It is important to record that at Brest-Litovsk the independence
of the Ukraine was recognized both by the Petrograd Anarchists and by the enemy. In other respects the Russian domestic situation is still confused and obscure.- Fighting still continues between the Anarchists and the Oossaoka in the South. The mutinous sailors at Sebastopol have murdered sixty of their officers and sacked the team of KW& Kryletko, the Anarchist Commander-in-Chief, has appealed to the workmen's "Red Guards" to form a- new volunteer army, "under the most rigorous discipline," to fight Germany, France, and Great Britain—a proposal which illustrates the meet state of mind. The remnant of the old Army on the frontier is literally starving, and the Anarehists have appealed to the peasants to send bread to the troops. The Rumanian Minster' and his staff at Petrograd were arrested, apparently because the Rumanian Government arrested some Anarchist agitators. Then Lenin sent an ultimatum, in the old Imperialist style, to Rumania. Her only hope of safety now rests with the Ukraine Government, which still maintains an army under one of the old commanders and preseives some kind of order within its sphere.
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