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Show SOVIET EXPORTS 11 t 1 1 li Former Member of Russian Duma Believes Litfle Material Ma-terial Can Be Spared CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 11 ( By j the- Associated Press.) Russia's abll-jily abll-jily to export raw materials in the ne&r future has been greatly over-estimated by foreign countries in tho opinion of Colonel B. E&nglehard, formerly a member of the Russian duins and a student of economic cond ns In Rus- si- before and after the revolution. In s talk with The Associated Press correspondent cor-respondent he said that foreigners peem to fall to realize, the collapse of .the Russian transportation systems, reduced manpower and run-down coii-iilltion coii-iilltion of t ne Russian farm lands This comment was evoked by reports re-ports of the negotiations of Russian economic agents with Premier Lloyd George in London and the announcement announce-ment tha the United States had lifted lift-ed prohibitions upon American trade with soviet Russia. Colonel Englehurd Is confident that I Russia WW again play an important I role in Europnn markets but. he said, I the revival of Russian trade will not I come until there shall be established .a normal state of life when m. n shall renounce attempts of establishing Im-I Im-I mediately the paradise of communism. It should be borne !n mind that European Russia has been greatly reduced re-duced In size." .id Colon, i Eknglehard. "Formerly It had over D.OOO.OOO square kilometers of land and 1 57,000.000 In-I In-I habitants. Poland. Finland, a great j part of the Caucasus and several Bal-ItK Bal-ItK provinces, with about SO, 000,000 Inhabitants and about l.i'50.000 square kilometers of land have detached themselves The greater poit of these detached territories ordinarily had a notable surplus of grain and other farm products which constituted the major pari of Russia's exports. "In 1!13. the last year when conditions con-ditions wcrcn 0r1n.1l in Russia, exports vwiv valued at l.r.00.000.000 gold ru-bles, ru-bles, or J750.000.000 The greatest single ite mln the export list was grain The total grain exports were 12.870 -OOOtoOa, valued at $325,000,000. European Eu-ropean Russia used to harvest 58.500.- oco tons of grain annually. With its reduced area, with the breaking up of Lip: estates, lack ot machiner.v and ruin w rought by continuous war In many of Us most fertile areas It may be affirmed af-firmed the grain harvest of the sovle' republic will sr urcely reach 3,150.-0C0 3,150.-0C0 toos annually One cannot count (on any considerable exportation of grain from soviet Russia in the immediate imme-diate future. So far as Siberia and tho provinces In Central Asia are concerned con-cerned they used to produce S00 pounds of grain for each inhabitant. I Th civil war must have reduced the normal very considerably and it is .doubtful whether any considerable. lOJUantlty Of grain can hf. exported from (Siberia " 1 I |