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Show BRITAIN WOULD USE RUSSIA TO I RUKEJOBS Business With Reds Would Make Factories -Hum and End Unrest By Mil I'JN BRONNER LONDON, Jan. 1 "vVhlle the I'mted States Is preparing to deport Ludwig C. A K. Martens, the self-styled Bolshevik Bol-shevik ambassador to America, Great Britain continues to deal with Gregory Kr.i'sin. 'he head of the Russian soviet so-viet trade delegation to England. The Washington government Is mainly concerned with keeping out Bolshevik poison. Britain also is worried by Russian I propaganda, but Is looking toward resumption re-sumption of trade with Russia, thus .hoping to solve unemployment and kill Bolshevism at one stroke- Bill I IN Mv-. I l l IK. I The i:ntih government is asking pledges from tho Bolshevik! that they will not propagandize British territory. terri-tory. Persia and Afghanistan. It also lis asking guarantees Russia will pay past debts and for future goods and ' services. j The Bolrdievlkl's reply Is that they I won t pay debts of the old regime or Jof So let enemies. Thi same principle, prin-ciple, applied to America, would mean t filial to pay J187.000.000 loaned bv rWeshlhStOn to Russia for war PUT- pi.sr j The Bolshevlki demand guarantees that g"ld and goods sent Britain will not b attached in courts by creditors .holding claims against former Russian governments. i , Important British interests are urg-ln? urg-ln? Premier Lloyd George to ooncuds the trade arrangement, as Russia of-1 tore them a hlg outlet for textiles clothing, shoes, agricultural imple-imjants, imple-imjants, rails and rolling stock. Many ltritlnh fictories engaged in' .Ihese line,, ;.re running half time sol K K i IPPOS1TION Opposition to resumption of trade! relations with Russia is led by corpor-! fations claiming more than 1500.000.-!000 1500.000.-!000 damage was done their Russian j properties by the Bolshevlki. W hlle negotiations are pending Kraedm has luxurious offices in a b-;nk building on Mend -ireer Ills en-; graved Htatlonery Is embL'Mlshed with Bolshevik emblems I Mi ItLlP COSi ES6ION6 From Bolnheiik sources tomes tho denial that the Lenin -Trotzky regime has given the American syndicate rep. resented by Washington l Vanderllp sovereign rights over Siberian territory. terri-tory. It Is explained Vanderllp got only the rights to exploitation of on. coal and fisheries. The exploitation of ores I furs are reserved to the Bolshevik government. Exploration, engineering and railroad rail-road construction Is to be paid for by the Am eti OSUl syndicate. The territory containing oil has lee divided Into four-mile squares. Alternate squares on this checker-i boned belong t0 the concessionaries and the government. This reserves to the Bolshevik! a " " hance of g.timg the profits from paving oil fields |