The Cordele dispatch., 1919-05-16
NEWSPAPER MAN
HAS KEYS TO RUSSIA
PLENTY OF FOOD IN uKRAINIA

Vienna, April z,-(Correspondence
of The Associated Press THAT Po-
land and the Ukraine are the keys to
Russia is the conviction of The AS
sociated Press correspondent who
has Just travelled over those two counl
tries and interviewed dozens OF the
There has been more Than action
concerning Poland as a barrier to
Bolshevism but there has been not
only no talk but some unfavorable
action regarding the Ukraine which
country apparently is almost un-
known to a majority OF the people in
the Entente countries. The Ukraine
has been visited in a casual manner
by strolling officer and missions. A
single American officer who attempt
ed to visit Kiev, capital of the Rus
sian Ukraine, was prevented by the
!; French at Odessa, according to the
statement made to The Associated
Press by General Petlura at his rail
way car capital on siding at
| Proskurov
There is plenty of food in the Ull
raine but Boishevism obtained the
upper hand t;:ere owing to use of
money from Moscow, agitation and
the buying of troops which otherwise
I would have been faithful. What is
now important is that it should be
understood that there really is ma
tional movement i'll the Ukraine,
and that this movement with little
help, Allied recognition and moral
support, would m&nfully continue the
struggle against the Moscow invaders
and aid in preventing the invasion of
Rumania, thus closing the Bolshevik
corridor to Budapest
The pathetic part of the whole
business is that the Poles and others
who it is felt here should be coOperat-
ing whit he Ukrainians spend their
time in describing the U;Ikrainians
as led by group of ad-
venturers, particularly with regard
to the Ukrainian claim to the oil
fields of Galicia. The versiC
The Associated Press correspondent
by an American oil man who has
spent 25 years in these countries is
that the Polish refinery owners, back
ed up by Austrian capital. first at
tempted to seize the Oil fields and
this led up to an attempt by the West
Ukrains or RutIfenians to hold these
fields and to take Lembery.
The Associated Press correspon-
dent apparently was the first person
from the outside to visit the Ukraine
seeking unbiased information. The
people who occupy what they term
West Ukraine, the old East Austrian
Galician province certainly are not
led by adventurers. For the most
due to lack of enterprise in the form
er Russian Empire They are also un-
lettered. They would be far poorer if
the oil field were lost to them. But
they have the spirit of theirrace and
: desire to be their own masters like
the Poles and the Czechs. The latter
have understood this fact
Neither are the people of Russian
or Greater Ukraine political adven
turers. They are related by race with
those of old Eastern Calicia at least
as far eastward as Poltava. AS soon
as the correspondent passed from
Lembery into the Ukkrkainian army
it was APPARENT that these men were
: a different race from the Poles; pos.
sibly less cultured but vigorous
healthy-minded men determined to
hold their soil. AS the correspondent
; went eastward he found more Rus
sian types and manners but many of
the people of the Greater Russia as
daylight is firm darkness This is part
cularly true of the soldiers who came
from the POltava districts. They are
manly, intelligent, food fighters kind
hearted open-handed and keenly
aware of the wealth and possibilities
of their new country and its wonder
full black soil which has given the
Ukraine the proud name of "Europe's
canary"