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DISAPPOINTMENT FOR HUNS, j | . Have Failed to Realize Their Rosy Expectations in Ukrainia. "Following the assassination of, Field Marshal von Eichhorn, a seconed plot has been discovered to murder all German officers." . . . j "Popular hatred of the Germans is j inextinguishable." . . . "It is unsafe! to go outside the big towns except j in companies." This from the Ukraine. And of late many counties has disappointed Germany. But the Ukraine, which was Germany's friend, which was to give her first wheat and then a corridor from Mittel Europa to Mittel Asien, now bids fair, according to recent dispatches received from Washington to be the biggest disappointment of them all. Of wheat there were 100,000,000 poods?65,000,000 bushels ? "in one small part of the country alone." And before the end of March everything had been arranged for. In April 6,000,000 poods were to be gathered and shipped, in May 15,000,000, in June 20,000,000. And with first embassador Baron von Mumm there went to Kief one Field Marshal von Eichhorn of a name already terrible in northern Russia so that the first steps towards Mittel Asien could be taken simultaneously. Wanted, American Dollars. But from the first, as it now appears the Ukraine made objections even in the matter of wheat. She needed it all for her own people, and the warehouses and elevators were already empty, unaer uer uc w , tuiumunist constitution, she could not sell it, at any rate for export. When asked to barter, she demanded things which Germany obviously couldn't spare: textiles, agricultural implements, railroad materials, and the like. And when finally, she did give her wheat growers permission to take money, they would take neither Russian rubles nor Austrian kroner ?not even imperial German marks. They said they had full confidence oniy in America, and - would take American dollars. With that, Field Marshal General von Eichhorn himself had to take action. By edict he gave notice that Germany would procure what wheat she needed by sending out "wheat requisitioning troops," and under penalty of forced labor, all Ukrainian peasants and farmers should plant the greatest t possible harvest for 1918. By then, too, he had been compelled to take action in other ways. The Ukraine was cutting up the estates o 1 its great nobles, who alone had shown themselves to be Germany's genuine friends. She was suffering conspiracies to be planned Dy a certain committee for the salvation ol Ukraine. She could have nothing tc say to a newly interpreted clause ir the treaty of Brest-Litovsk whict / would give Germany an indemnity "for her military and restoring or der." Above all, far from opening the way to Middle Asia, by refusing ta cooperate with groups of gooc German workers in the Crimea an( the Caucasus she was closing it Again, no half-way measures woul< suffice. The real need, in the word: of Vice Chancellor von Payer, was "i transformation of Ukrainia's govern ment." And Field Marshal Genera von Eichhorn transformed it. We have heard something of on Skoropadski, the new Hetman of th * Ukraine. According to German re ports 75,000 Ukrainians gathered ii Kief alone to call upon hirq to as ??-aMMT^-y-i.grwrrmr? ttur-ju I There's nothi: 8 refreshing Che I "In a bottle9 Buy it by the case. H your refrigerator? I tired and thirsty? I arrive?a delightfx B to serve and bring j I REF aj With n< 4 sume a dictatorship. It now appears j that the said Skoropadski was one of j the Germanophile nobles above men-; tioned and a gentleman who had i previously distinguished himself by j standing for the national assembly j and receiving 200 Russian votes and j nine Ukrainian. But that made little, difference. He had declared himself I to be in full accord with Germany j even in the matter of the indemnity, j And, seizing every member of the: former government who didn't flee 1 1 Oor. 1 in time, von iuicnnom mauo , many's figure head. Nothing now j could stand in her way. She had[ I the Ukraine by the throat, and had' only to collect. j As a matter of fact she had already j J touched off her own conflagration, j I through her "wheat requisitioning j troops." Wherever they went a peas-, j antry believed to be completely cow-j t ed began to rise at once. What wheat I was in the bin they hid in pits; whaU was in the rick they burned. Where j they couldn't get their sheep and | cattle away, they killed them. And taking to the woods, even as if it had j been the battle line, they gave themselves to the business of fighting Gerj mans again. I In one way it was a peasants' war. j In others it was unique. For instead of scythes and pitchforks, the peasj ants were armed with perfectly good i rifles. They have been attacking i troop trains and blowing up bridges. | For heavy fighting, as many as 70,i 000 have acted together. And lately ) they have been joined by practically ; all Ukriania's railroad workers. They are supposed to be striking. But as a strike it, too, is unique. I What the strikers demand is not l higher pay and shorter hours but the convoking of a constitutent assembly. ! Meanwhile along with the peasants, j they are enforcing their demands ; with rifles and hand grenades, even ( with artillery. "Guerilla warfare is j constant," reported Hoeglund, the ! Swedish socialist, a few days before | Field Marshal von Eichhorn was asi sassinated. And by now, according i to a Dutch observer, "it is unsafe of | Kief .... Conflicts occur daily, while , occasionally battles take place lasting several days. The Germans are liv1; ing in a little hades." j Bi/t in the matter of this Ukraine | disappointment, it is the Germans ;! themselves who bear the best witness. ii-Of these 100,000,000 poods of 11 wheat, how much did they really ob;:tain? Less than 500,000. 'And,' I says the semi-official Cologne Gazette, "we should like our eternal advisers ' j to tell us howr they would have ob' i it." The government will per I mit no more civilian Germans to go > to Ukrainia "because those now there : j desire only to get back again." Far j from ^oing on to Mittel Asien, there E i have been troubles even with Aus> | tria. The diplomats sourly blame t i the von Eihhorns. "The same powi! er?the German military powers?' r j says deputy Arzberger, "which shat - tered Russia is now doing everything 51 possible to make her a unit again.' 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