The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-15
AUSTRIA WANTS
PEACE AND TRADE
WITH RUSSIANS
DESPITE BREAK AT BREST LIT.
0NSk, DUAL MONARCHY con.
TINUES WIREI. .ESS TALK.
BUT THEY DEFEND KAISER
Back Up German Plan to Make Breach
on Russian Frontier by Defending
Rebellious State of Ukraine, Thereby
Also Getting at Rich Grauary.

Amsterdam, Feb. 15.-Peace with tho
Ukraine was made not only so that the
central powers might obtain foodsturs.
but also to effect breach in the cast
ern front, it is indicated in a dispatch
from Vienna. A statement from a we'll
Informed source dealing with the con.
clusion of Brest Litovsk peace nego.
uations and given to Vienna news.
papers, says:
AS Trot2ky's attitude, particularly
concerning the application of the prrn.
ciple of self-determination, made a sat.
isfactory conclusion impossible IL be.
came the political task of the central
powers. who were working for peace, TO
make 4 breach in the eastern front
that is, to arrange a peace with the
Ukraine, thereby also arriving at a set.
tlement Of the Russian and Rumanian
questions.
Peace with the Ukraine had to be
made II only because a way was opened
by it to eastern Europe's richest gran.
airy. True, the country is not yet or.
ganized properly. but opportunity 10
effect improvements is now given, and
in conformity with the agreement
stocks of food will be imported here as
far as they are available"
The statement adds that peace with
the Ukraine was obtainable only on con.
dition that Cholm should be ceded 10
| the Ukraine, the desire for which could
be fulfilled by the application Of the
| principle Of self-determinatiou, which Is
recognized as applying to Russian ter.
ritory Cholm it is declared, is such n
mixed country ethnographically that
| there cannot be a question OF its be.
longing to Poland
Cholm Is Bartered.
Opposition to the arrangement Is
combatted by the statement which de.
clares that it is unintelligible inasmuch
as the principle of self-determlnation Is
appropriate for all Russian territory
and therefore for Russian Poland. II
adds that the arrangement did not sur.
prise the Poles, who never received a
definite promise, and who often advo
Gated the principle now applied to the
demarkation Of the frontier.
Peace with the Ukraine" the state
ment continued. lis the cornerstone OF
the entire peace structure. and opposi
ton to these arrangements cannot be
regarded rs compatible with the inter
ests of the monarchy.
I'm conformity with the stipulation,
of the treaty all Ukranian surplu,
grain is to be exported up to July 81
A commission has been formed to dc
termine the amount Of this surplus, anC
to what extent we can give assistance ir
this respect. Assistance will be giver
both technically and militarily.
Plan to Fight BOlsheyilii.
Military support will be required 1
central depots and functions must b,
protected from attacks by bandits an,
the bolsheviki. 1t is not a question o
a military alliance, but common or
ganization for the protection of railwa,
service and delivery of grain"
The statement then refers to the ei
feet produced at Brest Litovsk by tn
: conclusion Of peace with the Ukrain
and says:
"Trotzky and his government, recos
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