The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-17
How The Huns Have Failed to Real
he Their Expectations in That
Fertile Province


Field Marshall Won Eichhorn, Sec
ond plot has been discovered to muir
der all German officers" Popular
hatred of the Germans is inextingu
ishable." at is unsafe to go outside
the big towns except in companies
This from the Ukraine. And OF
late many countries have disappoint
ed Germany. But the Ukraine, which
was Germanys friend, which was 10
give her first wheat and then cor
ridor from Mittel Europa to Mittel
Asien. now bids fair, according to re-
cent dispatches received from WASH
ington, to be the biggest disappoint-
ment of them ALL
OF wheat there were lOO,ooo'ooo
poods-65, 100000 bushels-"in one
small part of the country alone -
And before the end of March every
thing had been arranged for IN
April 5000 900 pools were to be gath
cred and shipped, in May l5,ooo'ooo'
in June 10000, 900. And with first
ambassador Baron Won Mumm there
went to Kief one Field Marshall Gen
eral Won Eichern of name already
terrible in northern Russia SO ina
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 III
the matter of wheat. She needed IL
all for her own people, and the ware
houses and elevators were alread!
empty. Under her snew, communist
constitution, she could not sell it, al
any rate for export. When asked u
barter, she demanded things which
Germany obviously couldn't spare
textiles, agricultural implements rail-
road materials, and the like Ana
when, finally, she did give her wheat
growers permission to take money
thew would take neither Russian ru-
bles nor Austrian kroner-nor even
imperial German marks. They saio
they had full confidence only in Amer
ica and would take American dollars
with that. Field Marshall General
Won Eichhorn himself had to take &C
ton. BY edict he gave notice tha'
Germany would procure what whea'
abe needed by sending out wheat re-
ouisitioning troops" and, under pen
a,tv of forced labor all Ukrainian
nesants and farmers should plant the
greatest possible harvest for 1918
Transforming" Government
By then, too, he had been compelled
IN take action in other ways. Inc
Ukraine was cutting up the estates
of its great mobiles, who alone mao
shown themselves to be Germany 5
Genuine friends. She was suffering
conspiracies to be planned, by Ger
tain Committee for the Salvation OF
1rkraina. Who would have nothing
to say to newly-interpreted clause
in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk whicn
would give Germany an indemnify
"for her military aid in restoring
order" Above all, far from opening
the way to Middle Asia. by refusing 10
co-operate with groups OF good Ger
man workers in the Crimea and the
Caucasus she was closing it. Again
no halfway measures would suffice
The real need, in the words OF vice.
Chancellor Won Payer, was "a trans
formation of Ukrainia's government
And Field Marshal General Won Eich-
horn transformed it.
A Hetman With Nine Votes
We have heard something of one
skoropadsk, the new Hetman OF the
Ukraine. According to German re-
ports $4,000 Ukrainians gathered IN
Kief alone to call upon him to as
sume dictatorship. 1t now appears
that the said Skoropadski was one OF
the Germanophile mobiles above-men-
toned. and gentleman who hau pre
yiously distinguished himself by STAND
ing for the national assembly and re-
ceiying 200 Russian votes and MEN
1rkrainian. But that made little diff