The Moscow delegation, headed by the notorious Bolshevik, Litvinoff, arrived
at The Hague on Monday. Litvinoff announced that he must have credits, goods or cash, whether from Governments or private persons. He asserted that the Russian harvest promised well and that Russia would have a surplus of corn to export. On Tuesday he met the European experts and asked for a preliminary guarantee that credits would be accorded to him. The experts retorted by demanding information as to the Bolshevik plans for restoring Russian trade and industry. Litvinoff, after some blustering, agreed to supply the information. Meanwhile, it is stated by the Times correspondent at Berlin that the German trade delegation lately in Russia found the economic conditions to be so bad that it despaired of doing anything while the Bolsheviks remained in power.
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