Evening star., 1918-02-15
Resumption of Military Acfiv-
tiles Against Siavs at Hand.
Petrograd to Be Occupied.
ARMISnCE is ENDED
BY TRoTZKY, is THEORY
Teutons Will Go to Defense Of
Ukraine as One Step in Extend
ing Power Over New States. D.,
By the Associated Prem.

By the Associated Prem.
LONDON, February 15-Germany has
resolved to renew military activities
against northern Russia This decision
is said to have been reached at . con-
ference at imperial headquarters, special
dispatches from Holland say.
The conference was attended by En-
peror William, Chancellor Won HertIing, :.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, Gen. Won
Ludendorff, Foreign Secretary Won
Kuehlmann and others.
The "no war, but no peace plan OF [
Leon Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign >
minister, was rejected at the conference,
according to the Amsterdam correspond
ent of the Daily Express, and as Trotzky
does not want peace, he will get war.
Will Occupy Petrograd.
Invasion of Great Russia, it is added.
will continue. at any rate, until Petro-
grad is occupied by German troops.
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Rotterdam says that the Germans take
the view that Trotzky's declaration.
though it did not end the war. auto
matically ended the armistice- (The
armistice expired February 14) The
Germans now consider that they have
free hand and mean to use the oppor-
tunity.
This. according to the correspondent
does not mean necessarily that the Ger
mans will Immediately try to reach
Petrograd. but more probably that they
will support the Ukraine by force OF
arms. The Germans. he says. are car
rying on an active propaganda in the
Ukraine for the purpose of suggesting
to the rada that the new state is en-
dangered by the bolsheviki. 1t Is de-
clared that this Is all part Of Ger
manys scheme for breaking up the
former Russian empire, with a view te
over the new states OF whom 1t is pos
ing as protector.
Bolsheviki Move on Ukraine.
1t is certain that the bolsheviki are
now moving troops against the
Ukraine. Berlin dispatch to the KoeI-
nische Nolks Zeitung says, and the cen.
trail powers do not intend to allow
themselves thus to be robbed of the
fruits of their lately concluded peace.
The newspaper adds that ii prob
ably has been decided at the conference
at imperial headquarters to resume op-
erationS on the northern Russian front
for the protection of the Ukraine"
Purpose of Ukraine Peace.
AMSTERDAM. February 15-Peacs
with the Ukraine was made not only
so that the central powers might OBJ.
tain foodstuffs, but also to effect q
breach in the eastern front, it is indi-
Gated in a dispatch from Vienna A
statement from a well informed source
dealing with the conclusion of the
Brest-Litovsk negotiations. and given
to Vienna newspapers. says:
LAS Trotzky's attitude. particularly
concerning the application of the prin-
ciple of self-determination, made
satisfactory conclusion impossible, it
became the political task of the powers
who were working for peace to make
a breach in the eastern front; that is,
to arrange a peace with the Ukraine.
thereby also arriving at settlement
of the Russian and Rumanian ques-
tions. Peace with the Ukraine had to
be made il only because a way was
opened by it to eastern Europe's rich
est granary. True. the country is not
yet organized properly, but opportunity
to effect improvements is now given.
stocks of food will be imported here al
far as they are available"
Cession of Chol INTO Ukraine.
The statement adds that peace with
the Ukraine was obtainable only on
condition that Cholm should be ceded to
the Ukraine, the desire for which could
be fulfilled by the application of the
principle of Differentiation, which
territory. Cholm, it is declared. is such
a mixed country ethnographically that
there cannot be question of its be-
longing to Poland.
Opposition to the arrangement is
combated by the statement which de-
clares that it is uninteligible. mas
much as the principle of self-deter-
mination is appropriate for all Russian
territory and therefore for Russian Po-
land II adds that the arrangement did
not surprise the Poles, who never re-
ceived a definite promise. and who
often advocated the principle now ap-
piled to the demarcation of the from
tier
Corner Stone of Peace Structure.
Peace with the Ukraine" the state
ment continues. 'is the corner stone OF
the entire peace structure. and roppo-
.ition to these arrangements cannot be
regarded as compatible with the inter-
ests of the monarchy.
I'm conformity with the stipulationS
Of the treaty all Ukrainian surplus
grain is to be exported up to July 81. A
has been formed to deter
mine the amount of supplies and to
what extent We can give assistance in
this respect. Assistance will be given
both technically and militarily.
Military support will be required IL
central depots and functions must be
from attacks by bandits and
he bolshevikL 1t Is not a question OF q
alliance. but a common or
yanization for the protection of rail--
way service and delivery Of grain"
Effect at Brest-Litovsk.