Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-08-21
RUsS|A's ABILITY
TOExPORT GOODS
BEEN OvEREsT|MATED

coNSTANTINOPLE. July IS n'y
Main -Rusfia's ability a. export IA"
materials M the near future has been
greatly nvcresiimntcd by foreign cnuu'
tries In the opinion Of Colonel u. In
giehard. formerly a member 81 the
Russian Duma and student ~ eco.
nOnic conditions In Russia before ana
after the revolution In q talk win
The Associated Press correspondent he
said that foreigners seem to tah "
realize the collapse Of the Russian
TRANSPORTATION systems. reduced man
power and rundown condition ~ the
Russian farm lands,
This comment was evoked by reports
~ the negotiations ~ Russian econon''
ic agents with Premier Lloyd George
In London and the announcement that
the United States has lifted prohibi
lions upon American trade with Soviet
Russia.
coloel Engiehard II confident that
Russia will again play an important
ruie IN European markets but. he said.
The revival at Russian trade Will not
come until there shall be established
a normal state OF life when men shall
runoance attempts Of establishing i'm
usediately the paradise Of communism.
III should be borne In mind that
European Russia has been greatly re-
duced In size said Colonel Englehard.
Formerly IL had over 100000 square
kilolneters Of land and l51 100000 In
Inhabitants. Poland. Finland. a great
part OF the Caucasus and several Battle
pgovsnces. with about u. 00e. 900 inhab.
itanfs and about $50 600 square kilo.
meters og land have detached them
selves. The greater part Of these de-
tached territories ordinarily had no
table surplus IL grain and other farm
products which constituted the major
part Of Russia's exports.
In 1919, the last year when condi
tons were normal IN Russlo, exports
were valued al .soO. VO0. 900 gold rub
les. az $3.50, 900. 900. The greatest sin
gle Item In the export list was grain
The total grain exports were is.sIo, 0ot
tons. valued nj sJ95. 900 O0o European
Russian used % harvest IS 10000 tons
of grain annually. with it, reduced
AREA. with the breaking up OF big 80
tsitss lack II machinery and ruin
wrought by continuous wal In many
IL It's most fertile AREAS II may be al.
firIned the grain harvest ~ the soviet
renublic will scarcely reach 81 500 900
tons annually. One cannot count on
any considerable expectation IT grain
from soviet Russia IN the immediate
failure. ~ far Siberia and ths pro.
vinces In Central Asia are concerned
they used 20 produce 100 pounds ~
grain for each inhabiiani. The civil
war must have reduced the normal
very considerably and II " doubtful
whether any considerable quantity II
grain can BE- exported from Siberia.
Colonel Englehard says livestock oi
all sorts has bsrn reduced NJ greatly
by the war that Il In impossible Ia cun
slider the expectation ~ meat or live
aninals. The civil war In the Dun an
kuban wpcd out the sheep there and
make the extensive expectation &C won
impossible. The sugar Industry II {
disorganixed and fuel ~ scarce h. does
not believe soviet Russia will be abs
20 supply i,s local market for many
years
Pax IL the one farm porduci which
colun-l Engl-hand believes soviet Illus
ria viii lie all. Co export In large quaa
titks Immediately.
Cal IN the greatest hope 81 the soyie
government, in the opinion of Cnlone
Engirhard Large quantities of -,
still are stored and produced In tn
Baker fields and Il IN the product whic'
ell the world II seeking. Fighting ha'
interrupted the Baku. Batum PIP, I'm
repeatedly during the last few months
but Georgia and the Bolsheyiki hayl
now rraehed an agreement and ~
prospects are better for o.l scies II
batum. The Gruzny oil field. which /,
entirely DEPENDENT upon the NladlSEy
a. railway fT transpUriation u ais
IN the hands ~ the Hnlsheylki Nh
have contrtl Of the railway and a..
readily TRANSFER the product q Baku Z
rolling stick n available
But up 10 the present time tn Bn
rlsyiki regime has only diminished ~
Production uf OIL" said Coluns Engis
hard. 1t seems certain that the na
tiOnalixation " enterprises cyerywher
BY the ocmmuni q will weik the sani
havoc IN the oil fields that u has i
Russian Industries az whole"