Disorder in the Ukraine?

So many scare-stories of revolts in the Ukraine have come of late from neighboring Rumanian sources that last week U. S. staff correspondents were despatched to learn the truth. These gentry, having prowled gingerly up and down the Rumanian side of the Russo-Rumanian frontier, and having interviewed numerous escaped Russians, reported with conviction that:

1) Sporadic insurrections have occurred throughout the Southern Ukraine since early September, resulting in the loss of not less than 4,000 lives.

2) The insurrectionists, peasants & factory workers, captured at one time the large towns of Tiraspol, Mogilev, Kamenetz and Podeski (where "all loyal troops were massacred and the revolutionist flag was flown").

3) The various local insurrections were not concerted, although they sprang up coincidentally. The peasantry revolted against extortionate tax gathering by armed Soviet agents; but city-insurrectionists rose because of oppressive government by the local Soviets (committees).

4) The chief centres of insurrection had all surrendered, recently, to troops sent by the Soviet Government at Moscow.

During the week the Soviet press bureau denounced all reports of uprisings in the Ukraine as "barefaced lies"; and the Moscow branch of the great Jewish charitable organization Agrojoint declared that its agents throughout the territory in question have reported no revolutionary disturbance whatsoever.