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Show DROP TALKS OF TRADE WITH SOVIET RUSSIA WASHINGTON, May 15, The desolate des-olate picture of conditions in soviet Russia drawn by Colonel Ryan, Red Cross 'commissioner for the northern Russia and confirmed by other state department reports, will prevent present consideration of proposals to resume trade relations with that country, officials Indicated here to-day. to-day. The Bolshovlki, it was said, have arrested directors of the Moscow cooperatives, co-operatives, confirming intimations that trade relations with these organizations or-ganizations independent of soviet control was Impossible. The state department has also learned that the Danish commltteo In Copenhagen whose plans for an international conference In May recently re-cently were concluded with Krassln, ' Bolshevikl minister of trade and commerce had severed all relations with tho Bolshevlki envoy. |