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communications: Six Russian soldiers have searched an office in Helsingfors, arrested two persons and put them in prison. Cause: a secret—and false—denouncement for having stored weapons.—At Viborg, Cossacks there garrisoned have taken offence at a newspaper notice, prevented the paper from appearing, threatened to arrest and flog the editors.—A drunken marine soldier has thrown paving-stones through the windows of a tram-car in Helsingfors.—A Russian sentry has shot a young Finn who had not succeeded in stopping his runaway horse in time.—Russian soldiers have arrested two persons in a villa suburb of Helsingfors—cause unknown.
2nd November. Drunken soldiers make a scene at Tammerfors station which delays the train two hours.—Twenty soldiers force their way into the editorial offices the Kaskö Tidning and make a search of the house. Cause: a woman has said to a soldier that there were weapons in the yard. The search was without results.—A young girl has been assaulted by two soldiers.—Count Armfelt at Åminnegård has been visited by seven armed marine soldiers who arrived in a motor-car, over-powered a sentry-post and tried to force their way into the main building to "murder and rob," as they said themselves. They, however, retired when they saw that the house was guarded.—At a factory in the up-country the parish constable and two policemen come to fetch a suspected individual for examination. This excites the displeasure of the working-men, who arrest the parish constable and the policemen. They are ordered not to show themselves on the premises of the factory in future.—The council of soldiers at Viborg forbids the appearance of the paper which has excited its displeasure "while the war lasts" and threatens violence.—Finland's Procurator addresses a communication to the Governor-General with the request that the Russian military, totally
