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Show wm BOWL f RUSSIA EMPTY Ukrainians Are Resisting Stubbornly Seizure Tactics of Moscow KIEV, l'kranla. Jan. 31 The Ukraine hus been long known as Russia's purar bowl and flour Idn but the sufrar bowl has been empty for three or four years and now the flour and eornmea! are so low that It Is doubtful whether '.he t'kralnlans will bfltVe SDOUSh bread to carry themselves through to another harvest. The hungry folks from tho Volga famine district have invaded Uu 1 kralne b hundreds of thousands M.s .ow and Petrograd hSiVe drawn on Its bread supply to the limit of their povsor SEED GRAIN FROZEN The Ukrainians, however, are a fight- Ing, independent lot who have hfubborn- iv resisted requisition and defeated p'.an to divert their foodstuffs in largo nusii-titles nusii-titles to -ther parts "f Hussla. Those requisitions and general db-ntlsfaetlon with conditions have played 8 largo part In limiting the 1'kralnlan frod supply. Besides the snows wore ho late in i.mlng latit fall that much of the grain seed wan frozen In tli" gTOund before tho snows camo to give It protection. Consequently the Ukraine faces the possibility possi-bility of a small grain yield next year. Even an extraordinary spring sowing cannot compensate for tho unfavorable condition of the crops planted last fall. The attitude of tho Ckralne toward Moscow Is of far greater ImporlAnee. than that of all tho other so-called "federated" "feder-ated" republics because of Its great wealth and common boundaries with Poland Po-land and Rumania. Moscow apparently regards the I'kralnlan republic ns a federated fed-erated part of the government having Its headquarters In Moscow. Hut Ckralnla. proha.blv under pressuro of the Intense Ukraine nationalistic sentiment. holds that It Is quite Independent of Moscow and aspires to support diplomatic negotiations nego-tiations with European powers to obtain ob-tain recognition as an Independent nation. na-tion. MOVEMENT SUPPRESSED SI Uakovsky. the Rumanian Socialist. ejflO Is now president of the Ukrainian Socialist soviet republic, has been abl.i Oi!i Moscow's aid to suppress all the larger movements against Kueslan domination domi-nation of the Ukraine but nevertheless, the Idea of . omplotc Independence of Moscow seems to be uppermost In tho minds of the little Russians, peasants, merchants. laborers and professional oLa&ses alike. ommunlsm exists In ih- Ukraine In a mu'h diluted form. M Zlnovleff chairman chair-man of the executive committee of the Third Internationale. and other high priests of Marxism visit little Russia occasionally oc-casionally and trv to whip It Into lino with the Third Internationale and tho M. f cow program But the Ukrainians still aspire for Independence FOREIGN EXCHANGE NEW V 'RK Jan. .11 Korelgn cx-chanK'- firm Oreat Hrllain Demand $4.;,,. cables ti :k7s prance: Demand B.2Sc; cables I 10c Italv l'eniand 4 .'.T'-ji- .aides 4 .... nrigium: Demand T.sttto; cables T.SSc. liermanv I crnand .4;Sc. . abb s .',0Hc. Holland I mand 3t5.bfic, . able '.r, -n, Norwa Iomand t.". 79c. Sweden: Demand 25.35c. Denmark Demand SO.SOc. Switzerland I '.-mand IS 49a, Spain Demand 15. 19c. ilroeoe'. Demand 4 41c. Poland: Demand 03V4c. echo-Slovakia. Ieinand 1.95o Argentine: Demand 3fi.l'.'. Brail 1: Demand 12.S7c. Montreal Ouc. NEW YORK SUGAR NEW YORK. Jan. 31. The early raw sugar market was firm and unchanged on the spot at 2 l-16c cost and freight, equal to 3.67c for centrifugal The ..nlv business reported was a sale of 7U0-J bags of Cubes for Pebruary shipments at 2Hc cost and freight, equal to 3.71c for centrifugal. Raw sugar futures, aftir opening unchanged un-changed to four points lower under realizing, re-alizing, rallied on covering and commission, commis-sion, house buying. At midday prices were one point lower to five higher. The market for refined was unchanged at 5 00 to 5.10c for fine granulated In refined futures there was a sale .f Mav at G.SOc which was unchanged from the previous closing. Sugar future losed steady: approximate approxi-mate sale. fiJOo tons March I JSC Ifay 2 4 7. liil) ? I7o. Sept. 7c. |