The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-03
Ukrainians, Enraged at the
Treatment by Germans,
Are Threatening War
COMMUNICATION
WITH BASES CUT
Grabbed-Armed Motor Cars of Poles
Taken Away-Germans Said to Have
Very Little Artillery.

MOSCOW, March 27-(By The Asso
ciated Press More than 500 Germans
occupying kherson were defeated,
many were killed or captured and the
rest fed, leaving two armored cars,
when the city was recaptured by the
Bolshevik forces.
The situation in Ukraine presents
one of the most intricate questions
arising from conditions in the East.
Dissatisfaction with the peace terms
is widespread among the peasants and
workingmen, and is being aggravated
| by German acquisitions of grain, sugar
and other products.
| The central rada, the chief legisla-
tive body of the Ukraine, passed a vote
of want of confidence in the Ukrainiah
government after the peace treaty was
signed. The high handed treatment of
Ukrainians by the Germans, leading to
a conflict with the German command
ant at Kiev, resulted in the resignation
] Oh MI. tIluId. IL lItLlptT VI lilt gov
eminent, and eventually may lead to an
open break.
Information from authoritative
Ukrainian sources gives the impression
that the rada is seeking to come to
terms with the Bolshevik government
on the basis of a federated alliance
with the Russian republic, but thus
far no negotiations have begun.
Russians must take rife in one
hand and a hammer in the other. sub
nit to the most strict discipline and
work Is hours a day if they hope to
combat the menace threatening them,
declared Assistant Minister of War
Podvoisky, in a speech urging the i'm
mediate forming of a regular army. He
ridiculed guerrilla warfare and said
such a thing would only be a ''fiea-
bite, Russia, he, said, wants dicta
tors and business organization instead
of pious intentions. He advocated com
pulsory training and commercial a:
well as military mobilization.
: The Bolshevik newspaper Pravd;
SAYS that recruiting for the red army
! has been unsuccessful because of tn,
/ opposition of the bourgeois, who - mus
pt removed DN nitIcileSS terror II hec
cSsary.
5 An American who escaped from
Minsk two da.-s after the Germans oc
cupied the city and has reached Mos
COW, reports:
{ Polish troops who assisted the Ger
i mans in capturing Minsk were amaze
: and disguised when, two days after
3 ward the Germans seized their armore
ears and announced that the German
G alone would police the city. All motto
ears, carts and wagons were con
o mandeered by the Germans. who q
I once began to seize all foodstuffs.
$ This speedily turned the peopl
Il against them and telephone lines c
c communication with the German base
were repeatedly cut by Russians 4,
spite the warning by the Germans tha
all persons doing this would be kille,
There are about 1000 German so
"a dicrs in Minsk and the citizens arc
antagonistic that q movement aeain'
the invaders is expected. The &c
s. mans are said to have very little a
t. tillerv'
IS The newspapers report that a Pc
10 sian delegation has left Teheran f,
re btIilH, pE way VI Noiistdhtlhoplei
n arrange permanent alliance betwee
Persia and Germany, based upon
a large loan BIZ Germany to finance Pc
S sian railways and to equip the Pc
&C sian army with German instructor
u The Persian charge at Petrograd, den
is ing this report, states that Persia
merely endeavoring to arrange a sc
r. Element of the damages suffered and
an assure Persia representation at the |
MS innate peace conference in order to i
n sure payment from the belligerents.
re All Russian troops have been !
moved from Persia, according to /