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Show HUNGER CONQUERS WARLIKE PEASANTS I KIEV, April 20. (By the Assoclat-' ed Press;) The rl h I kr.tlne. the j home of wheat and sugar, bandits and ' hard-working, stubborn peasants. Is l las) Qtliel This vigorous people has heen conQUerdtl, temporarily, not by the Red army so much as by hunger. All the Ukraine wants now i is food and quiet. The Ukraine lens had 15 govern- I ments since October, 1017. It has "en bat I i.gr.u ml for Communists i N'atlonallsts and Czarlsts and Poles. ! followers of Petlura the Fkntlne Na-I ! tlonallst, and nil manner of men and I parties. The tragedy and ruin of Russia's i revolutions Is best seen In the I k-; k-; ralne. Its great farms have been laid1 low. Its rich lands are lying fallow and going to waste. Its fine railway systems have been' ! shot to pieces. Its bridges havo been blown up It has been damaged more than any other part of Russia In this former land of plenty do;:-' ens and dozens of dead bodies are' dropped off at each railway station, dead from hunger or typhus. |