BUSINESS IN
SIBERIA IS IN
RAD_STATI
OMSK, Siberia, Feb. 11 (Correi
pondence of the Associated Press ).
Disinclination of the peasant and th
huntsman to part with the producl
of his land or his hunt because h
cannot buy needed manufacture
articles with the money he woul
obtain therefor, is one of the chi*
causes of the commercial stagnatio
in Russia today. Clothing, boot*
socks, tools, machinery, necessitie
for his household he fain woul
acquire, but even a pile of rubles wil
not bring them to his door. They d
not exist in Siberia. So the peasan
keepb his wheat and other cereal
and the hunter stores the furs an
skins. Money has lost its value heri
Fluctuation of the Russian rubl*
and the difficulty and cost encoum
ered by the tradesman in getting hi
goods to market, have reduced con
merce to a minimum. The merchan
will not run the risks involved witl
out expecting big profits and this ha
caused manufactured commodities t
soar in price.
Another important factor is feeing
Several merchants who have beei
doing business in Russia informei
the Associated Press corresponden
that the habit of tipping, (bribin
they called it) was increasing. On
foreign merchant who sends goods t
Omsk said:
“When I forward a carload of mei
ehandise from Harbin or Vladivosto
1 don’t know in the first plac*
whether it will ever arrive with th
railroad conditions as they are.
must send a representative with th'
car to pay out money on the way ti
officials and employes. Otherwise m;
car will be sidetracked. That is thi
great evil of Russia today. Busines
has developed into speculation.”
Before the war Siberian wheat wa
worth about 10 cents per eigh
pounds; today it is sold for th'
normal equivalent of about $4. Tha
shows how prices have jumped.
All authorities agreed that th*
arrival of manufactured articles ii
Siberia and central Russia is an ui
gent necessity. They have great ex
pectations of the American war tracU
hoard in this respect and point oul
fhat the well-organized Siberian
co-operative associations could easil)
attend to the distribution.
The things imperative for the
1 salvation and reorganization of Russia
I are placed in this orc^er: First, peace
4 and order; second, efficient operation
of (he railroads under the direction
of John F. Stevens, the American
i- expert; third, the economic rehabili
- tation of the country by the concerted
e help of the powers. These things at
s tained, the impression genrally pre
e vails that Russia would be one of the
d first great nations to recover from
i the war on account of her great and,
f as yet, entirely undeveloped resources.
■ BOLSHEVIK TROOPS
; ARE PAID BY HOUR
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1 LONDON, April 16 (by Associated
8 Press).—Many troops of the Red
1 army in eastern Russia have adopted
'■ trade union methods in dealing with
’ | their Bolshevik superiors. They
demand fixed pay for each hour of
3 fighting and this, according to official
reports to the British government, at
*■ times amounts to 20 rubles an hour.
‘ The Red army in that territory is
3 composed of Germans, Finns, Chinese,
5 Poles and recruits from the semi
civilized provinces of eastern Russia.
Many of the officers are Germans.
1 Others are Russians pressed into
1 service. Every order given by an
t officer is reported to the commissary
? and any mistake is punishable by
3 death.
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AERIAL BATTLESHIPS I
TO BE NEXT INNOVATION!
LONDON, April 16 (by Associated
Press).—“Aerial battleships” would
have been developed if the war con
tinued another year, declares Lord
Weir, the British minister of air
forces. Just before the armistice,
aviators were successfully using guns
which fired shells instead of bullets.
Lord Weir said that aerial photo
graphy had been so developed that ac
curate photographs of the earth were
token from an altitude of four miles.
In all, six million such pictures had
been prepared by the Royal Air
Forces. The speed of fighting air
planes had been increased from 90 to
141 miles an hour and the engine
power from 80 to 300 horespower.
HISTORIC EPISTLE FOR
MUSEUM IN SCOTLAND
/ .
LONDON, March 18 (by mail).—
The national art collection fund has
loaned to the Royal Scottish museum
in Edinburgh, pending its final dis
position, the last letter of Mary,
Queen of Scots, addressed to her
brother-in-law, Henry III of France,
and written the night before her
execution.
This letter was acquired from the
Morrison collection by a number of
neisons for presentation to the Scot
tish people. It is in a perfect state
of preservation, and a beautiful speci
men of caligraphy.
In the letter, Queen Mary told King
Henry that having passed nearly
twenty years in the captivity of
Queen Elizabeth, she had at last been
condemned to death and had been
ordered to be executed as a criminal
at 8 o’clock the following morning.
She commended her son to Henry’s
care. She signed the letter “at two
hours before midnight. Your most
loving and very good sister.”
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