The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-05-13
Frontier Has Beer Closed
By Germany To All
Ukrainians
HOsTILITIEs
CONTINUING
Dowager Empress And
Grand Dukes In Ger
man Hands
(By Associated Press.l

London, May 1S.--Wireless mes
sages sent from the Russian govern
ment to Berlin make disclosures re-
garding German methods in Russia.
One complaint deals with a message
received by the Ukrainian colony in
Petrograd from Ukraine. in which
1t is stated, that the frontier has
been closed by the Germans to all
Ukrainians. The evacuation or
fUkrainians from Russia is being
carried out by means of wagons un=
der terrible conditions. particularly
for the sick and for children.
Count Won Mirbach, German am
bassador to Russia. to whom the
Ukrainians applied for assistance,
declared his inability to do anything.
The Russian government begs the
German foreign office to bring pres
sure to bear on the German govern
rnent, because the needs of the
ukrainian refugees are very great.
London, May 12.-In g. wireless
message to Ambassador Joffe at
Berlin, the Russian foreign minister,
M. Tchitoherin, instructs the ambas-
sador to "try to obtain from Berlin
cessation of every kind of hostility"
One dispatch adds:
Captures of our territory are in
violation of the state Of peace with
Germany, and are causing great un-
rest among the masses OF our popu-
lation."
M. Joffe also is instructedsto notify
Germany that part Of the Russian
Black sea fleet which has left Sc
bastopol now is at Novorossysk, on
the east coast OF the Black sea,
r
eaing to capture, on the ground that
their own warships are in danger OF
attack by the Russians, M. Tch1tch-
erin says the Russian warships there
will make no such attack,
f Now in German Hands.
Amsterdam, May 13.-The. Ukrain
ian press bureau has received. infor-
nation. from Odessa, according to
which the former dowager empress,
Maria EeodoPovona, and Grand
Dukes Nicholas Nicholievitch, and
Alexander Michaelovitch,E who had
been living st Dulbar, near Aitodory
in the Crimea, are in the hands OF
the Germans. .,,.,.'
Special dispatches from Moscow,
published last Saturday, reported
that the dowager. empress had ar
rived at Kiev, the Ukrainian capital
This news was coupled with the
statements that General Skoropad-
ski, the new Ukrainian dictator, had
been one OF the pages Of the former
empress, and that Grand Duke Dml-
tri Pavloyitch, who also was report
ed to be in Kiev. had taken prom
inent part in the coup d'etat. by
which the Ukrainian rada was over
thrown and a dictatorship establish,
ed.
The ex-dowager empress is g. Dane
by, birth. She had been living in the
sCrimea in straitened circumstances
since the Russian revolution.
Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholavitch
is the former commander in chief or
the Russian armies and regarded as
the greatest of Russia's military
leaders. He Joined in the general
and since is believed to have been
living in retirement on his estate in
the Crimea, although there have
been various reports connecting him
with royalist plots.
Little has been heard Of Grand
Duke Alexander Michaelovitch since
the abdication last year. It is prob
able, however. that he has been liy-
ing continuously in the Crimea. he
is a, brother-in-law Of the former
emperor.
Cool Toward Government.
Amsterdam. May 13.-The great
mass of the population at Kiev is
maintaining cool attitude toward
the new Ukrainian government, with
some show OF hostility, according to
Berlin TagebIatt. Complete order
prevails, however. the newspaper de-
clares.
The arrival of three Russian peace