[February, after 4, 1905. Geneva.]

An interesting account of the St. Petersburg events on the eve of Bloody Sunday is given by the correspondent of the English newspaper *The Daily Telegraph*:

"St. Petersburg. Saturday, January 8th, evening. — Russia is experiencing the birth pangs of revolution. The external enemy is forgotten, the course of the war arouses no one's interest. The dam of administrative obstacles has suddenly sprung a leak, and the waves of the democratic movement are rushing forth, sweeping away age-old embankments. The police themselves have turned into enthusiastic spectators, who look with curiosity or sympathy at the turbulent crowds of workers, listen to the revolutionary speeches delivered before these crowds by the leaders, and do not even think of dispersing, arresting, and beating as before...*"

* Here the manuscript breaks off; at the top of the manuscript Lenin wrote in pencil: "petit"; the text of the manuscript is crossed out in pencil; it is located on the reverse of a record of the plan for the contents of No. 5 of *Vperyod* (see above, p. 45). *Ed.*