GROWING GERMAN AGGRESSIVENESS IN THE UKRAINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16848, 13 May 1918, Page 5

GROWING GERMAN AGGRESSIVENESS IN THE UKRAINE.

RUSSIANS SHOW TENDENCY TO OPPOSE OPERATIONS. Eeuter. (Received 5.5 p.m.) MOSCOW. May 11. * . * A new Government, composed of Cadets and Octobrists, has ..been formed in the Ukraine, M. Oustimvitch being Premier and M. Rernatsky, formerly a member of the Kerensky Cabinet, Finance Minister. Moscow reports state that the German Ambassador .has ,■ sent .an; ultimatum to the Peoples Commissaries demanding the disarmament and disbandment of military units and the occupation of Moscow' and other cities in Great Russia] The Germans have established a rigorous censorship at Kieff. The police raided the residence of Professor Grouchevsky, president of the Central Rada, intending to arrest him'. They also attempted to arrest M Salikoviky, the Government commissary at Kieff, but both escaped. The newspapers are full of descriptions of the irruption of German soldiers into the Rada with the members and the public standing at the pistol point with their hands up. The President, M. Crushevsky, alone protested. The efforts of the Ukrainian Ministers and the Rada to secure a compromise with the 'Germans proved unavailing, the German Ambassador at Kieff replying, It is too late.". The new Ukrainian Hetman, Skoropadsky, in a manifesto, issued on assuming office, told the Ukrainians that they owed their salvation to the Central Powers, who were invincible. The manifesto does not mention peace with Russia- It is therefore assumed that the Ukraine will continue operations against Russia. Germany informed the Foreign Commissary that in view of the change of Government in Ukraine the peace delegation to Ukraine must be radically reconstituted, and Kieff, not Kursk, be the scene of pourparlers. • Australian and N.Z. (Received 5.5 p.m.) MOSCOW, May 10. The Supreme War Council has ordered resistance to German war bands trespassing across the Ukraine border. In the Don district Russian cavalry recaptured Rbstoff, and drove the Germans back 30 miles. % (Received 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 11. The Moscow correspondent of the New York Times says that protesting groups of Ukrainian Socialists were told by the German authorities that they would not restore the Rada Government. He adds that the former Grand Duke Dmitri Pavalovich actively participated in the overthrow of the Rada. The Dowager Empress Marie Feodoravana has arrived at Kieff.