New Britain herald., 1918-03-18
UKRAINE SUPPLY
 OF FOOD A MYTH
Kaiser May Gain No Advantage
 for Months to Come

The Hague, March 1S.-The semi ohIclal Berlin correspondent of the : cologne Gazette telegra phs a warning against exaggerated hopes of food from Ukraine. He says the country Is very unsettled. and it will take a long time to organize transport All the big estates have been wrecked. and all their seed corn pIlagcd. The only people who have stocks are peas ants. and they arc both suspicious of the German soldery and unwilling to sell except in exchange for hard cash of the old czarist regime, since they do not trust the new paper coinage, or for German products which they need, but which it will take some time for Germany to provide them with. The correspondent, therefore, urges great patience and skepticism about exaggerated reports.
 The Vienna Arbeiter Zeitune as- serts that there is no chance of regu- lar supplies for the Austrian towns vet. and that when they are available it may be too late to cover the pres ent crisis
 The Cologne Gazette's message CO., incides with a fresh effort of the Frankfort Gazette to persuade Presi- dent Wilson to agree to discuss peace terms in the small committee sus- gested by Chancellor von Hertling. The paper, which is understood to be Tn close touch with the German chan celery, says that in view of the Ger man successes in the east the En- tente cannot hope to defeat Germany, and it is therefore insane not quickly 10 discuss terms.
 There is little doubt that at heart Wilson shares this view," it goes on.
 'The Entente cannot win the war; hut the terms on which a peace by agreement could be reached today nay be wholly changed by a mili- tary success such as Germany, thanks to her colossal arma n,ents, is capable Of achieving. It is possible that what has occurred in the East has aroused mistrust in Washington, and that it is considered there that the pf ace treaties made in the East are irreconcilable with Wilson's four principles which the chancellor &C., ocpted without reserve.
 we consider that, if only from the viewpoint of sound policy as re- cards the future. the regulation of those districts should not violate the rights and interests of peoples, but we also consider that all these inno- Nations and arrangen ents are by no means permanently concluded. and that they can only be regarded as final after the conclusion of general 1eace."
 Germania. the chief Catholic organ Of Berlin, recently issued a similar anpeal to President Wilson to induce the Allies to discuss peace, and 1'rankfurter Zeitung now adds that the system of trying to arrive at an agreement hy n1cHns Of public speeches takes too long.
 ''It is reported that Wilson will shortly send another message to con- gress,' it continues. This message will certainly again touch upon the peace question, aud thus the ex- "hange of ideas will continue. This p,occss appears to us too long and clumsy. If it proceeds at the pres. ant rate, months will pass before we attain further clarification and a rap~ prochement of Views.''
 Yesterday morning Count Revcnt .uw stated that the announcement of Y indenburg's visit to Berlin would certainly arouse suspicious that the necessary decision" in the west had been abandoned in favor of an at tempt to obtain peace "hy resigna- tiOn.'