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Show Bolsheviki Have Fieet in Baltic That the Bolsheviki have a fleet op erating actively in tho Black Sea is 'indicated hy a protest made to the French high command by the Ukrainian Ukrain-ian legation at Constantinople. The text of this protest, which com-, com-, plains of the placing of Hussian flags on Ukrainian ships by the French high 1 command, has just been received by I . . the Ukrainian national committee ol the United States The French flee: in the Black Seat under the command Vice-Admiral Amet includes a number num-ber of Ukrainian vessels which wi re loaned to t he French naval forces by an agreement between Vice-Admiral Amet and the Ukrainian minister. M. Soukovine, made November 26. 1918. Until recently the ships flew the blue and gold emblem of the Ukrainian republic. re-public. A short time ago. however, the white, blue and red flag of Russia Rus-sia appeared at ihe mastheads. After reciting the terms of the agreement agree-ment made in the name of the French and Ukrainian governments, and the names of the vessels loaned to the French the communication of the vessels loaned to the French, the communication com-munication of the Ukrainian legation demands that: "1. The Ukrainian ships given td the disposition of the frYench high command continue to remain under thn orders of the said command and un-u un-u i Un French flag, pending their return re-turn lo the government of Ukraine, at, the same time living the Ukrainian "2. The Ukrainian ships be used for H the transportation of Ukrainians in their repatriation into Ukraine and for the transportation of war materials " The protest concludes by saying: "These considerations and this re-quest re-quest are prompted by the necessity of 1 obtaining lor the government of tb" 1 Republic of Ukraine ffective help 1 against the Rns-ian Bolsheviki on the I Black Sea. this, of course, being the object of the loan of the Ukrainian 1 .-bips to the French high naval com- 1 mand." |