Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-25
.UKRA|N|A BITTERLY
D|SAPP0|NTS HUNS
Following Assassination of Field
Marshal Won Eichhorn, Second &;
Plot Has Been Discovered.
MAY MURDER ALL GERMANS
Popular Hatred of Teutons Is In-
extinguishable-OHer to Sell q
Kaiser Wheat for U. S. Coin.

WASHINGTON, August z4-Fo2lcNtS 81
ing the assassination OF Field Marpha1s
Won Eichhorn. second plot has been
discovered to murder all German ST.
fcers." Popular hatred of the
Germans is inextinguishable." EFT
is unsafe to go outside the big towns
ercept in companies" -
This from the Ukraine. And OF Iat6
many countries have disappointed GerS
many. But the Ukraine, which WaS
Germany's friend, which was to give
her first wheat and then a corridors
from Mitteleuropa to Mittelasien.
now bids fair according to recent dis
patches received from Washington, to
be the biggest dsappotntme of thorn
all.
or wheat there were 100, ooo, ooS
poods-65, o0o,0 600 bushels-"in one small i
part of the country alone" And bar
fore the end Of March everything had 4
been arranged for. In April 6oeo, ooo
pools were to be gathered and shipped.
In May 15,ooo,ooo, in Juno 10000, ooo.s;
And with first ambassador Baron vons
Mumm there went to Kiev one Field i
Marshal General Won Eichhorn of a name
already terrible in Northern Russia
so that the first steps toward MittelsA
asien could be taken simultaneously.ss,4
DEMANDED AMERICAN DOLLARS 7tS
IN EXCHANGE FOR WHEAT
But from the first, as It now appears. 4
the Ukraine made objections even Ia
the matter OF wheat. She needed it all
for her own people, and the warehousea
and elevators were already empty.
Under her new, communist constitution.
she could not sell 1t, at any rate for
export. When asked to barter, She
demanded things which Germany OBJ.
viously couldn't spare: textiles, agrtsE
cultural implements, railroad materially
and the like And when, finally, shAE
did give her wheatgrowers permissionh
to take money, they would take neitherS
Russian rubles nor Austrian kroner=-8
nor even imperial German marks They
said they had full confidence only Ia
America, and would take Americana
dollars With that. Field Marshn1s
General Won Eichhorn himself had IN
take action. BY edict he gave notiSO
that Germany would procure what
wheat she needed by sending out
wheat requistioninE troops: ana
under penalty OF forced labor, all JJk-a
rainfan peasants and farmers will plainly
the greatest possible harvest for 1919
BY then. too. he had been compelledS
to take action in other ways. The
Ukraine was cutting up the estates OF
Its great mobiles, who alone had shown
themselves to BIO Germany's senuinsS
friends. She was suffering conspiracieaE
to be planned, by certain committeoS
for the salvation OF Ukrairia. She
would have nothing to say to a newly
interpreted clause in the treaty Of
Brest Litovsk, which would give Gerrs
many an indemnity for her military
aid in restoring order" Above all, far.
from opening the way to Middle Asia,-
by refusing to cooperate with EroupoS
of good German workers in the CrimeSc
and the Caucasus she was closing ftssSS
Again. no halfway measures would
suffice. The real need. In the Words
Of Vice Chancellor Won Payer. was Ca
transformation OF Ukrainta's governs
mont" And Field Marshal Generals
Won Eichhorn transformed 1T sss
GERNIANoPHILE HETMAN ~;
WITH ONLY NINE VOTES
We have heard something of one
Skoropadski the new Hetman of the
Ukraine. According to German reports
$4,000 Ukrainians gathered In KEY
alone to call upon him to assume q.
dictatorship. 1t now appears that the
said Skoropadski was one OF the Ger
manophile mobiles aforementioned and
a gentleman who had previously dis.S
tinguished himself by standing for the
national assembly and receiving zoe
Russian votes and nine Ukrainian. But
that made little difference. He had
declared himself to be in full accord
with Germany even in the matter OF.
the indemnity. And, Selling every
member of the former government who
Il "a 40 ma a
him Germany's figurchead. Nothing
now could stand in her way. She
had the Ukraine by the throat, and had
only to collect. ~
AS a matter Of fact she had already
touched off her own conhagration.;
through her wheat reQuisitioninEe
troops" Wherever they went a peas.
antry believed to be completely cowedy (
began to rise at once. What wheat
was in the bin they hid in pits; what
was in the rick they burned. Where
they couldn't get their sheep and cat-
tie away. they killed them. And taxi
ing to tho woods, even as IL 1t had
been the battle line, they gave them-
selves TO the business Of fighting Ger.k
many again. H
In one way 1t was a peasants war.
In others 1t was unique. For instead
Of scythes and pitchforks, the peasants
were armed with perfectly good service
rifles. They have been attacking troop
trains and blowing up bridges. For
heavy fighting. as many as 10000 have
acted together. And lately they haysss
been Joined by practically all Ukrain- {
las railroad workers.
They are supposed to be striking
But as strike. it. too. Is union. What
the strikers demand = not higher pay
and shorter hours, but the restoration
of the Constitution and the convokinGs
of a constituent assembly. MEANWHILE
along with the peasants, they are enc.
forcing their demands with rifles and
hand grenades, even with artillery
Guerilla warfare is constant" report.