Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-06
Tcutons Forced to Use Drastic
Measures TO Put Down Growing
Peasants Rebellion.
REFUSE TO SUPPLY GRAIN
Huns Faced by Difficulty Of Getting
Food and Refusal 10
Sow Wheat
DEFENDS USE OF IRON HAND
Vice Chancellor Won Payer Declares
Plans Arc Made to ASaissinatc
Germans.

WASHINGTON, May 5.-An Off
cial dispatch from Switzerland sad
the, central powers are preparing to
take drastic steps in Ukraiuia as the
result OF difficulties IN obtaining
supplies from that country and the
revolt aaginst Teutonic rule.
THE news reaching Switzerland
from Ukrainia by way OF Berlin
and Vienna" said the dispatch,
does not permit OF a doubt but that
we are face to face with a coup
d'etat OF the central empires. The
latter. driven by famine, are ready
to employ every means to seize from
Ukrainia the resources which she
still contains. 1t is reported that
blood has already been shed in Klev
in combats between the partisans OF
the new government and those Of
the former.
In weli-informcl circles in
Switzerland 1t is not ignored that
quite recently agents OF Baron Won
Mumm and Marshal Won Eichorn
distributed arms and munitions to
their partisans. Considerable funds
were distributed secretly by the
German staff for the success OF the
coup.
The Frankfurter Zeitung recog-
nizes that the revolution now being
dealt with in Ukrainia is solely the
consequence OF the demands OF the
central empires which want food
stuffs and cereals at all costs and
which will not hesitate to do any
thing to obtain them. According to
accurate information received in
Zurich combats also took place at
Ekaterinoslav, at Kharkov, at kher-
son and at Odessa between the Ger
mans and Ukrainians In revolt"
AMSTERDAM, May 5,--The i'm
per!al German vice chancellor,
-Non-Payer, speaking be-
fore the main committee Of the
re!chstag yesterday attempted to
justify Germany's use OF the iron
hand In Ukrainia the last few days,
wi ere, he declared, prominent
trkrriniIns, under the title of the
committee of safety, had been caught
planning the assassination OF all
Germ an officers, or. as the vice
chancellor phrased II. "a sort OF
Sicilian Nespers.'
Sicilian Nespers Is the term given
to tho, massacre OF the French in
Sicily by the Sicilians, which began
at Ialmcro. March 80. l2s2; so
,alled because of its commencement
as Verpers or Easter Monday. the
populace ran through the city cry,
ing out, "let the French die and
eight thousand. without distinction
of rank, age or sex, were killed
Won Fayer declared. according to
Berlin dispatches, that the member
ship of the committee OF safety IN
cmdcl several Ckrainian ministers
AMI that the committee held its
meetings ut the house OF the war
minister. The Germans. he added,
therefore. took steps to render
them harmless"
- he Germans entered ukrainia,'
sail the wee chancellor, at the ex-
press wish of the government for
the purpose of restoring orler. But
there we're also other grounds, we
had q lively interest in getting food
stuff as speedily as posi- BILE. The
idea was that great quantities OF
foodstl IFS could be procured in
Ukraine, and the ukrainians under
took to deliver at least one million
tons BY August l. The rada, how
ever. had no means of insisting on
tho delivery Of the grain ny the
incubation. The Germans therefore
had to concern themselves in obtain
ing deliveries in accordance with the
II eaty