A COSSACK STATE
GERMANY AND THE UKRAINE UNION AGAINST RUSSIA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 20, 1 p.m.) PRAGUE, Feb. 19 Semi-official Slovak sources reveal that General Popov, former Chief of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and his aide-de-camp, Captain Sergie Federov, recently discussed with German Government officials in Berlin the formation of a Ukrainian Federation. It is understood that an agreement was reached on four points:
(1) All anti-Gommunist Cossacks to be gathered under unified control, and steps taken for the eventual creation of a Cossack Army;
(2) The creation of an independent Cossack State, to be named ” The Federation of the South-east," comprising an area of 194,000 square miles, with a population of 15,000,000.
(3) Treaties of friendship between the Federation and all its neighbours.
(4) Precautionary measure! against any attacks upon the new State by Russia.
Upon his return to Prague General Federov claimed that the Federation would make it possible for the Reich to shelve for the time being its plans to create a Greater Ukraine, which obviously at present could not be realised without a conflict with tlie Soviet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20735, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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