Evening star., 1918-02-10
UKRAINE PEACE PACT
FIRST OF THE WAR
Agreement With Germans May
Prove EpochaI, But Results
Are Doubtful.
TEUTONS SEEK STORES

BY the Associated Press.
The central powers are busying them
selves with their manifold peace negotia-
tions with various groups of more or
less importance on the eastern front.
They announced having come to a peace
agreement with the Ukraine at o'clock
Saturday morning.
This announcement, marking the first
peace concluded by any Of the belliger-
snts, may turn out to be one OF epochal
Importance. II had been largely dis
counted, however, by the apparent anx-
iety manifested by the representatives
of the Ukrainian rada at Brest-Litovsk
to sign peace of some sort with Ger
many and her allies and also by the un-
certainty as to the reality of the peace
which has been achieved ON paper.
Doubt as to Control.
Doubt exists as to the extent OF the
control exercised by the rada over the
territory comprising the so-caIied
Ukrainian republic, which it purports TO
represent. That control is disputed by
the bolsheviki, who broke with the rada
representatives at Rrest Litovsk and ap-
pointed Ukrainian delegates OF their own
when they found the first set of ukrain-
geois" secretly negotiating with the CEN
trail powers. Bolshevik and Ukrainian
troops are engaging each other for the
mastery of the territory. which includes
some of the best grain-growing prov
inces of Russia and each is claiming
success in the operations.
Seeking Food Supplies.
Germany and Austria are tacitiy ad-
mitted to have seized upon the oppor-
yx-tf
Ukrainians in the hope that they could
work their way commercially into the
grain-growing territory and thus Sc
cure supplies of food for their hungry
populations Their own people seem
to have built great hopes on the ef-
fectiveness of this peace with the
Ukraine. but apparently their leaders
are none too certain of the relief 1t
will give-for one thing. because of
the uncertainty as to the security OF
the rada's power in the territory.
Thus they are reported trying to in
cite Rumania to join forces with the
Ukrainians in an attempt to defeat the
bolsheviki and to be holding out to
the Rumanians the possibility OF their
taking portions of Russian territory in
Bessarabia as a reward, labelling the
transaction as compensation for the
loss of Dobrudja to the Bu1garians.
The Ckrainians. it has been reported,
were to get part of Russian Poland for
signing peace.
Austrian Statement.
LONDON, February S.-An Austrian
official statement received here says
that peace with Ukraine was signed at
Brest-Litovsk.
At a resumed meeting OF the Brest-
Litovsk conference on Wednesday. ac-
icording to an Amsterdam dispatch to
the Central News. after a discussion
on the right of the Russian delegation
to represent the Poles. Or. Richard
Won kuehlmann, the German foreign
secretary announced that in accord
ance with the wishes of the Russians
an adjournment would be taken SO that
the work of. the committee could pn-
'dergo review.
No More Concessions to Russ.
AMSTERDAM, February s.-Discuss-
ing the peace negotiations, the Nord-
deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung says that
no further concessions to the Russians
will be permitted Should the peace
negotiations with Ukraine materiaIize.
with Trotzky may be matter of in
difference to u.s. the paper adds.
Forwaerts says this means that
Trotzky will be confronted with an
uitimatum requiring him fully to rec
ognlze the German demands of Decem-
ber u, including the question of self
determination for the Russian border
people as the German government
conceives it. Otherwise war against
Russia will be resumed
we do not know what Trotzky will
reply" says Vorwaerts, but IL the ne
gotiations are wrecked we know the
German people will inquire very thor |
oughiy into the question OF who is to
blame"