The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1918-07-26
HUNS DIDN'T GET
UKRAINE GRAIN
II Was Burned There by Rem
nantS Of the CzeChO- -SIOvak
Retiring Army.
TOUCH TEUTS IN STOMACHS
Food Allowances Reduced, and Star.
walton In Some Places Is Appar-
ent-Take Revenge for oppres-
sive Treatment of Bohemia.

Washington.-Amld the many easy
triumphs which enabled the Teutons
this year TO slice great sections from
the map of Russia, like coupons from
bond, Germany and Austria both suf-
fered one frightful disappointment.
And the pang was in the weakest part
Of their political anatomy-the collec-
tive stomach of their peoples.
The grain Of which the two kaisers
expected to plunder the Ukraine was
not there-at least there was so little
Of it that Germany had to lower her
bread ration, while Austria continued
to starve bit more rapidly. The sup
plies had been burned.
These fires were lighted, with a kind
Of poetic justice, by the remnants Of
the Czecho-SlOvak army-deserters
from the Austrian ranks and invet-
crate enemies of the Hapsburgs, who
had been reconstructed into Russian
military units under the Kerensky
regime and fought so splendidly for
Russia before the whole nation col
lapsed from the gnawing Of the boil
sheviki.
Fortunate for the Allies.
Until March of this year this Czecho-
Slovak army had been stationed in the
Ukraine-5O,OO men in line and $4,000
more in reserve. Then bolshevik rep
resentatives dissolved their Organiza-
tion 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
were provided. And so they remained
where they were.
1t was fortunate for the allies that
they did. AS soon as they realized
that Germany's chief objective in
Russia was the Ukrainian grain sup
ply they began a systematic campaign
of pillage and burning, in which they
were assisted by the peasants them
selves, aroused at the thought that
the old landowners were to return I'M
der German protection.
The evidence that the Czecho-Slo-
vaks were successful is incontestable.
Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian
prime minister until his little ex-
change Of pleasantrles with NJ.
placed the responsibility
FOR the bare Ukrainian cupboard on
The shoulders of the Czecho-SlOvaks. |
German representatives in the Aus
.rian reichsrath repeated the charge in |
greater details. A Magyar deputy in
he Hungarian parliament recently de-
Jared that the Czecho-Slovak army in
Ukraine had burned or taken away
everything of value.
Had Their Revenge.
Not only did they destroy what they
,ould, but they fought bitterly to pre-
7ent the TeutOns taking what was
eft. Retiring and hampered by their
ack of equipment, they stopped to
meet the advancing Germans repeat
IDLY in the field. Their last battle,
me of those confused struggles which
,et little space in the cable reports,
vas fought near Bachmac, halfway
between Kieff and Kursk on the road
o Moscow. After the fight, though
he Czecho-Slovaks had been armed
hiefy with axes, they themselves
uried more than 300 Germans.
Certainly in Ukraine the CzechO-
'lovaks have had their revenge for
hree centuries of suffocation and
oppression il Bohemia. But through
ut the war they have launched shat
ering blows against their Austrian
nd German enemies and the whole
dea Of Mittel Europa.
Fire Destroys Barn.
Eaton, O., July 17.-Loss estimated
It $4,000 was sustained by Joseph
Campbell when fire destroyed barn
N his farm, 10 miles southwest OF
lere. One hundred tons of hay and
1000 bushels Of new wheat are in.
luded in the loss.
browns In Creek.
Columbus, July 23.-Gerald Nc.
luire, 10, living two miles west of