Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-22
|RuSSIA'S ABILITY
 TO SUPPLY OTHERS
 IS 0VERESTIMATED
Peace Must First Be Re-
 stored, Says Former N I)unsa Member.

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 tsanstantinople, Aug. 21-- Russia 5 lsl \. '; ,s.,, A ~, export raw materials III X tto rcar future has been great.y Aoverestim,ated by foreign conhtties ,., ,' ra , the opinion of Colonel $. Eng'ena. formerly a member of the nuss.aa ;a nnma and a student of econoni.S cara;t;ons in Russia before ana ai- ea- +ha revolution. In talk wi.n T,,a Associated Press correspon- Ssnt he said that foreigners sem to fail to realize the collapse or .ns Russian transportation systems, M s: dnced manpower and rundown cono'- t;on of the Russian farm lands.
 sThia comment was evoked Dy re rrta of the negotiations of Russian economic agents with Premier Lloyu f..nrre in Londan and the announce ment that the United States nao ny. N prohibitions upon American 'iaus with Soviet Russia. -
 Colonel Englehard is con1ioen' 4hat Russia will again play an lm- portant role in European markers hnt. he said, sthe revival of Rus Eian trade will not c one until tnere < .hall be established normal state of life when men shall renounce a.- tempts of establishing immediateiy the naradise of communism.
 aIt should be borne in mind tnat rnropean Russia has been greatly sreduced in sixe," said Colonel Engle- shard. srormerly it had over o,UUV', 0(,(l souare kilometers of land and 167,0Oo 900 inhabitants. Poland, FinhKd, | great part of the Causa- sus md several Baltic provinces, with nitynt 1x5O,OOO square kilometers o1 aboult 1.260,O0O square kilcmters of aand have been detached themselves. Tke xreater part of these detached tarritories ordinarily had notable A surplus ofgrain and other farm pro ducts which constituted the major part ofs Russia's exports. Y
 ssIn 1913, the last year when con ditions were normal in Russia, ex- .rorts were valued saat 1,b00, DOC, ,006 sold rubles, or $750. .U00, 900. The Sreatest. single item in the export list Was u,i rrain. The total grain exports { as|svere l2,870, ,0O0 tons, valued at $S26,- s DO, 900. European Russia used to lihrvest 5s,600,0O0 tons of grain an nually. With its reduced area, with fhe breaking up of the big esstates, leck of machinery and run wrought bv continuous war in many of the most fertile areas it may be affirm ed the grain harvest of the soviet republic win scarcely reach 31,5O0,- 900 tons annually. One cannot count <. on any considerable exportation of $ krain from soviet Russia in the im- E diate future. So far as Siberia md the provinces in Central Asia axe concerned they used to produce 300 pounds of grain for each inhab- itant. The civil war must have re- {luSed the normal very considerably and it is doubtful whether any con < SSiderable quantity of grain can be expcrted from Siberia"
 Colonel Ehglehard says livestock oE m sorts has been reduced so ereAtly by the war that it is impos- nible to consider the exportation of
 meat or live animals. The civil Z War in the Don and Kuban wiped < ont the sheep there and make tha <. extensixe expcrtation of wool impos- z sible. The sugar industry is so dis organixed and fuel so scarce he does s not believe soviet Russia will be able to supply it's local market for many years.
 Flax is the one farm product which Colonel Englehard believes soviet Russia will be able to export in large duantities immediately
 is the greatest hope of the SO s xiet government, in the opinion of Colonsd Enelehard. Large quanti-i ties of oil still are stored and pro- dneed in the Baker fields and it is the product which all the world is seelking. Fighting has interrupted the Kaku- Batum pipeline repeated ly during the last few months, but Georgia and the bolsheviki have now. xeaehed an agreement and the pros pects are better for oil sales in Ba- tnm. The Grozny oil field, which is entirely dependent upon the Viadiya- kas railway for transportation is also in the hands of the bolsheviki, who have control of the railway and can readily transfer the product to Baku if rolling stock is available.
 Bnt up to the present time the bolshevik fegime has only diminish { ed the production of oil," said Col onei Englehard. 1t seems certain that the naturalization of enter prises everywhere by the Commun- ists wil work the same havoc in the oii fields that it has in Russian in- dustries as whole"
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