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Show GERMANS DEMAND UKRAINIANWHEAT Serious Dispute Over Call for 85 Per Cent of Russ Foodstuffs. ODESSA RECAPTURED Bolshevik Ukrainian Rada Refuses Re-fuses to Endorse Peace Treaty With Central Powers. LONDON, March 27. A serious dispute dis-pute has arisen between the Ukraine and Germany over Germany's demand that she be given S5 per cent of the Ukrainian wheat, according to a telegram tele-gram received in Petrograd from Kiev and forwarded by Reuters limited. Germany also demanded that she be given a large percentage of other food-Stuffs food-Stuffs not needed by the population of the Ukraine The telegram adds that there are dis-aontions dis-aontions in the Ukrainian cabinet, which is divided for and against the German demands. Odessa Is Recaptured. Odessa has been recaptured by the soviet and Ukranian troops after a bloody battle in which naval forces took part, according to a Moscow dispatch dis-patch from .the semi-official Russian news agency. A now law providing for general compulsory military instruction will be published by the Bolshevik government govern-ment in a few days, an Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph dispatch from Moscow says. Tho instruction will be given in the schools, factories and country districts. Rada Refuses to Endorse Treaty. MOSCOW. Monday, March 25. (By the Associated Press.) The Bolshevik Bolshe-vik Ukranian rada, which fled from lev to Kharkov before the Germans, is now at Ekaterinoslav, where It has adopted resolutions refusing to endorse en-dorse the peace treaty between Germany Ger-many and the Ukraine, unless the central cen-tral powers withdraw all troops from the Ukraine. The rada decided to dp-pose dp-pose the central powers by means of. armed forces, strikes and boycotts. |