Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-06
ukraine PEASANTS REDS
BY CONSTANTLY BUSHWACNNG
FORCES; HELP POusHARMY NOW
Bitterly Hostile to Bolsheviki and Their Greatest
Interest Is to Hold the Land They Have, the Big
Estates They Have Divided and Secure Good
Price for Their Products; Are All Well Armed.

and serious uprisings in the rear. The
Ukralnian peaSantry IS interested prl-
marily in holding it's own land, plus-the
seized and divided estates. Outside of
this and fair price for their products
they have little interest. They are arm
ed and do not hesitate to protect their
property or to attack small bodies Of
troops. When the German troops in
vaded the Ukraine they had great trou-
bic, due to the attacks of the peasantry.
Hostile to Reds.
The Poles know the peaSantry are bit
terly hostile to the bolsheviki with their
small price and efforts to force the sell
ing of food and destruction of the or
dinary town markets. Due to the in
creasing poverty. the townspeople of all
classes were ousted by the soviet sys-
tenn This lack of market, plus the
constant necessity of using force to pre-
vent bolshevih raids. considerably re-
duced production, and, therefore, made
the peasant poor. The Ukrainian chief
insured peasant friendship because when
he formerly was the chief be told the
peasantry to keep the divided land. and
the Poles recognized Ukrainian inde-
pendence.
The Polish plan is yielding results,
because with the start of their offensive
outbreaks back of the bolsheviki line
occurred. In some cases the Poles
heard the noise of the firing.
Turn the Retreat
When the bolsheviki were evacuatngt
Kiev the population just east of the riv-
er was so hostile the reds were forced
to depart to the south instead of to the
northeast. On the last day the peas
ants cut the railway between Kiev and
Poltoawa. causing the abandonment Of
the last trainloads of loot.
Among the townspeople are number
of Poles. Consequently the Polska or
ganization, or Polish military organiza-
ton. secret society, had branches ev-
erywhere.
Joseph Pilsudski, young revolution
ist already twice jailed, conceived and
organized this society in Galicia in 1904
at the time of Japanese war,
when Poland hoped to regain its liberty.
The original organization primarily was
military. composed of companies, battal-
ions, and regiments. Its primary pur-
pose was the freeing of Poland by force
of arms at the first opportunity In the
following years it spread wherever there
were numbers of Poles living unwillingiy
under alien rule.
Explode Nine Bridges.
At the present time Poland politically
stands primarily for nationalism versus
internatonalism. Members of this Pol
ish society exploded nine important
bridges in the rear Of the bolsheviki
troops. Many were caught and execut-
ed. ANY Pole man or woman. suspect
ed of belonging to this society, was sure
Iy executed without fair trial, In a3-
diion. all Ukraine peasants and Polish
tOwDspeople were questioned as to what
attitude the mass of town and village
people not Polish would adopt. They
soon found these people, regardless Of
other questions were diyidable into pro-
and anti-bolsheviki.
The anti-bolshevild were in a great
majority. The ants do not care who
comes. just so the bolsheviki go. Even
the Russians with a natural antipathy
to the Poles welcomed their troops be-
cause they were chasing the bolsheviki.
The extent of the dislike of the bolshe-
Wiki is shown by the fact that eight DAYS
before the troops reached kiev the
principal bolsheviki commisary had as
sembled all working1nen in the priGpal
square to tell them the time had arrived
meet the Polish capitahstic troops then
advancing on kiey.
Stay at Home
He said the communists IN Warsaw.
Berlin Vienna and Paris would over
throw capitalistic society everywhere.
His speech was long. Others spoke
along the same line.
The crowd returned home, but instead
of preparing for departure toward the
front they stayed at home or hid else
where. However. there are enough boil
sheviki sympathizers in every town and
village to necessitate close watching. To
date nothing more serious has happened
than an occasional cutting of the tele-
graph wires at night