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Show RUSS CONCESSIONS EAGERLY SOUGHT fEy Universal Service.) I MOSCOW, July 2'j Russia is the mew Eldorado and Moscow Is Its fron jdoor. Thousands of treasure seekers from every e.ountry ln tho world are Bes I n the doorstep. They haunt the h. -tels and crowd the streets. All are here on tho same quest the frantli Ihnnt for concessions Concessions In oil. concessions In i timber, concessions In flax, concessions Iln platinum All the immense natural resources of Russia nave bei n nationalized na-tionalized They are In the gift of th" government, and the government is I said to be willing to supplj them to anybody who will buy them There was a time when concessions could be obtained in Russia Many ! were offered and fewer taken Thosi which were taken have ln most cases proved Impossible to exercise I p-tirnlets p-tirnlets am hoping for a more stable Russia, and that Is why the rush Is on to capitalize the experts settlement. Moscow Is flooded with Americans There are man - Germans, fewer Englishmen Eng-lishmen and a few Canaaians Whether oi not they realise the fortunes th have come to seek, the- nre certainty spending them. I: is true ihe expenditures expendi-tures are only in Russian roubles, and ono can be the architect of a fortune ln Russian roubles as well as .if i city composed of castles In Spain. Wnat are 100,000 rouOlos to 8 concession con-cession hunter who hopes to realize $1,000 000' one million dollars . -preseed in roubles Is well, put down one nnd add the noughts yourself |