South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-02-17
MASS TROOPS IN UKRAINE
FOR ATTACK on BOLSHEVIkI

Associated Press Service:
AMSTERDAM. Feb. 16.-German
forces are algeadE being conccn-
trated in Ukraine 20 attack the boil
shevid. accordinE 10 Berlin dis
patch 90 the Tijd and declarations
looking to the active prosecution of
the war against tho bOlshevE jim
north Russia also will be made at
Berlin next week.
The German authorities arc an1-
ious regarding the fate of German
prisoners in north Russia whom the
bOlsheviki are holdinE as hosta-e=.
and who Berlin dispatches say may
be killed if the bolshevild are driven
TO desperation. Germany has already
served notice on the b0lsheuM au-
thorities that she viii enforce re-
prisals if the German prisoners are
harmed.
Count Czernin. the Austrian for
eign minister has notified Berlin
that Austrian troops must not be
used against Russia 20 support any
policy which Austria has not ap-
proved but only for purpose of SELF
defense against marauding bands.
Make Wholesale Arrests
The bolsheyiki are making whole
sale arrests Of Germans in Russia
and holding them as hostages ac-
cording TO a Risa dispatch received
by way OF Berhn. Three hundred
Germans and many pro-German-
Esthonians at Dorpat have been ar
rested and transferred 10 Kronstadt
All the food in the Dorpat district
has been coniscatej and il is almost
impossible 10 feed the German worn-
en- and children.
The lives OF those arrested, as
well as Germans and German sIp-
pOrters who have not yet been arr
rested. are hourly in great danger
adds the dispatch as the bolsheyki
threaten wholesale butchery. The
. bolshevik. have officially declared
/ the Baltimore nobility outlaws.
Associated Press Service
Germany has suddenly found here
self involved in maze OF difficulties
+ on the eastern front and iu danger
OF losing all the large benefits she
was calmly preparing 10 realize
from her peace with the Ukraine
and the bolsheviki withdrawal Of
/ Russia from the war
Poland that land which $50 fre-
/ quently in the course Of history has
4 proved a thorn boo the side of mill
I tary conqIerors. is threatening 10
/ constitute herself the rock of which
I the German hope OF peace and gain-
/ fuI expansion in the east may re
/ shattered. Emtlrt-red IE the tear
/ ing off If a strip Of their territory
10 be given the Jk-a.ne for break
ing away from the d9IsneeN and
signing 81, peace with the central
. powers. the Poles are lu what ape
pears % be virtually a 81 ~ re-
/ volt
Polish Army iu Revolt
Even the very weapon which
. Germany and Austria were az such
pains TO forge ln the hope or der.
ing militarv benelr-rhe Polish
army-5ids fair 90 b- turned against
them. Reports in the German news
papers which express dl-uav and
alarm over the Polish situation IN
dictate that the Polish leElouz uou
an effective military force. are on
the side OF the prevalent Polish
sentiment OF bitterness against The
central powers The situation has
grown So serious that the military
ore patrolLng The streets n WAR
saw
Austrla-H Hungary is partiei- darby
/ involved in the d.mculues leeau-
~ the prominent part which .t wss
. expected she would play i- the t.-
ture government of Poland. The
Polish elements and those -upa-
.th.zng with them .n the l.rI mon
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