File No. 763.72119/1174

The Minister in Rumania ( Vopicka ) to the Secretary of State 1

[Telegram]

18. General Shcherbachev, chief of the Ukrainian army, informed the Allied ministers confidentially this morning that Ukrainia will sign separate peace with the Central powers within ten days on very favorable terms. The Allied ministers will endeavor to have signing of such a peace postponed on the ground that if Bolsheviks conclude peace for north Russia such a peace would be useless to the Ukrainians and would not be considered a friendly act towards the Allied powers.

Your 128, January 21, 12 noon.2 Missing telegrams repeated immediately. Your telegrams 107 to 110 inclusive, 114 to 117 inclusive, 119 to 127 inclusive, missing.

Vopicka
  1. Sent via the Embassy in France (No. 3094).
  2. Not printed.