Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-02

Ukraine which is a rich land and put our people to work growing wheat for Russia and also for Europe.
 General Pavlenko is in command of the Ukranian troops which have been fighting the Poles in the vicinity of Lemberg. He is small wiry Russian with eyes deeply set-a courteous, quiet but eloquent conversar;onalist. It is evident that he is liked by his staff, which is housed in a former school building in Chodoroff. His task of hold ing together and organizing the West Ukranian army is an arduous one but apparently does not weigh upon him too heavily.
 The Ukranians were the first peo- pie to begin fighting bolsheyism,' re- stunned the General. This was long before the Allies thought of doing so yet such is the irony of circumstances that the Allies call us Polsheviki
 The people Of Russian Ukraine had for time q touch of the Bolshevik disease but they now are cured of it as they are essentially small farmers and property owners. 1 speak of Bol- shevism as a disease since it must be regarded in that sense, like the inffu enza. It presents an attractive pro- position to poor people harassed by a long war with special hopes for the future.
 If the Allies visit Us in an open minded spirit they will realize that. we too are fighting Bolshvism. If they will determine to help in this great f5ilt morally and also with medicines ; and munitions we will be able to re- | take Greater Ukraine from Moscow which is bent upon holding all the territory that previously was Russian. -.I would not advise invasion of Rus sia by anybody as conditions will right | themselves where this mental disease 1 has rup it's course, There is now no danger from Bolsheyism in West Uk- | raine Gas Eastern Galicia is now call 1 ed) as there are relatively few factory | workers. Peasants are never Bolshe- 1 yik -r1.-
 We have been blamed for the bonn 1 bardment of Lemberg 1t IS true, but we
 have no intention of doing other than destroying the Polish Armys stores
 and the railway station. The Poles
 were seizing it as military post and
 we were compelled to fire on it but 1 this must not be repeated as we realize
 that the Poles are using this fact as g weapon to advertise us as Bolshevil<i Nevertheless. it is fight to deatf i in which we are engaged. Our soldiers after four years of war, and ready again to fight because they are mostly
 sons of peasants and ordinary people who always have regarded the Poles as aristocratic oppressors. The whole l Ukrainian people now is engaged in z
 fight to obtain independence. They
 may be defeated by the Poles and bJ the Bolsheviki but they prefer deatt to submission.
 "The Russian Ukraine attempted tt
 obtain autonomy first from the Dutcl then from Premier Kerensky but failed Then it asked Lenine (Premier of tht
 Russian Soviet government for per mission to become one of the federated states of Russia; but Lenine rejected
 the plan.
 Now we want separation and com
 plete independence. Our efforts toward
 this end for the past IS months hay,
 been defeated partly by German oc
 cupation and partly be General Shoro padsky to whom rallied the Russian
 refugee army officers and land owners Now it is the Bolsheviki who are tn,
 invaders"
 After suggesting that the Allies ait ' the Ukrainians to fight the Bolsheviki
 General Pavlenko added: Whether tn,
 Ukraine will gravitate to Russian in ; fiuence again possibly will be deter mined by what becomes of the Bolshi
 vil1 government. However, our nat ional spirit and hopes which before tn