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= Russia = In the Red Shadow ? ?_.__ i iCr.ntlaufrd f??m p?f? ?n?> ?Ailwsy lines and thrown directly into the railway tenders. The result is that on? must go further and further from the 'ines for wood supplies, and the wood furnished it so damp as hardly to make steam. On* of the chief activities oi the new commercial mtssic:: In Berlin ts ta? purchase of locomotives for the Rus ? :*n railroad?. Something more than -,000 have already b"en ordered in Ger '.any and Sweden. The Rust?an gov.ern mer.t is now ciperitnentiag oa oil burn ?11* engines. How important the demoralised trans? portation system of Russia is In t!:e recent juncture may he judged from I? fact that American relief work In Hotsta Is now be;r.g retarded by the ollaps? of transportation. Trar.sporta ?ien in the Volga district is running KOt better than 15 per cent of normal. iVom the ports to distributing centero 'ransportation is reaching not b?tter -han -6 per cent of expectations. I.ike Ants Crawling On a Billiard Tabu I know nothing g'> lonely as a Russian right of way airees the steppes. For onto reason the Russian horizon is wider than th* horizon of western .'urope. Engine and ears seom lost in the great expanse of snow and plain, rhey seem Ineffectual, almost pathutic, '.ko ant crawling across a billiard able. In ail Russian transportation there is something of this Ineffectiveness. Ex? cellent on the high roads. It practically disappears in the central provinces, ?here gcttfng to market is like crossing the Atlantic for an American. Russian ; ? ranspor*ntton is an index of Russian civilisation, a civilisation only skin ' ?ieep, r.ot reaching the great mass of ' he peaaar.tr. at all. To the peasant modern transportation does not exist, r?e continues to u.m the systems of : transit common, in the days of Tctoi and Cathcr:r.e. A goodly percer ?age of Russian mar- I <et materials ne**r find their way into railroad cars at all. These are ! ransported best in the winter time! over packed road.; or. snow-covered J ?irairic by sledges drawn by horaes. j i 1?re, too. there has been ?i fearful ! wastage of motivo power. It cost:; as j auch ?s :i horse is worth to feed him , or two week.:. As a result 75 per cer.t J of tho horse., have beet: slaughtered, transportation is available only for '. ndlspcn-able freight and at enormous ' -ate?, i^o greut has been the slaughter i of horses that over large areas the ? . artel has come to take his place. The Soviet government has much to ? answer for. but no fair survey of Rus- ? -?ian transportation, can b? made that ' limits itself to the period of Soviet i i ule. Just as the i'&mine must be read i in the light of Russian agriculture, j 'resent transportation must be read ? in the light of the transportation of he past. If we war.t to understand where \ "T?ussia was and is in matters of trans? portation we cannot do better than j compare transportation in Russia with j transportation in America. In 1914 j Russia had 20,000 miles of railroad, the ? united States had 266,000. This meant one-eighth of a mile per capita of pop? ulation for Russia; two miles and a alf per capita of population .for the United States. That was tn peace-time. To-day Ruesian mileage has beer, vastly re? duced. But Russia is under many transportation handicaps that go be-: ?ond matters of r:ii)??ge. Many of I hese are geographical and climatic. V Narrow Coast Line , And a long, Hard Haul Russia has been cut oT from the ommerce and the traffic of the world | ot only by the character of her peo-, pie. She has been cut off as weil by '.he tact that her great hinterland iould not be brought into any con-! act with the world market. It is not alone the lack of transportation that kept the peasant from trading in the vorld market aa does, for instance, the French pea.-ant with the products of, ; his vineyards. K wai the narrow ? coait line and the long, hard haul that [ retarded the creation of transporta i tion agencies and kept tha market ol | central Rusnia a local rather than ar international market. These conditions are intensified bj ; climatic conditions. Atide from poitf j in the Caucasus, which aro onlv of local use, there uro in (ircatcr Rubs?s ? seven ports, Odessa, Novorossisk, He ' val. Riga, Murmansk, Archangel am! Petrograd. Of these ports four -are | in the frost -/.one. l>uring several i months of the year they are cut >fl absolutely or nro available only bj the use o? Ice-breakers. The ports of Riga, Reval, Petrojrrati , and Archangel lio from one thou.sauil to three thousand mile? from tin points they may be destined to serve The market of Russia la a bottle with > two necks, one of which, and th* nios: ' important from the viewpoint of world shipping, is closed for foul ! months or the year. To understand the position that Russia is in we should have to imagine the United State? u be open to world commerce only at New York harbor and at Oalveston ? and that New York harbor wan closed j for a considerable portion of each year ; Five Ports Taken From Russian Sovereignty But we have not yet como to tn? chief disqualifying feature of the port system of Russia from the point ot ! view of present conditions. Of the five ports mentioned above as belong? ing to the northern bottle neck, two now have been removed from Russian sovereignty, Riga is ill the independ? ent state of Latvia; Keval is in the independent