The Washington herald., 1918-05-16
TEUTONS WILL
STAY ADVANCE
INTO UKRAINE
Germany Promises Lenine
to Respect Treaty Of
Brest-Litovsk.
PARTITION Is BEGUN
New Province Now Be-
ing Divided Up, Say
Dispatches.
PARTITION Is BEGUN

sponse to Premier Lentnes recent
protest against the German invasion,
has assured the Moscow government
that her troops will not advance
further In the Ukraine and Finland.
The note adds that Germany de-
sires to hold strictly to the terms Of
the Brest-Litovsk treaty"
Already Partitieniag UkraIne.
According to diplomatic dispatches
received here yesterday the Germans
and the Austrians have already begun
to partition the Ukraine into spheres
Of influence. A Moscow telegram
from Kiev recites that the Germans
have allotted to themselves for de-
yelopment and exploitation most Of
the valley Of the River Dnieper. To
the Austrians for the same purposes
have been turned over the rest of
the Dnieper Valley and the valley of
the River Bug.
Desperate German efforts are be-
ing made to make this division ap-
pear peacesble. Yet the Frank
furtsr zeitung of March IL ad-
mits that grave Ukrainian disorders
have arisen in Ekatarinoslav, Odes-
"a and Kolpara- On the other hand
the ofiicial Wolf bureau sends out a
long story to the effect that the
Ukraine government is with the
invaders
AsareAists Hate Isyaser.-
Russia has -besSpn.t 10 turn in earn
est against the Germans. Reports
Of the battle between the an
anchists and the Bolsheyiki In Mos
cow are SO interpreted by well in
formed Slavs in Washington.
The anarchists, strangely enough.
are in the party of law and order in
Russia today.
They hate the Germans as they
hated the old regime.
They are led by Katherine
Breshkovskais- grandmother Of the
Russian revolution" and recent re-
cipient of q cordial letter from
President Wilson. With her stands
Maxim Gorky. author and lecturer
well known in the United States.
He has consistently csmpaigned in
Russia against the Bolsheviki, and
against the Germans. The an
srchists are first Of all pure Rus
SLAMS.
Hopeful Sign.
The State Department was with
out advice as to the Importance of
the newest rising in Russia yes
terday afternoon. Caution is ex-
pessed lest too much faith be put
In this new element of resistance.
But men familiar with the Russian
problems assert that this activity
of the anarchists is the most hope
full sign that has yet shown itself
in the clouded Russian sky.
It is explained that they are call
cd anarchists because they fought
for the destruction of the old re-
gime Of the Czar. but they have
their own program for reconstruc-
ton, which they wish Immediately
to carry out. Unlike the Bolsheviki.
they do not believe that the new
order can only be established upon
the chaos resulting from the utter
destruction of the old.
Breshkevskaia q Farce.
President Wilson's letter to Kather-
lIle DEeSnkONSkdla lnuiCdlcQ INC Icnu
Of the party's thought. This remark
able old woman had at the time just
returned from long years of exile in
Siberia, whittier she had been sent by
the Car. The Kerensky regime was
Just beginning to totter. Mime. Bresh-
kovskaia declared that the salvation
Of the Russian people lay in education,
and the letter from the President was
an encouragement for her program Of
opening schools to the peasants and
the workingmen and their children.
Since that time little or nothing has
been heard of her and the anarchist
party until yesterdays account OF
their apparently unsuccessful attempt
at a coup in Moscow.
Initial Failure Likely.
: Failure in their first attempt is to
be expected, according to the men
who discussed the subject here yes
terday. At the present moment the
meance to the Bolsheviki from the
anarchists is far less Of a menace
than the Bolsheviki were to the Keren-
sky regime. according to the opinion
Of the State Department. ..r
But that they have begun their
campaign il regarded as the first sig
nificant reaction against the German
policy OF ruthlessness which II still
being pursued in Russia wherever the
German armies can reach.