Berl[iner] Tagebl[att] 6 XI. "Baltische u[nd] finnische Zustände" (by Baron Woldemar von Uexküll).

The baron describes how he happily escaped from the Russian Hexenkessel; the revolution is supposedly "more terrible than the French one." In Reval terrible things are happening, the mob is burning the city, at the head of the crowd is Rednerin Frau Linda in rotem Rocke. Soldiers fired and killed about 200 people, including Linda. The baron left for Helsingfors. There too a strike from Tuesday 18/31 October.

"I was forced to remain in Helsingfors — everything was on strike, railways, telephone, all factories, dock workers, all shops, banks and businesses were closed. Thousands surged in the streets, which were pitch dark in the evenings. Yet the citizens' guard, consisting of 4000 students and organized workers, recognizable by white armbands, soon earned universal respect and sympathy. With Prussian precision they marched through