The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-08-29
DISAPPOINTMENT FOR HUNS.
Have Failed to Realize Their Rosy
Expectations in Ukrainia.

EypectatiOnS In Ckralna.
"Following the assassination OF
Field Marshal Won Eichhorn, a Sec
oned plot has been discovered TO
murder all German officers.
Popular hatred of the Germans Is
inextinguishable." -. 1T Is UNSAFE
To 90 outside the big towns except
in companies"
This from the Ukraine. AND OF
late many counties has disappointed
Germany. But the Ukraine, which
WAS Germany's friend, which was to
Give her first wheat and then a corrl-
dor from Mittel Europa to Mlttel
Asien, O bids fair, according to
recent dispatches received from
WASHINGTON to be the biggest disap-
pointment of them all.
Of wheat there were 00,OOO,OOo
poods-65,000,000 bushels - IN
mi small part of the country alone.
And before the end of March every
thing had been arranged for. IN
April 100000 pools were to be
gathered and shipped, in May lo'ooo'-
600. in June 100000. And with
first ambassador Baron Won Mumm
there went to Kief n Field Mar
shall Won Eichhorn of a name already
terrible in northern Russia so that
the first steps towards Mittel Aslen
could be taken simultaneously.
Wanted, American Dollars.
But from the first, as it now ap-
nears the Ukraine made objections
even in the matter of wheat. She
needed it all for her W people, and
the warehouses and elevators were
already empty. Under her new COM
munist constitution, she could not
sell it. at any rate for export. When
asked to barter, she demanded things
which Germany obviously couldn't
snare: textiles, agricultural nipple
ments. railroad materials, and the
like. And when finally, she did give
her wheat growers permission tc
take money, they would take neither
Russian rubles nor Austrian kroner
not even imperial German marks
They said they had full confidence
oniy in America, and would take
American dollars. With that, F1elo
Marshal General Won Eichhorn him
self had to take action. By edlct ne
gave notice that Germany would pro
cure what wheat she needed by send
ing out wheat requisltlonlne
troops" and under penalty of forced
labor. all Ukrainian peasants ane
farmers should plant the greatest
possible harvest for 1918.
BY then, too, he had been compeii
ed to take action in other ways. The
Ukraine was cutting up the estates OF
it's great mobiles, who alone nae
shown themselves to be Germany:
genuine friends. She was suher1ns
conspiracies to be planned by a Ger
tain committee for the salvation o
Ukraine. She could have nothing tt
say to a newly interpreted clause II
the treaty of Brest-Litovsk~ which
would give Germany an indemnlt,
"for her military and restoring or
der" Above all, far from openin'
the way to Middle Asia. by refusln'
to- cooperate with groups OF goo
German workers in the Crimea an
the Caucasus she was closing II
Again, no halfway measures Woul
suffice. The real need, in the word
of Vice Chancellor Won Payer, was =
transformation of Ukrainia's govern
ment." And Field Marshal Genera
Won Eichhorn transformed it.
We have heard something OF on
Skoropadski, the new Hetman OF tn
Ukraine. According to German re
ports $4,000 UkrainiaDs gathered
Kief alone to call upon him to al
asss