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Show MAIN AND BOLSHEVIK! SIGN TRADE PACT I ENGLAND GOES I ITER BUSINESS I WITH RUSSIANS I H Way Now Open for Resumption Re-sumption of Commercial Relations Between Two DENY REVOLT RUMOR Trotsky Blames Immigrant 1 Centers Abroad With Stirring Up Reports I.oNDON March 16 (P.y The As- soclated Prejs. The trade agree- H jment under which commercial rela- tions will be resumed by Great Brl'- H aln and Russia wa signed here this H niornlnK bv representatives of tho governments of the two countries. H It was reported the hoard of trade. H after having carried on negotiation H with Keen Krassln. representative of R I the. Russian Bolsl ik government . H j had re-written sev eral clauses, which R I had presented considerable difficult'. H Iii the pas'. The principle that Russia ftH will cease all propaganda outside of H that country an.J that England will H observe neutrality recording Russian H ilrternal affairs was given due recog H ettlon In the clause, which were alt- H ered The fact that the iradc agreement H was about to be signed revived In this N morning's newspapers the controversy H regarding the expediency of such a H TROTZKY TALKS. LONDON. March 16. (By Tire" Associated As-sociated Press) Ieon Trotr.ky. Rus-slan Rus-slan soviet war minister, declared In H an interview given in Moscow that "all talk of an upilsing in Petrograd and a bombardment of the town Is silly H fiction." says a wireless dispatch from the soviet capital todav. Petrograd is Just as Impregnable against a counter-revolutionary coup tal as it is to the Kronstadt fort-ress," fort-ress," Trotsky asserted "Liquidation of the uprising had been dragged out becaus:- we wish to avoid severe losses not only to our troopd, but to the in-surrectlonlsts in-surrectlonlsts in the Kronstadt garrison. garri-son. Up to the present our losses H have been Inalgf leant," Trotzkv charged Russian emigrant centers abroad with fomenting the J revolutionary movement in order to break up peace with Poland and the agreement with Great Britain for the resumption of trade relations. THOUSANDS GATHER. COPENHAGEN, March 10. Fifty thousand men have been gathered at H 'Ji- Russian fortress at Kronstadt and this number is Increasing daily, sa s a Uelslngfors dispatch quoting an Am-orican Am-orican Red Cross worker who has Just arrived here from Kronstadt An or-ganlzation or-ganlzation of Russian emigrants In this cltv has been informed in a wire-less wire-less dispatch that Kronstadt is recojv-lug recojv-lug necessary provisions and has suf-flclent suf-flclent ammunition for three vears. Victor M. TcheTnoff, who was min-ister min-ister of agriculture In the Kerensky cabinet In 1917, was the organizer of H tho counter-revolution, it Is declared by the Polltlken. |