Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-16
UKRAINE |SB|TTER
OVER GERMAN ACTS
Agitation Against Teutons
Unchecked
Battles Are Forecast.
FARM SITUATION CHAOTIC

ny tne AhsociAte0 ffeee.
LONDON. May 16.-Anti-Germana g-
itation in the Ukraine continues un-
checked. says a Vienna dispatch to
the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin and
transmitted from Tho Hague by the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
Ckrainian newspapers attack Ger
many bitterly and accuse her OF using
the Russian warships at sebastopol
for the purpose OF seizing coal and
Ukrainian merchantmen. 1t Is re-
ported that the Germans have mined
the Strait Of Yenkale. closing the
passage into the Sea Of Azov.
Serious trouble. 1t Is added, has oo-
Cured at Nikolsiev. where the Ger
mans have dismissed the city council.
Russ-Finn Battles Likely.
STOCKHOLM, May 15-According
to the Tidningen. further fighting be-
tween the Russians and Firms IS In
prospect. 1t reports that the frontier
IS blocked with masses OF troops and
predicts a heavy battle.
incomplete auvices received recently
indicate that the Finnish government
with which Germany Is cooperating has
cleared Finland OF the red guard. The
r
invasion Of Russia for the purpose OF
creating o Greater Finland by annex
ing Russian Kareiia. which embraces
parts Of the governments OF Petrograd,
Olonets aad Archzngel. extending UP to
the White sea-
Semenoff seizes Karimskaya.
HARDIN, Saturday. May 1.-THE
Karimskaya railway junction has been
captured by Gen. Semenon, the anu
bolshevik leader.
Military railroad engineers have been
dispatched to restore the railway in the
rear of tho retreating bolshevik.
The people in whole districts OF ST.
IBERIA are dying Of starvation owing TO
the lack Of transportation OF foodstuns.
Half of Land to Be Titled.
sAMARA, Russia. Thursday. May =
Much Of the fertile land OF European
Russia will go uncuitivated this year.
Less than half the land. which has in
times past produced large quantities OF
grain and other crops. now remaining In
control of the soviet government viii De
titled, owing to the shortage on seeo'
horses and implements and the unset.
tied condition bought about by the hand
division.
The correspondent has made Q tour
Of the governments of SamAra, 6im-
brisk. Moscow. Penza, Tambov. Rya-
Fan and Saratov, the chief remaining
wheat-producing districts. The raa-
jority Of the large estates and the
ed and divided among the poor peas
ants by local land committees.
Horses, cattle and implements have
also been divided and scattered. The
distribution of seed has been un-
equal. because of the large reQuisi-
hvr hA
ment in some sections to feed the
cities. and because also OF the disor-
ganized transportation.
PEASANTS Are Hostile.
Peasants have hidden their seed
and resisted the food committees.
Many districts. consequently. have
seed potatoes, wheat, barley and oats.
but the peasants are not willing to
disposition of the land and the con-
troll Of the harvested crop. The hos
tility of the farmers toward city
workers generally Is shown by their
unwillingness to surrender grain to
the food committees.
this week in central Russia. and in
most OF the districts less than half
the grain land has been plowed. The
exodus Of city jewellers into the grain
sections has been SO large that bread
stuffs are extremely scarce, even in
grain centers like SamarA, where
bread sells for rubles per pound.
The price gradually rises approaching
Moscow. and at some towns located in
the grain states children gather at the
incoming trains and beg bread from
the passengers.
The land division has caused less
bloodshed than was expected. although
in some sections rich landlords have
been killed and their mansions pillaged
and burned.