Indiana daily times., 1920-11-11
SOVIETS GIVE
WORLD RECORD
TRADE ORDER
Contract to Purchase Billion
Dollars Worth of Mer-
chandise in u. S.
AMERICAN MAKES DEAL
BY LOUISE BRYANT.
Copyright, 1920, by International News
Service

Copyright, 1920, by international News
Service)
MOSCOW, by wireless to Berlin, Nov.
1.-THE soviet government Of Russia
bns contracted to purchase one billion
dollars worth of merchandise in the
United States in 1921 through the syn
dicate headed by Washington D. Van
derlip. a banker of Los Angeles, Cal.
1t was announced here by Mr.. Vanderlip
before his departure for Reval in a spe-
cial train. The American financter said
he was we'll satisfied with the result of
his negotiations with the soviet govern
nlent and this sentiment was echoed by
Russian officials. The commercial order
secured here for fulflment in the United
States is the biggest in the history of
the world.
The correspondent met Mr.. Vanderlip
at the foreign office just after he had
signed the contract for long lease on
a gigantic slice of Siberia and Kan
chatka-a tract as big as an empire. The
banker was smiling and happy over the
success of his deal He gave the Inter
national News Service the following
signed statement:
STATEMENT ISSUED
BY VANDERBILT.
"For the foreign press and the Amer
lean people:
at has been brought TO my attention
that our Secretary of State, Mr.. Balm
bridge Colby, made a statement to the
effect that 1 was in Moscow at the in
stigation of Senator (now President
elect Harding, negotiating for reeogni-
tion of soviet Russia by the United
States. l came to Russia to acquire for
the vanderlip Syndicate on terms Of
sixty years, 100000 square miles of Rus
sian territory rich in oil. coal and fish.
This acquisition gives the United States
control of the oil situation on the Pacific.
I have also obtained an understanding
whereby the Russian government will
purchase IN the United States during
1921 merchandise worth S1,O0O0OO 900, Of
fering in payment gold, platinum, furs,
oil, oil products, manganese, copper,
timber, pulpwood, grain and other raw
materials.
"Great quantities of these supplies are
ready for immediate shipment to Amer
lea. Commodities not needed In the
United States will be distributed through
out European countries. In a few months
the unsettled conditions in the Far East
which have enabled Japan to secure al
most a complete monopoly on trade, viii
be brought back to normal conditions
and goods purchased in America viii
move freely from all Pacific coast ports
over the Chinese Eastern Railway and
the Siberia Railway as well as the Baltic
Sea ports, the Murmansk ports and the
Black Sea ports.
SYNDICATE TO ACT
AS FISCAL AGENT.
''The vanderlip Syndicate proposes to
act as fiscal agent for the Russian soviet
government Immediately upon restoration
of trade traffic and the abandonment Of
the British blockade. The Russian gov
ernment is perfectly capable Of carving
out any trade contracts between it and
citizens Of the United States because II
Is to the interests Of the soviet govern
ment to develop economic relations such
as are stipulated by this contract.
"The Russian government is the old
est in Europe today. It's ministry has
not been changed in upwards Of thres
years, which is not true OF any other
frst-class European power.
"All parts of the United States will
benefit by the restoration of trade rels-
t!ons-from California to Maine, from
Washington to Florida. Factories will
expand and run on full time. Farmers.
merchants and all classes OF labor win
share in the prosperity. If the majority
OF American people viii no longer tolerate
the chaotic conditions now prevailing
in Europe they must seize this great op.
portunity to bring peace and reconstruc-
ton to the world. The keystone of these
conditions is the opening of trade rela-
tions between the United states and the
soviet Russian republic"
LIST OF GOODS SAID
To BE PURCHASED.
The following is a list Of goods which
Vanderlp said is to be purchased in the
United States by the Russian government
through the Vanderlip syndicate
"One hundred ocean-going steamers;
2OO0 river steamers, motor boats and
launches 900 electric locomotives; / 900
airplanes: $500 railway passenger cars;
500 sets Of pumps and accessories; 5000
sets Of telegraph and telephone apparatus;
5000 sets of automatic block systems
for the railways; 1000 cold storage
plants $50 dredges for gold mining;
1000 excavators for new railway con-
struction; 250 dredges for river and har-
Dor improvement; 1000 electric power
house installations; hydraulic machin-
cry; 100000 tons OF steel for tool max
ing; $1,000 weighing scales and meas
ures: $4,000 typewriters; 100000
pools OF coal. 20O0O,O0O PAIRS Of various
kinds Of footwear; 10000 pools OF
hides; 100000 poods OF fax and hemp
products; JGOOOO!O0O tins of condensed
milk; 100000 tins Of meat and other
preserves; 100000 pools of raistns;
100000 pools of copper; 100000 pools
of saltpetre: 100000 pounds of chemical
products; SOO0,0OO pools Of tanning ma
terials; 100000 pools of dyes and dye
ing materials; 5000 railway locomotives;
10000 railway box cars; 2,0OO,OO0 tons OF
steel rails and rail fixtures; 1000 gaso-
line and steam tractors for agricultural
purposes; 100000 plows, cultivators.
sowing machines, binders aEd other mod
ern agricultural instruments; 1900 limo
type machines; 22,0O0 lathes; 800 large
size steam boilers; $50 water turbines;
$50 narrow SuaGe locomotives; 30 genera
tors; $50 gas motors; 1GO9J auto trucks
and carts; $1,000 electric motors and
dynamos: 100000 tools of various
kinds; $4,000 tons of metals: 25OOOO
tons of rubber; tons Of binder twine
25,0C0 tons Of cocoa and coffee; 100 ex-
eavators and 500 steam engines.