§ 7. Captain ORMSBY-GOREasked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what is now the seat of the anti-Bolshevik Government of the Ukraine; whether Odessa and Kieff are still in the hands of troops of the Bolshevik Government of Moscow; and whether any military ormaterial assistance is being given by any of the Allies to the Ukrainians who are resisting the attempted conquest of Ukraine by the Bolshevik Government of Moscow?
Mr. HARMSWORTHWe have no in formation as to the present whereabouts of the anti-Bolshevik Government of the Ukraine.
The reply to the second part of the hon. and gallant Member's question is in the affirmative, and to the third part that the Allied forces, who are under the command of the French military authorities in South Russia, have been giving such assistance as was possible to those Russian units who were prepared to co-operate with them in resisting the forces of the Russian Soviet Government. These units include a certain proportion of troops drawn from Ukrainian sources.
§ Captain ORMSBY-GOREHave all the Allied forces been withdrawn from the Ukraine, or am I to understand that French troops are still there?
§ Mr. RENDALLCan the hon. Gentleman tell us whether the news to-day that the Bolshevists have left Petrograd is true?