Page:Emile Vandervelde - Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution - tr. Jean Elmslie Henderson Findlay (1918).djvu/17



E set sail on the 7th of May 1917 from a Scottish port, bound for Russia viâ Bergen and Stockholm, and immediately we seemed to come into touch with the Russian Revolution.

There were on board representatives from all the great allied nations: six Japanese officers, a British military mission, French merchants, and a number of Russians returning from exile. The latter filled the cabins, crowded the smoking-room and the dining-room, overflowing even on to the deck, where many of them throughout that cold and rainy night of the North passed the long hours, their