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Show ENTENTE MUST COMETORESCIIE I Head of Ukraine Republic Sees Need of Immediate Aid, or Disaster Will Follow. . BROSKUROV, Ukraine. Wednesday, April 2. (By the Associated Press) JlH "The Miles will be in the position of Pontius Pilate washing his hands If I tin y do not come to our rescue," was i statement made to the Associated j Pres.- today bv Simon Petlura, military I ,n i t lil head of the Ukranian republic, re-public, a man to see whom the cor- I pondent had journeyed for nearly two weeks over bridgeless rivers, on Blow trklnd, in automobiles, afoot and j wagon. Simon Pftlura has had many epithets epi-thets applied 16 him. of which few are j favorable. He IS, however, generally regarded as a mysterious person who Is usually a fugitive and is looked upon as something between a Mexican i bandll and a .Moscow convict. He is known by reputation in a vague way throughout middle Europe as the man llH v. ho h is bu ' ded In holding a dlffi- j cult position with surprising tenacity for the past year, or more. He has I enjoved the same class of enemies as rosepb Pilsudski, the Polish military r . in uunten-'d before the latter I became better known. y IH rn i |