Evening star., 1918-02-16
WAR FEVER GROWS
OUT Of PEACE TALK
Germany's Schemes in East
ern Regions Revealed d-Po-
land Greatly Excited.
RUSS FACING CONFLICT
By RENE FEIBELMAN.


CableEram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 191s'
AMSTERDAM. February 16.-From
Information reaching Holland it seems
that the situation in eastern Europe is
rapidly getting more serious than ever
and that there has been more war fever
and activity since everybody began
talking peace than there was before.
Germany apparently intends to use
as a pretext for resuming hostilities
that "it has received reports that the
Russians. far from demobilizing. are
actually sending reinforcements down
attacking the young republic" Thus
Germany in attacking defenseless Rus
sia. it is pointed out, wants to do it on
the pretense of protecting the small
nation, Ukraine. II this plan material
ICES it will be Gen. Ludendorn's great
est success. For a month he has been
hammering at the idea of a march on
Petrograd.
Russia will be ours Internationally
he says.
Trouble in Poland.
That Germany really does not think
| Of demobilizing in the east is shown
by the fact that the peace with the
Ukraine has caused grave trouble in
Poland. In fixing up the Ukrainian map
the German, Austrian and Ukrainian
peace delegates simply hand over to
| the young republic large tract of land
! which is unQuestionably Polish Ger
man newspapers admit that Poland has
been wronged.
The Taeglische Runschau says: Ser
tainly the new Ukrainian frontier v1o-
lates Poland's historic rights. but we
cannot heed historic rights. as that
upon which we mean to base our peace
! Is the self-determination of all peoples
to have the government they choose"
The taking of the old Polish territory
of Cholm and giving it to the Ukraine
was especially displeasing to the Poles.
whose government resigned as pro-
| test against the German action. In the
with marked hostility toward Ger
many, SO that all of the Teuton efforts
at dattery and bullying to establish a
| pro-German administration in Warsaw
| have again been frustrated.
I In many Polish towns strikes have
| occurred, and black flags have been
| hoisted over all the houses as the sign
! of a. national calamity. Poland is not
likely to submit to what really
| country.
Vorwaerts. the socialist organ. de-
nounces Germany's scheme to declare
! Lithuaina Autonomous under Ger
| man control" 1t says that this evil
| Poles Greatly Excited.
| BY the Associated Press.
! LONDON. February 16-There is
much feeling against the central pow.
! ers in Warsaw. the capital OF Russian
| Poland. and great excitement prevails
according to an Exchange Telegraph
! f,hf X.
men are said to be planning demonstra.
tions. The streets are being patrolled
| by soldiers and policemen.
| In discussing the latest Ukrainian.
| Polish developments. the .VorwaertS OF
| Berlin. the socialist organ. says:
| .The ane days of German-Polish
| friendship are past and their place has
! been taken by something quite new
| ity of interest. as opposed to Polish
aspirations. But the gradual progress
of worlds history may again alter the
outlook in the east. Even were there
the part of Poland toward the central
| powers, it will now no longer be at
| tainable. The project of an Austro-
| Polish solution of the situation is float
plans for a dukedom of LitnuanIa and
Courland also vanish with it ?"
Kiev Is Attacked.
"A QlSpdtCH To tHe IIACUdHSc lele-
graph from Amsterdam says:
| "A wireless dispatch received in
Vienna from the Ukrainian premier an
| nounces that kiev had been attacked
on all sides, but that the battle was
| beginning to develop to the advantage
of the Ukrainians. The dispatch added
that the defeat of the bolsheviki was
| considered inevitable"
| Russia's withdrawal from the war
was real withdrawal, and the throw
| ing away of all, agreements with her
| former allies, said Leon Trotzky. the
| bolshevik foreign minister, in report
, ing to the all-Russian workmen's and
| soldiers councils on the result Of the
Brest-Litovsk conference, according to
| a Russian wireless dispatch received
here. The dispatch says the councils
approved Trotzky's policy.
By virtue of the treaty with the
Ukraine. by which the status quo ante
of the frontiers between Austria-Hun-
gary and Russia were established,
Austro-Hungarian troops Wednesday
entered Brody and took peaceful pos
session of the town, says a dispatch
from Vienna Thus the last big town
in East Galicia was returned to Aus
tria- Hungary.
Still at War, Says Won Kuehlmann.
AMSTERDAM, February 16-That
Germany and Austria were still at war
with Russia was the belief expressed
by DR.. Richard Won kuehlmann, the
German foreign secretary. at the con-
Icl, Of no