  We show that the predicted hyperon masses in the topological soliton model
are very sensitive to the value of the gluon condensate parameter that appears
when the scale invariance and trace anomaly of QCD are taken into account by
introduction of a dilaton field. This contrasts with the insensitivity of the
soliton properties to the dilaton coupling. In order that the predicted strange
and charmed hyperon spectra agree with the empirical ones the gluon condensate
parameter has to be about (400 MeV)$^4$, which agrees with the result obtained
from QCD sum rules. This implies that the bag formed by the scalar field must
be very shallow.
