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<p>[Page 25]</p><p>but among all landed gentry. The dictators are also trying to push through totally communist ideas and there seems to be general chaos as the newly empowered mob appropriates whatever catches their eyes. All army units are in complete disarray as the soldiers run off to plunder and loot, and to seize their share of land in the proposed redistribution of crown land and other big estates. Officers of all ranks have been decommissioned, and the Bolsheviks are trying to form an army of their own under the command of a Sergeant Krylenko. All these leaders, according to news reports, are Jews in reality and their real names are Lenin - Lederblum [?], Trotsky - Brannstein, and Krylenko - Aaron Abram. As a consequence of such unrest, our troops are pushing forward. Even though it is winter there, they have occupied almost all of Estland, Linland [? = the first letter is definitely not an F, as in Finland, but the diarist could have erred], Oesel, Moen and even the Aaland Islands, probably chiefly in order to come to an agreement with the present holders of office. Negotiations have been scheduled and a week ago, the Russians have telegraphed invitations to all war parties</p>