Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-07-25
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A UKRAINE GRAIN
ltfWas hBurned There by Rem
nants, of the ho-SIovak
Retiring Army.
TOUeH'TEUTs IN STOMAcHs
Food Allowances Reduced. and Star
walton In Some Places IL Appsr.
ent--fake Revenge for oppres
slve ffestment Of Bohemia.

Washington. the many easy
triumphs which enabled the Teutons
this year ~, Gire, great sections from
IN map n Russih. like coupons from
q bond. Germany and Austria both suf.
fercd one frightful disappointment.
And the pang was In the weakest part
Of their political nnatomy--the collec-
tive stomach of their peoples.
The grain Of which the two kalsers
expected to plumber the Ukraine was
not there-at least thcfe was 50 little
Of Il that Germany hati to, loyfr her
Bread. rAffbn ffirc kdsdfh ev6iihued
w staSer atff fnorcrdpniy. rhtsup-
piles had been burned.
These fires We're lighted. with a kind
of poetic .dinditt, Blythe remnants Of
en- CNthb skS5h -deserttrs
from IN Atfffian ranks and Invet.
crate cfiemies ~ ihe IIapsburgs. who
had breh ftbnHrutcd ihtb Russian
military units under the Kerensky
regime and fought 50 splendidly for
Rnssh fjtf5pa ffN whole nation COL
Iapsed from IN rnawinr n fhs Boil
khevik.
Fortunate for the Allies
Until March Of thisyearfhis Czecho-
siovak armyflmd been stationed In the
Ukraine-5O.0oO men in nhe,hnd 50,0oo
more I'm rcserve. Then bolshevik rep
resenfafivcs dissolved their organiza-
tion and took away their arms. though
about 2O,OOO refused TO part with their
weapons. They were given promises
that they would be allowed to leave
Russia for the United States. but, Of
course. no means Of transportation
were provided. And So they remained
where they were.
" was fortunate for the allies that
thy lid. As soon as they realized
that Gcrmnny's chief objective In
RussIa was the UkraInlan grain sup
ply they began n systematic campaign
Of pIllage and burning. In which they
were assisted by the peasants them
selves. aroused nj the thought that
the old landowners were to return un.
der German protection.
The evidence that the Czecho- Slo-
vaks were Successful u incontestable.
Count CzernIn. Austro-H Hungarian
prime minister until his little cx.
change Of pleasantrles with NJ.
Clemenceau. placed the responsibility
for the hare Ukrninian cupboard on
the shoulders Of the Czecho- Slovaks.
German representatives In the Aus
trinn reichsrnth repeated the charge IN
greater details A Magyar deputy In
the Hungarian parliament recently de.
clared that the Czecho-Slovak army In
Ukraine had burned or taken away
everything of value.
Had Their Revenge.
Not only dld they DESTROY what they
could. hut they fought bitterly to pre-.
vent the Tcutons taking what was
left. Retiring and hampered by their
lack ~ equipment. they stopped 10
meet the advancing Germans repeat.
edly In the field. Their last battle,
one ~ those confused struggles which
get little space In the cable reports,
WINS fought near Bnchmnc. halfway
between Elcif and Kursk on the road
20 Moscow. After the fight. though
the Czecho- Slovnks had been armed
chiefly with axes. they themselves
buried more than 800 Germans.
Certainly In Ukraine the Czecho.
Sloyaks have had their revenge for
three centuries Of suffocation and
oppression In Bohemin. But through.
out the war they have launched shat.
terinH blow ncninsf their Austrian