Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20

the Ukrainian situation was more
normal ethnologically, they used these
regiments very effectively. and, at
the moment l am writing, are using
them to help the Ukrainians recon-
struct what comes nearer being
true Ukralnian state.
The way 1t came about shows the
ability of the Poles as state builders.
1t does not enter into the rights or
wrongs of the Galician Ruthenians,
but as far as the Polish Ukrainian
relationship is concerned that il not
in discussion.
On account OF the war devastation
in Poland 1t needed for this winter
much more grain than it had. If this
grain had been transported from
America it would have cost about
$3.000,000,000. But all the grain Po-
land needed, and mere, lay right next
door in the Ukraine. the only diff
Guilty being that Bolshevik armored
trains were running W. and down the
Ukrainian railroad lines, maintaining
a pretense at Bolshevik government
in the Ukraine and making it impos-
sible to get this grain
So the Poles came to an under
standing with the Ukrainians. The
Poles agreed to send their legiondaries
out into Volhynia and beyond the
Pripet marshes and occupy the rail
road centers. thereby stopping the
Bolshevik armored trains and permit
| ting the people who Inhabited the
country to get into relationship with
the Ukrainian government TO pru-
vent the move looking like q Polish
! fl INT1g I.1.t,a
movement with these Ukrainian regi-
ments previously captured, and every
| body was satisfied.
Russia Has Big Crop.
AS Russia has this year the biggest
crop it has had in thirty years it
makes the move all the more
worth the while. 1t gave Poland
friend in the Ukraine, which only
few months previously It had been
knocking about | have been with
these Polish legiondaries and | know
the spirit in which they are carrying
on along the Dnieper. 1t is an eXpe-
dition out of a novel of Sienkewiez,
They started out with a few regt-
ments, picking up volunteers as they
went, galloping cheerIully forward
over the Nolhynian steopc7 Teasing
and drinking and fightlgg, and, il
some were killed, how else does a
| fighting man expect TO end his days?
| The legiondares had wonderful
| time, and Poland is getting her sorely
needed grain as well as pleased
neighobr.
The Poles are the soldiers to use for
a work of this kind, because they do
it for the fun there is in it. They
love fighting for fighting's sake. The
old fighting tradition clings to the
Polish families of all ranks. Every
! family expects to lose son or so in
war. Poland happily never can be
modernized to the point where the
ideal in life is a time-clock Accord
ing to Poles law and order can easily
he overdone. On this account the
Poles are proving every day more
important in the European policy of
the French government which we are
tacitly supporting, and more trouble
some to the policy of the German
government, which we ought to be
watching and opposing.
Aims of French and Germans.
The French foreign office policy,
the "Quai d'Orsay politique," as l
explained in a previous article, is to
construct a chain of small states from
the Baltic to the Black sea with
Poland in the center, as the strongest
link. The German policy, that of the
Eden hotel--the seat of Germany's
unofficial military relationships to
break this line of states, or to make
them part of the corridor into Rus
STA" The German government hav-
ing just signed peace with us and
having obligations to keep quiet, cam
not officially carry on this policy, and
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man foreign office, can have moth
ing officially to do with it.
So the Eden hotel is doing it and
has shown a master cunning. 1t has
the Lithuanian army full of German
soldiers, and has small German arm
les under one name or another
throughout the aBltiC provinces.
They are in touch with the Bolshe-
Wiki, sometimes fighting them, some
times negotiating with them. 1t is
not to the interest of the Quai
dOrsay policy that they should do
either.
Here the Poles come in handy
again. Those legiondaries over in
White Russia ask nothing better
than to cut off to the north toward
Pskoff and give the Bolsheviki a
throughout the Baltic provinces.
legiondaries also, and | know how
they feel about it, The Bolsheviki
cannot stand in front of them, which
is pleasing to their vanity, for to the
individual Pole fighting the individ-
ual soldier in the red army, it is
Pole against Russian, and the Poles
love to wallop the Russians.
Not Hopeful Signs.
Therein, however, lies a danger.
The peace of Europe demands even