Oct. 31.
Recent telegrams have contained details of activities in many countries directed towards the reopening of trade with Russia. The most conspicuous was the agreement reported from Berlin last week for the establishment of a Russo-German Trading Company with a capital of 300,000 gold roubles, under which the German consortium of Otto Wolff will grant the Company a credit of 7,500,000 gold roubles and.a further 5,000,000 gold roubles to the Russian Government—a piece of news which may be kept in mind in contrast with Germany's protestations that she cannot pay her debts to the Allies. Still more interesting—for the above agreement is a natural sequel of the Russo-German Treaty announced during the Genoa Conference—is the news that a number of leading French business men believe it possible to resume trade with Russia. M.
Herriot we are told, has lately visited Russia and "'expresses the conviction that an evolution is taking place in Moscow, the first result of which will enable European states to resume relations with the Soviets.'' Here, however, the French Government's policy is likely to prove 3 diffi-
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