The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-10
UKRAINE
 POLAND KEYS TO RUSSIA

VIENNA, May 15 Correspondence of the Associated Press).-That Pc. land and the Ukraine are the keys to Russia is the conviction of The Asso- ciated Press correspondent who has just travelled over those two countries and interviewed dozens ofthe highest officers, officials and citizens.
 There has been more talk than ac- tion concerning Poland as barrier to Bolshevism but there has been not only no talk but some unfavorable ac- tion regarding the Ukraine which country apparently is almost unknown to a majority of the people in the entente countries. The Ukraine has been visited in a casual manner by strolling officers and missions. A single American officer who attempted to visit Kiev, capital of the Russian Ukraine, was prevented by the French at Odessa, according to the statement made to the Associated Press by Gen. eral Petlura at his railway car capital on siding at Proskurov.
 There is plenty of food in the Ukraine but Bolshevism obtained the upper hand there owing to use of money from Moscow, agitation and the buying of troops which otherwise would have been faithful. What is now important is that it should be understood that there really is a na- tional movement in the Ukraine, and that this movement with a little help allied recognition and moral support would manfully 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 busi- ness is that the Poles and others who it is felt here should be cooperating with the Ukranians spend their time in describing the Ukrainians as led by group of adventurers, particularly with regard to the Ukrainian claim to the old fields of Galicia. The version told to the Associated Press cores pondent by an American oilman who has spent 25 years in these countries is that the Polish refinery owners, backed up by Austrian capital, first attempted to seize the oil fields and this led up to an attempt by the West Ukrainians or Ruthenians to hold these fields and to take Lemberg.
 The Associated Press correspondent apparently was the first person from the outside to visit the Ukraine seek ing unbiased information. The people who occupy what they term West Ukraine, the old East Austrian Galic- ian province, certainly are not led by adventurers. For the most part they are poor which is possibly due to lack of enterprise in the former Russian empire They are also unlettered They would be far poorer if the oil fields were lost to them. But they have the spirit of their race and desire to be their own masters like the Poles and the Czechs. The latter have under stood this fact.
 Neither are the people of Russian or Greater Ukraine political adven- lures. They are related by race with those of old Eastern Galicia at least as far eastward as Poltava. Soon as the correspondent passed from Lem berg into the Ukranian army it was apparent that these men were diff ferent race from the Poles; possibly less cultured but vigorous, healthy minded men determined to hold their soil. As the correspondent went east ward he found more Russian types and manners but many of the people of the Greater Ukraine are as different from those of Greater Russia as daylight is from darkness. This is particularly true of the soldiers who came from the Poltava districts. They are manly, intelligent, good fighters, kind-hearted, open-handed and keenly aware of the wealth and possibilities of their new country and it's wonderful black soil which has given the Ukraine the proud name of "Europe's granary."
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