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Show BUSS AMBASSADOR DECIDES TO RETIRE I WASHINGTON, June 5. Bond Kakhmetoff. whose status as Russian Rus-sian ambassador here has been a subject sub-ject of controversy since the KsrenSfcy government which appointed han collapsed col-lapsed five years ago. has been no-Ltfled no-Ltfled 1 the stato department thac his credentials 00 longer will be 1 ! -' ognlzed by the United States after 1 Juno r,o. , The. department acted aft.r Mr. I Bakhmeteff himself, taking notice of! sedate criticisms of his lontlnucd! pn-sein-e h.-re. had offered to retire, should the Washington government' desire It. The work of flojuidating property claims growing oil' of th war. the ambassador said, had beer his chief function in recent months rJ and now about completed I |