state of Esthonia. Like? wise, the porf.H of Hclsingfors. in Fin? land; Libau and Mitau, formerly un? der Russian dominion, are now under soparate dominion. Among the great unsolved problems which wait for solution once the na? tions v~' the world can come t? concur? rence or. Russia is the problem of thr integrity of the Russian domain ami the inviolability of her coast, line anci outlets. On this two schools airead) ?ind themselves in opposition, tin school that would carve ?spheres of in? fluence out of Russia und the schoo that would await developments and maintain Russian integrity. A few weeks ago I was in tiie office of the Minister of Transportation ol the new Polish government in the citj or Warsaw. Before us on the wall was a map of Poland as it was under th? Russian regime. The minister wai pointing out to me five lines of rail ways, running from extreme Boutheas to extreme northeast and converginj on Warsaw. "It -would seem that Warsaw wai well supplied with railroads," T said "Ar, a military stronghold, yes." tin minister answered, and he showed mi that these lines scrvod military pur poses primarily; that they ignored ecu nomic contacte. Then he ran his han? over the great area north und soutl of Warsaw and showed that of norti and south, lines this area had far to> fen-. Of these there was no demand <"o military purposes. And he cxplainei that this was one of the great task before the government of Poland, th creation of lines of communicatio bas?e' on economic and not militar, plans. From Warsaw I went out at differen times in two direction* on the hig roadfi by automobile. I wanted to gc the feel of the contacts between Russi and western Europe. The high road to the northeast toward Riga and th high road directly east toward Brest Litovsk and Moscow run straight as a eagle's flight for scores of miles. Ger orations of laborera and soldiers hav put into these roads the stones ilia have built them high over the sui rounding country. But they terve onl the distant objectives of an empire th;; was ko far away that it had no coi cern for the local needs of the peopb It is only accidentally that these road have an economic use. I have, taken these two pictures Croi Russian Poland because Poland v.-r one of the most densely populated poi tiens of the old empire. What I found there was true elsewhere in Russia, savo that elsewhere there nrc fewer , roads of any kind. The story of the ; Emperor who drew u line with a rule for a route for the Trans-Siberian Rail? way is true to old Russian rolicy. if not literally veracious. The line from ; Moscow to 'Petrograd runs as straight > as an arrow. Before Russia can take its place j among the nations of the world its transportation must be adapted to tho ? economic needs of tho modem world. I In the eighth article of this serien, i which ?rill appear in The Tribune | to-morrow, Mr. Dickinson describes ! the paradox of commerce in Russia, | which lias become merely the pass? ing back and forth of reminders and ; jttnJc. Harding May Favor Soviet Recognition (Continued from n?fl? en?) to information received here, much worse than in the United States. This government, through at leaft | two Cabinet members, has long taker. | the position that nothing would be ac? complished by trade with Russia \'or the reason that. Russia had nothing to offer. Th? soundness of this view has ' hc-eu absolutely demonstrated by tho I experience ?<o far of the British. At the demand of tho r>ntisn manuxac turers and of British labor trade Rela? tions with Russia also were removed, but no trade of any consequence be? tween Russia and either the United States or Great Britain resulted. Now the British have come round to believe that only by credit:, of the moft liberal character being extended to Russia can n restoration of Russian buying be accomplished. Credits, mu- i urally, will not be regarded by the in- ; vesting public as being the- safest and j ftaim.t investment possible, but the I whole idea is utterly impossible without. recognition. How the credits are to be i arranged after that the British do not ! make clear, but they assert that this will come in time. | Ontario Bars Liquor tor j American Within Border Transportation Breach of In? ternational La-H and Court Fines Dealer HAMILTON, Ont., April 8.~Trans? portation of liquor, which war. con signed to au Ameican buyer within the I border, was ruled a breach of interna- j tional law to-day by Magistrate Jelfa, i who cited a slave-running case of 1P0? ! as precedent. He held that becaus? Ontario and the United States botii had j laws prohibiting importation and salo ; of liquor, Herbert G. Guess, of Bridge- i burg, had committed an act likely to endanger the peace between the coun-' tries when ho arranged to ship sixty cases of liquor to Bridgeburg ?or an American buyer. The Amodie slave case was the bas!? for the verdict. In that case an Amor- I ican Blave-runner, shipping slaves to \ tho United States, was caught on the high seas by the British. English I courts ruled that because both coun tries had laws against. Klare importa? tion, the man was guilty of breaking international laws. Magistrate Jeifs lined Guc3? ?;50?. ??-???-*_-? Viscount Lascelles and Bride End Honeymoon; Start Home PARIS, Apri'l S ( By The Associated Press.)- -Princess Mary and her hus band, Viscount Lasceilcs, left Paris at noon for London, their honeymoon trip i on the Continent having been complet? ed by their stay of the last few day? ; in tile French capital. 