friends, a group of about a score of my Red
friends, led by Comrade Fineberg, gave me a
cheer and shouted messages of greeting to
British comrades. It was nice to hear in that
country and under such conditions the familiar
clarion greeting “ Boots ” and “ Spurs.”
Our troubles began at Raijoki Station. I took rail tickets for Helsingfors. Then suddenly an officer appeared in order to search us and our luggage. After this, the soldiers were told they must go to Terijoki for quarantine, but I could travel on. So once more we parted, I intending to see the British Minister at Helsingfors and get my friends out. Alas for poor me ! I only got about twenty miles on the road when four bright looking youths appeared. They were fully armed and accompanied by an officious sort of officer person, who ordered me to alight. After some minutes, during which I tried to make a fuss, I got out, to be told that they were instructed to take me to quarantine. As is usual with the most Christian person as well as with pagans like myself, my temper rose, and for some time I sat in a cloak-room refusing to move. I knew the quarantine station was a good mile and a half or so away and did not intend to walk. This at last dawned on my captors, and they produced a droshky, into which four of us and my bags tumbled, and off we went, arriving at the camp about twelve midnight.
