Show M LACK OF FOOD FROM UKRAINE WORRIES HUNS HUNS' I Peasants Hoard J-Ioard Their Grain I and German Control t tA A Avails Little Uy By Washington a 23 Confidential 3 information from froni Russia and Germany to the United States government shows that Germany is greatly disturbed over ovet the lie failure to Jet get any appreciable I quantity of food supplies from Crom the Ukraine The political situation Is said to J have vc been seriously complicated I by the I fact that in iii the tho tho Ukraine the lie German Influence is allied with the lie Rationalist Rational 1st p pa rt wh which ich iH JH the this bi bitter t tel foe of the Bolshevik part party III In the thc remainder e or of HI Russia except In Finland the German Influence ha has been sympathetic with wilh the lie I In Finland it is allied with the anti anti- soviet jno movement t Much of or of this Information has line hen been laid before President ent Wilson rind and hits has had bad Its bearing on op his hl policy with re e respect to aid for Russia Hussla It Jt I li is shown hown hilt the Nationalist Lib b- b jeral eral ral leader in the German J Dr has lias demanded that t officials of ot- be brought from roni I Kiev lev to c ex explain explain ex- ex plain the lie situation I Tho The food supply prom promised by br the Ukraine had not sept sent ent American lu estl investigators tors report report- that included In the this Ukraine now noi In iii the lie possession of G Germany Iman Is 15 about 48 acres acrel of or cultivated Jand though h only about a third was planted to grain last year car rho The crop is estimated at nt about S.- S. tone toils of oC whIch Z Ij pet per cent hn ha has been used II in home consumption ever most of or this Is fR held by ity peasants in iii small villages es far tar from the rail rall- wan The peasants hoard In lh grain and cattle as all a miser hoards gold It ItIs ItIs Is their theil visible proof prone of wraith A j Ukrainian peasant It If he be rich Is wheat al rich I Representatives A of ot a large American n house boils's d dunlin ding lIn In n agricultural ments e estimates that hint there is only about tons toilS immediately available ble lle and that tint even en that hat quantity cannot cannot can can- not nol be Je mo C moved because because of of oC the breakdown break break- down of or the lie transportation Mp ln The Ukraine IB is politically only an nn annex nunc Ii to Germany but bUl economically It ItI ItIs ItIs Is I so o far Car of little value alue and shows no tie s' s signs n of so o becoming during tho the next cal CHI H It Is really rc a drain on the central con cen tr trai 1 power for fol or thc they must maintain armies there ther to keep It In submission |