The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-07-06
WHEN HUN MOTHER HUBBARD GOES
TO THE UKRAINE CUPBOARD, SHE
WILL FIND THERE'S NARY A BONE
Special Correspondence to The Herald

Washington. Iuly g Amid the
many easy triumphs which enabled
the Tcutons his Year tn slice great
sections from the map OF russia, like
coupons From; 90 bond Germany and
Austria both suffered one frightful dis
appointment And the pang was ia
the weakest part of their political
auatomy-the collective stomach Of
their peoples,
The grain uf which the two kHisers
expected 10 plumber The Ukraine was
MOI there az least. there was $40 little
~ 1t that Grrmuuy hld 80 lower nor
bread ration while Austria continued
to gtii,r q bit more rapidly TITO sup
plies had been burned
THESE fires were lighted. WITH 10
kind of purtic justice. ht thr remnants
II the Czechn- Sloyuk army dcscrters
from the austrian ranks ami inyotor-
ate enemies Of tho I%spsbuIe.. who
had been reconstructed into Husslan
military units under thr k"rensky
regime and fought so spl,ndldly for
l.ussin before tho whole nation cot
lapsod from the rnawing pf the Bol-
shcviki
tntl March OF his year his
'2eoho- Slavok army had been sta
toned IN tn" Ukraine So. U0u men in
line aud $4,000 more In reserve. Then
B~Oishcviki representative dissolved
their organization and took away
their arms. though about 20. 600 re
fused to part with their weapons.
They were given promises that they
would be allowed to leave Russia Tor
the United states. but. 81 course. 40
means Of transportation ~4s provided
Ana -o they remained where they
were
Systematic burning
II was fortunate for the allies that
they did. As soon us they rollizod
that Germany chief objective in
Russia was the Ikranian grain sup
+ ply they began q systematic cam
paign of pilliEo and burning, in
which theS were assisted hy the pea
SAINTS themselves. aroused Ut the
thought hat the old landowners were
T." return under German protection.
The evidence that the Czechu-Eln-
walks were successful b. nconiesuble.
Count C2eruiu. Nuetro Hungarian
l''|'' HlANlNA'l hi'Al IhN l'llf 'N'llilhE'
~ pleasautries with VI C~lcmcncoau.
placed the responsibility for the bare
krdnian cupboard ON Ia" shoulders
of the CZecho- Sluvaks. German repre-
sentatives IN the Austrian roichsrat
repeated the charge In greater detail
4 Magyar deputy in the Hungarian
parliament recently declared tina tho
'zecho-Ssovak army In Ukraine had
burned or taken away everything ~
value.
Not only did they dcstroy what they
could, but they fought bitterly 10 pre-.
vent the Tcutuns taking what was left.
Retiring 70 huWporrd los their lack
ui equipment. they stopped To- mocI
the advancing Germans repeatedly tr
the field Their last battle. one OF
those confused struggles which get
little space in the cable reports. was
fought near Bachmnr. hallway be.
tween Kieff ana Kursk on the road
Ia Moscow After the fight, though
the tzechu-Slovaks had been armcd
chiefly with axes they themselves
hurled more than 500 Germans
Certainly in Ukraine the Cyecho.
Slovaks have had their revenge fni
three centuries of suffocation and up.
preston In Bohemia. But through.
out the war they have launched shat.
tcring blows against their Austrian