The enemy treaty with the Ukraine provides for the cession
to that Republic, of the south-eastern corner of Russian Poland, and other territory, with an area of about ten thousand square miles, which is now in enemy occupation. The Poles are protesting violently against this new partition of their country. Eastern Galicia, which is inhabited, like the Ukraine, mainly by Ruthenians or Little Russians, is not ceded to the Republic. The principle of the self-determination of peoples, to which the enemy statesmen paid lip-service at Brest-Litovsk in December, evidently "does' not apply on this side of the old Russian.frontier. It should be added that the British Government do not consider themselves bound to recognize the Ukraine Peace Treaty. Their attitude towards the Russian collapse has not yet been defined.
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