The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-09
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

this morning according to an Qttt.
cial statement issued here today.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Cermany's efforts for peace on the
eastern front centered now apparent
ly in an effort to open up frontiers
through which she may secure sup
plies OF food for her hungry people
have progressed so far as the signing
of separate agreement with the Uk.
rainian Rada, according to semi-offi.
cial advices from Berlin This peace
important or otherwise, as events may
show, is the first to be signed by any
Of the belligerents. :
How far the Teuton plan may prove
successful seems to depend upon the
measure of control the Rada has over
the territory of the so-called Ukrain.
ian republic, which embraces rich
grain growing lands. Such control Is
disputed by the Bolsheviki who re-
Gently disowned the Rada's delegates
as bourgoise when they were found
treating secretly with the central pow
ers, and named delegates of their own.
The Germans and Austrians, however,
continued to treat with the Rada's rep
resentatives. Both Bolshiviki and
Rada have been claiming military
successes against each other in the
Ukraine. .r~ -
None too Sure. ~. t='4
Apparently the Germans feel none
too sure that the Rada will triumph
unassisted, however as the sugges.
tion has recently come from German
sources that the Roumanians would
do well to join forces with the Ukrain.
ians against the Bolsheviki. Rouman.
ia, it was pointed out, could obtain
compensation for the loss Of Dobruja,
to the Eulgarians, by taking over Bes-
sarabia territory from the, Russians.
Although the early advices regard.
ing the signing of the agreement said
nothing about the terms, it has been
previously reported that the Ukrain.
ians were offered section of Russian
Poland as an inducement for them to
make peace. -
BoLsHEvIKI OPPOSED.
Copenhagen, FEB. "a peace agree
,ment has been signed by representa-
tives of the central powers and Of the
Ukrainian, a semi-official Berlin tele.
gram announces.
The Bolsheviki government prob.
ably will recognize no peace agree
ment signed by representatives of the
Ukrainian Rada This is the legisla-
tive body set up by the Ukrainians at
the time they declared their independ-
ence of Russia, and has been opposed
by the Bolsheviki as bourgeois. At
tempts to overthrow the Rada and es-
tablish soldiers and workmen's
council as the governing authority in
Ukraine have resulted in fighting dur.
ing the last few weeks each side
claiming decisive military successes.
When the peace negotiations at
Brest-Litovsk were begun the ,Bolshev-
Xxi consented to the admission of
Ukrainian delegates but subsequently
discovered the Ukrainians were carry.
ing on secret negotiations with the
Germans and Austrians. They there
upon repudiate the Ukrainian dele
gates, and sent new delegates to
Erest- -Litovsk. The Germans and Aus.
trians, however, declined to recog-
nize the new delegates.
FRiGH1FUL SLAUGHTER.
London, Feb. 9-According to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen, special correspondent
Of the Berlinske Tiedende who escap-
ed from Helsingfors, sends to his pa.
per a wireless report which was not
allowed to pass the Red Guard censor.
ship, in which he says that the Red
Guards have made frightful slaugh.
ter of great masses of Finnish people
and have been plundering and kill
ing in a most frightful manner.
The theater and large number Of
public buildings in Helsingfors have
been destroyed. The Red Guards.
however, have been unable to control
the people, and anarchy is increasing.
Store houses in Helsingfors which
contained food from Denmark for
starving Films, have been destroyed
hv tho Pod Guards and Russian BO1.