Prosperity and victory in 1915: an official New Year's postcard of the Bavarian Red Cross, with a message dated December 31, 1914, postmarked January 1, 1915.
Heil und Sieg unsern Waffen im Jahre 1915.MINNIWIRTHReverse:Offizielle Neujahrs-Postkarte des Bayerischen Roten KreuzesOfficial New Year's Card of the Bavarian Red Crossmessage dated December 31, 1914, postmarked January 1, 1915
"A railway strike has dislocated rail-transport throughout Russia. Finland has proclaimed herself a republic. Strikes and riots are still rampant, while famine is augmenting the general hardship. At supper there was a pessimistic feeling among us that our Red Cross Otryad was slowly but surely closing down. Alas for our hopes and ambitions! Alas! for poor, suffering Russia."
Excerpt from the entry for October 10, (September 27, Old Style), 1917 from the diary of Florence Farmborough, an English nurse serving with the Russian Red Cross. Farmborough's unit was then in Romania where the Russians had participated in a Romanian offensive until being ordered on July 25 by Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky to stop all offensive action. The failure of Russia's July 1 offensive was a further step in the collapse of Russian society, the war effort, and the Provisional Government. Some of Farmborough's colleagues in her Otryad (Отряд), her squad, had already left when she was writing. The province of Finland was following Kerensky's proclamation of a Russian republic.
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, page 320, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
1917-10-10, 1917, October, Finland, strike, famine, food shortage, Red Cross, Finland
