The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-08-02
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/. UKRAINE GRAIN 4 \
X Was Burned There BY Rem L
,ants Of the czecho.SIovak
Retiring Army.
TOUCH IE:uI's /! m !. s ! ! y
Food Allowances Reduced, and star.
walton ii Some Places e Appar.
snt-1ake Revenge for oppree.
,;ve Treatment o. Bohemia.

| Northumberland the many easy
triumphs which enabled the Teutons
this year to. slice great sections from
the map OF Russia; like coupons from
d bond, Germany and Austria both, sui.
fered one frightf,il disappointment.
And the ping was IN the weakest part
Of their political anatomy-the coAec.
tive stomach Of their peoples.
The gfuin Of which the two katsers
expected to plumber the Ukraine was
not thefe-at least there was 30 little
Of 1t that Germany had to lower her
bread ration. While Austria continued
to starve bit more rapidly. The sup.
plies had been burned. s9Ai s.s.a 3s" Z,
These fires were lighted, with d kind
| Of poetic justice, by the remnants sof
the Czecho-Slovak army-deserters
from the Austrian ranks and inyet-
crate, enemies Of; the Hapsburgs, who
had been reconstructed into Russian
military. ,,nitst under the Kerensky
regime and fought 80 splendidly for
Russia before the whole milton col.
lapsed from the craving Of the Dol.
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Fortunate Tor the ALLIES.
Until March Of this year this Csecho.
slovak army had been stationed In the
ukraine- 900 men in line and 5000
more in reserve. Then bolshevik rep.
resentatives dissolved their orga1tzh..
ton and took away their arms, though
about 10000 refused to part with their
weapons. They were given promises
that they would be allowed to leave
Russia for the United states but, of
course, no means Of transportation
we're provided, And SO they remained
where they were. (; ! |s% u. &C.. G,
. twas fortunate for the allies that
they did. AZ. soon IL they realized
that Germanr:'s chief objective In
RUSSIA way the Ukrainsan grain sup.
ply, they began l systematic campaign
81 pillxge and burning; H. which they
were; assisted, By the peasants Thorn
selves. aroused at, the thought that
the old landowners we're to ,returrl nm
der: German protection: 4 ' 5*t..'
The evidence that the ,Cxecho- SID
walks were successful Il. incontestdble.
Count 4 Czernin,%;> $Austro,H Hungarian
prime minister until hts little; ex-
change Of pledsantries with j n;
Gemenceau. placed. the, Tesponsibllity
for the bare ukraintan cupboard on
the shoulders II the Czechc,Slovaks.
German representatives In the Aus
trian reichsrath repfcted the charge IN
greater details, A htasyar deputy: In
the Hungarian parliament, recently de.
cIared: that; the Czecho-S lovak army Ia
Ukraine had burned or taken away
everything II value: |. !: Il. ...
=: Haa Thslt Revenge. sff .s,
y Not only sdid theeyy. destroy: what they
could. but they fought bitterly to pre-
vent the 2Tentonsj stalking what was
,eft. Retiring and hampered BY their
lack Of equipment, they stopped 10
meet the; advancing Germans repeat
eddy. IN the field. Their last battle.
one, of those confused struggles which
get little space in the cable reports.
was fought near Bachmac. halfway
between Kieff and Kursk on the road
to- Moscow. After the hght, though
the Czecho- sloyaks had been armed
chiefly with axes, they themselves
buried more than 800 Germans. n:
Certainly in 4 Ukraine the Czecho.
Sioyaks have had their revenge for
three centuries /, OF suffocntion and
oppression In Bohemia. But through.
out the war they have launched shat.
tering blows against their Austrian
and German enemies and the whole
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