Bisbee daily review., 1921-07-19
GIGANTIC ORDERS CLAIMED BY
 BOI ISHFVIK AGENTS IN EUROPE
 ARE GENERALLY IMAGINATIVE

BERLIN July 1S-Russian trace |. has become sort of will-o'-the-wisp to European newspaper men and Amer ican newspaper correspondents in the European capitals. Scarcely a day passes that some Bolshevist agent does not announce a gigantic contract | entered into by the Russian Govern ! ment with some great concern, usual | ly a German or English corporation. {
 If all the locomotives and cars which | Russia has been reported to have con- i tracted for in the last year were Gs- livered the former empire would re- quire additional trackase to accommo- i date them.
 At one time an announcement was made that 10000 lootFldives were contracted fer in Germany alone When the report was run to the ground it was learned that an actual deposit had been made on contract for 100 locomotives, and it cannot 3e learned that any of these have been delivered as yet.
 Bolshevist agents also announced a contract for 10000 tractors had been made with an American automobile factory. The owner of this factory advised the Soviet agents that GeiIv- erys of the tractors would begin as soon as Bolshevist agents had Soviet gold turned into Swedish coin and deposited in Stockholm bank. Tne gold was not forthcoming. The tract ors were not shipped, but the Soviet
 propagandists failed to hearId thab fact as widely as they did the signing of the contract.
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 One American concern which ship ped 30 tractors to Reval without hay ing any deposit on them still mas the tractors in stCra:le in Esthonia and there is no indication shat the Soviet
 officials will fulfil their agreement to take them.
 Since the commercial agreements
 were framed by the Bolshevik1 w.;n
 Germany and Great Britian there has been a noticeable cooling of the Bol- shevist foreign representatives toward America For the moment they pre- tend to baextremely. indifferent as to whether they establish closer IraGe
 relations with America. But this is 1 apparently not giving any uneasIness
 to Americans who have actually been in contact with Bolshevist agents and
 have tried to close contracts on q strictly business basis.
 A Danish exporter and importer
 who Is representing many American | firms in their efforts to set actual
 contracts with Soviet government, l backed by substantial cash advances,
 told the correspondent: 'I am done chasing after this threatened Bolshe-
 vist business. There have been some contracts closed. I know few men
 who have sold the Bolshevist stuff
 which they actually had to have I | know men who have made money
 out of their business. But I know q lot more who have signed up wonder
 ful paper contracts that never came
 to anything. That has been my ex- perience. I have been able to, get
 wonderful promises, but I couldn't get any gold, and didn't want lot ! of stuff stacked up in storage at Rev al as many men have who have sent 1 shipments into the Baltic without ad- vance payments sufficient to insure
 the delivery and final payment. Germans SkepticaI German business men are apparently not enthusiastic about Russia busi-
 ness on the terms which the Bolshe- vist agents offer, and there is no dis position to execute wholesale con- tracts without something more defi- l nite in the way of payment than Sov- i jet signatures. German papers con-
 tinue to be skeptical about the pos ! sibility of trade with Soviet Russia, ! especially since the Soviet govern ment has refused to grant admission | to many German business represenz
 tatives who have sought to make an investigation of economic conditions | there.
 Recently number of German fur dealers and leather merchants asked permission to visit Russia, but were ! denied vices. This caused much com
 ment in comercial circles. The Soviet governent said it would admit these
 men if the government desired to send them as official trade experts, but
 would not allow them to enter as rep
 resentatives of commercial concerns.
 Small shipments of sample hides and