The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-04
FEARS UKRAINE IS
 LIKE HE BALKANS
Strife Engendered Which May Require Years to
 Subdue
By Associated Press

Stanislau, Capital of West Ukraine. April 2-Failure of the interallied mission to conclude an armistice between the Ukrainians and Poles at Lemberg is at tributed by Premier Isadore Holubowitz of the Ukraine to suspicion by Ukrainian leaders that the mission was disposed to be favorable to the Poles.
 "It was due to our belief that this mis- sicn came prejudiced by Polish views, said the premier to the correspondent of the Associated Press in an interview in which he discussed the determination of the Ukrainians to fight for Lemberg to the bitter end. They did not come direct to us" continued the premier but by the way of Poland, and they stayed with us relatively only few hours. They ap- peared to regard us as bolsheviki
 ''What we want is mission coming to live among us who will see that we are a united people who may be defeated, but will die for our rights. We are not rec ognized Automatically at the Paris con ference, our diplomats are refused admit tance to France and they are unable 10 proceed to America.
 sIt is my fear that if the fighting con tinues here it will all wind up with an other Balkan situation such as that which has harassed Europe and the peoples of the Balkans for many years, and has kept these peoples poor. We regret to say that in our opinion the French fear of the Germans and the consequent willing ness to help the Poles is the cause of the inability to adjust the Lemburg oil fields dispute.
 'fWe were asked to abandon our mli- tary lines and retreat about 30 miles un- til we were clear outside of Lemburg. Even had we been willing to grant this, our soldiers would not have permitted it The truth is that the Ukrainian popula- tion extends as far as Przemsyl, but we asked only for Lemburg. It is true there are Poles in Lemburg, but all the country around is Ukrainian.
 Many lies have been told about us One of these is that we are bolsheviki This is not true. We are now fighting the bolsheviki and will continue to do so. An other lie is that we are using German money to fight the Poles. The truth is tlfat most of our money comes from East Ukraine The remainder we furnish our selves or it is obtained from the oil re- fir cry which formerly was the property of the Austrian government The capital Of the oil country is partly Jewish and Ger man. but mainly French and English.
 Most of our difficulties arise from the fact that it is unknown abroad that the Ukrainian people number nearly 4o,0o0,00C allied by blood though separated by hun dredS or years or AuStldn ana husSlai domination. Other nations do not know ttat we are prepared to perish if we must in order to assert our nationality. It is true that we have no nobility or wealthy classes, but we are purely democratic. II is true that we are largely small farm CTS without a high degree of culture, but will obtain that culture if we are per mitted to help ourselves,
 'All we ask for is our rights and thes' we will have now or, if Europe will no permit it. then it must be later. but al the expense of our blood and those of others"