The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 29, 1918, Page 7, Image 7
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR HUNS, j
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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
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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
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Che
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Buy it by the case.
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I tired and thirsty?
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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.'
II The militarists blame the diplomats
11 "Compared with those of the enten
I j te," snarls the Krupp organ, th<
. j Rheiniscbe - Westfalische Zeitung
II "ours have failed completely." "W<
s! are beginning to wonder," adds th<
11 Berliner Post, "if from our treat:
- [ with the) Ukraine we are getting any
1 j thing whatever."
Disappointment could scarcely g<
e deeper than that. Meanwhile evei
e ! as the Ukrainians have confidence ii
i- j American money, it would appear ti
a be wise for us to begin to trust ii
i- the Ukrainians.
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