLx different cities, and each lav three milliards worth of rubles I are printed. Even this is not suffi-dent suffi-dent to supply the many soviet Instl- taken to Increase the daily output to five milliards. COIN FLOODS NATION. The bolsheviks arc not at all em-barrassed em-barrassed by rhe enormous amount of money with which they have flood-ed flood-ed the country On the other hand. thev are printing millions of rubles every day and the consequent result is that it Is dally becoming more and more valueless. At the last session of the central executive committee it was decided 1 1 take measures toward the immediate immedi-ate establishment of an exchange syi- 1 tern whereby goods would bo ex-Changed ex-Changed for other goods or labor, and thus completely abolish money as a medium of barter altogether. The various types of monies men-tloned men-tloned do not by any means constl-tute constl-tute nil the varieties now In clrcula-tlon clrcula-tlon in 1. 11 slfl In the Don region Is found the money issued by Denlkine. In the Crimea the notes handed out ' by the short-lived Crimean republic. ' In Siberia the promises to pay" of Semenoff, Kolchak and Horvat, to-Kether to-Kether with the ' st-Ruhe." issued nt the lime of the German occupa-tlon. occupa-tlon. and the Karbov anets " and Grlvna." issued In the I'kralne. Just to mention o few cf the varieties s ALL NEEDED MONEY. Bach regime as it came into being 1 a ti temporary savior of the particular par-ticular region It was "delivering" at I the time needed mone What was more simple than to print some? viler that It was very easy to put It Into circulation for the inhabitants i could either accept It in payment for I theil goods, or see the goods taken I without payment at all. it was also -eiv dangerous to even suggest thai the money, might not be of any valuo j later and would very likely result in the critli decorating a .tree' at the end : of a rope or facing a firing party. All this money gets mixed up and as the exchange rate for each Is dif-tf dif-tf rent, the ordinary citizen who want- ' ed to estimate his wealth would find himself Involved In a maze of calcu- , latlons sufficient to make the ordi-nary ordi-nary mathematical expert dizzy. Taking as u suggestion that he fig-und fig-und himself 10 be- worth ahout J10o. At th, present rate of exchange ho would be In possession of about 60 000 roubles in Soviet money, 100,000 rou-hies rou-hies in Kbichak's, SemenOffs and 1 "'"'ins "shinplastors," 500.000 in Crimean Horval's and Yudenich promlsei 10 pay s few thousand in the Ukranlan Korbpvgnetses and Griv-nas, Griv-nas, a few more thousands In Kerenskl land Dumski and a few .1 vary few In the still most precious czar roubles. |