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Show RUSSIA EAGER TO BUILD WORLD TRADE I'OXfrrA.VTlNOPI.E. March IS llorisl iw Kdudlsh. Russian soviet traile commissioner. In Constantinople, says (hat Kussla Is exporting wool, timber, furs, skins, silks and other goods In exchange foi food. uKrlcultural Implements, Imple-ments, drugs. optical Instruments which are In great need In Russia. "We have made Important contraota with British and French firms." he continued. "Twenly-fivi ships went through the straits of the Boaphprua In November on their way to ports in the Crimea. Their caigOS8 consisted consist-ed mostly of foodstuffs and agricultural agricultur-al Implements. "Our export trade Is far fram attaining attain-ing the normal, not because we lack raw materials. In which Russia abounds, but because our export operations oper-ations can only be established on a basis ba-sis of sound agreements with our neighbors anfl with thi re-1 of Europe." |