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One or two of each style 4950 [Genoa Envoys, Except French, For Arms Cut (Continue from pagi ?nil shevik delegation got in from Berlin. Incidentally, tbe Russians continuo to bo (ruarded with as much seriousness as tlio Italians show when their own King is escorted. Tlie Genoa authorities evidently aro determined that there shall be no dis? orders while the conference is on. In every block there are a dozen Italian j national troops or special guards, while around the headquarters of the various delegations are whole companies of soldiers. After the mufti of England and France, this show of force makes onn wonder whether the war is ?till on, but the Itnlians explain that the military hw\ been concentrated here : from all parte of the country especially for the conference. - Seek to Avoid Politics i GENOA, April 8 (By The Associated j PrrflfO. -How to prevent th? forthcom- j ing economic conference from losing j its proclaimed economic principle and ! from falling into a purely political J j conclave, precarious in its possibilities, j j and admittedly a supreme danger, is ! preoccupying tho chief delegutes :;?; ! they gather for the opening sessions. i This, it in believed, i.i the rock on j which the conference may succeed or ? ? split. , Publicists, assembled here from I ? many countries to observe the proceed I i tigs, openly insist that the conference j will fundamentally and inevitably be ! ! of a political nature, nnd not economic. pointing us proof to the profound po? litical jealousies now permeating Eu rope and al?o to the national and r;i cial ambitions and problems due to \ divid'ng the continent into new and , smaller states. Determined to sot its house in order British to Ask Genoa For Unrestricted Trade LONDON. April 8 (By The Associated Presa).?An important appeal to the Genoa conference, containing the ?ignttures of about eight hundred men repre? senting the financial, ?hipping j and industria! sphere? of the j United Kingdom, will be dis 1 patched on Monday. It urges the conference not merely to recom? mend removal of all post-war re? strictions on trade but to agree upon .such further measures as ! will insure the progressive libera? ? tion of trade and commerce throughout thi: woi'ld. ; i??-?-,_ ! if possible without the assistance of I the United States, the conference iii i organising for action in the belief that, ' the United States must eventually rati I fy its main achievements, if they are to prove durable, and the influence Of the American Republic, even If un? voiced at Genoa, undoubtedly obtains a ?troii?; psychological force. Conflicting National Interests On the eve of this great, conference, including friends ar, well as foes of yesterday and representatives of the neutral nations, there exist sorious conflicting national interests, hut the hope prevail:) in all circlea that the sheer necessity of common action in the interest of all will induce sacri? fices en the part of all, bo an to permit {]\f building up of Europe and the development of ils economic machin? ery, Everybody seems to i-calino that the economic restoration of Russia is ob? ligatory to the salvation of Europe. England wants markets there, France pecks to recover her debts, Italy im- I peratively needs Russian wheat, which ? Bhe could probably purchase many times cheaper than she docs from America. Despite the unemployment In Eng? land and the famine in Russia it is estimated that the great middle classes of F'Juropr aro the grentest sufferers by the present unfavorable economic con ditlonn, with the strictest economy nec? essary, whilo grave anxiety prevails ! among all classes in all countries. Various remedies are suggested by offi? cial and unofficial ?pokesmen here, some, idealists oven demanding tho cre? ation of a European conf?d?ration sim? ilar to the Untied States, believing that some man will soon emerge to show the way to save Europe from future schisms. The primary feature of this would be the. abolition of vast armies. Latin Alliance Advocated Others preached the wisdom of a Latin alliance morally, if not actually, backed by the South American coun? tries?to preserve Latin instructions, customs and culture In a movement for Anglo-Saxon domination antici I pated by the Latin people. Advices from Tokio attribute to I Japan the ambition to strengthen and i control by nil legitimate means the ! economic life of Siberia, the mineral ! resources of which are considered in? exhaustible, Japan believing that one | I result, of the Washington conference j ] would be a disposition to favor her economic growth in the Far East. I Crowd Silent as Gorman Envoys Depart for Genoa \ ? BERLIN, April 8 (By The Associated ? Press). ?A silent crowd watched the i departure from the Anhalt station to i day of tho statesmen who will rcpre I sent Germany at the Genoa conference. 1 Much impressed, the crowd gazed at I the notice marking the train "Genoa i Special,'' but there were no demonstra | tfons, Among those who had gathered on : | the platform to bid them farewell was i the Italian Ambassador, with whom | ? Dr. Walter Rathenau, the Foreign Min- j ister, who headed the delegation, had a ? long conversation. Dr. Rathenau,' Robert Schmidt, Min- ? ister of Economics, and Andreas ! 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