Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-08-06
German "Attainments" tn the East

Travellers from the Ukraine, that most fertile of
Russian provinces from which the Kaiser expected
to fatten his starving granaries, picture the Ger
mans there as living in "a little Hades" Prus-
sian mitarism, seeking terrorize the people and
train them in serviceable vassalage, has aroused
the latent fire of usually peaceable peasants. The
Hohenzollerns emissaries have proved so insolent,
so high-handed and thevish, and the troops &C
companying them so brutal, that the simplest and
humblest of the natives have been stirred to hot
resentment. Guerilla warfare is constantly in
progress, the peasants in one region having band
ed themselves into sort of Robin Hood army
numbering upwards of twenty-five thousand. In
numerous instances the returning travellers say,
farmers burn their grain and destroy their cattle
rather than let them fall into the hands of the Huns
A fierce upfare of this deep and wide-reaching
hate found expression week in the assassination
of Field Marshal Won Eichorn, the German dicta-
tor in the Ukraine The Kaiser will retort,
doubt with redoubled strafng of the people and
with such new forms of Frightfuness his
sourceful butchers (his generals and statesmen he
terms them) contrve. But despite all he can
do affairs in the Ukraine are likely to grow still
more disconcerting to Germany's best laid plans,
more perilous to her criminal ambitions.
This situation is the significant because
II is broadly typical OF the Jrenu throughout rus
STA In his recent proclamation to the German
people on the beginning of the wars fifth year, the
Kaiser alluded with feigned satisfaction what
has been attained in the east by and safe
guarded by peace treaties" Was it really by arms
that his cheap triumph distraught Russia
obtained? On the contrary it by of the
blacklist perfdes in history, it by just such
treacherous peace parley that into which Ger
many soon will be seeking to inveigle the Allies.
Having solemnly pledged themselves to negotiate
peace with Russia on a basis of mo indemnities
and no annexations," the Germans led their vic
tim through the farce of the Brest-Litovsk
ference, and then with the betrayed and disarm-
ed nation at their mercy, fell to plunderng it Of
its richest provinces, taxing its people to the limit
of oppression and prosecuting them with that
sordid brutality of which the Hun alone is capable.
Is it to wondered that the Russian millions,
withstanding their lack of leadership and educa-
ton, are verging upon furious revolt against the
Boshevik traitors and against the perfdious power
that those Judases served? The assassination Of
the German ambassador at Moscow was a logical
sequence of the German crime at Brest-Litovsk.
The little Hades' which the Germans have found
in the Ukraine is but foretaste of the engulfng
He'll they will find long throughout the vast
Russian realm.
What has been attained in the east by arms
and safeguarded by peace treaties" says the
Kaiser, and what is being completed in the west
that gives the firm certainty that Germany
will issue strong and vigorous from this Storm
How grimly ironical ring his hollow words! In
the east Germanys attainment is gnom1ny and
pan-Slavic hatred; in the west is second bat
tie of the Marine!