The Mena weekly star., 1919-12-25
MANY ANARCHISTS SHIPPED 70 RUSSIA
Soviet Ark, with 249 Radicals Aboard. Sails Under Sealed Orders--Sym- pathizers storm Entrance to FL
 lis Island Ferry-Deliant.

New York, Dec 21-The army trans port Buford, having on board Emma more than 200 other radicals, left this port at a. m today for an unknown destination The radicals who are be- ing deported will be taken to Euro pean pert which will be made known on the opening of the captains orders when the Buford is 24 hours out of port The 249 passengers on the Ark of the Soviet expected to be landed at some far northern port giving ac- cess to soviet Russia
 Long live the revolution in Amer ica," was chanted defiantly by the motley crowd on the decks of the -steel-gray troop ship as she churned her way past the Statue of Liberty Now and then they cursed in chorus at the United States and the men who had cut short their propaganda here Not until the Buford steamed out of the Narrows, between Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth. did the din cease Over their heads, whipping in the wind, the Stars and Stripes floated from the masthead
 The autocrats of all the Russians on the transport were Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, his companion of 90 years With them them were 245 men and two women Ethel Bernstein and Dora Lipkin. None knew where they would debark, and even Capt. Hitchcock, conan der of the transport, was no better off At daybreak tomorrow Colonel Hilton, commanding the troops on board as guards. will hand the skipper his in- structions. Only a few high officials of the War and Labor Department know the ships destination.
 May Land in Finland.
 The voyage will last IS days unless it is prolonged by unfavorable weather. The presumption is that the Buford will land at Hanme, Helsing- fors, or Abo in Finland, which are connected by rail with Bielo-Osporoff on the Russian frontier.
 The transfer from Ellis Island to the Buford of the agitators who have preached death and destruction was an event unique in the annals of this nation. Seized in raids in all parts of ' for deportation. An elaborate screen of secrecy was thrown about the pre- parations for sending them away. 1t was in the darkest hours of night that an army tug drew up at the dock at the dock at the immigration station to take aboard the undesirables for the seven-mile journey down the bay to the Buford Two dozen soldiers armed ..ff inspectors carrying night sticks pa- trolled the shores of Ellis Island until the tug arrived at 5:15 a. m. The Reds were marched single-file between two lines of guards from the immigration barracks to the boat landing, each carrying his or her baggage.
 Others Who Should Go.
 New York. Dec 22. Led by wo- man who declared her husband had been deported to Russia yesterday on the soviet ark" Buford mob of 150 reds" today attacked the entrance to the Ellis Island ferry in an effort to reach fellow radicals still awaiting de- portation. 4 riot call was turned in be- fore the police could restore order
 The mob formed around the gate- keepers cage several minutes before the attack was launcheu. Inen the WO- man, proclaiming herself an anarchist, stepped forward and drove both fists through the glass window
 As pieces of glass crashed to the pavement, the crowd began chanting the "lnternationale." Down with this dirty. rotten government" screamed the woman. They have taken my husband and are taking the husbands. brothers and fathers of us all"
 Unable to quiet the mob. Asa Mitch- ell, superintendent of the barge office located at the tip of Manhattan, turn ed in call for police reserves
 Tine mob turned on tine first police man to answer the call and beat him but when more reserves with drawn clubs and detail of coast guards with fixed bayonets arrived, the crowd sud denly became docile. Members of it explained they had come to inquire about relatives who had sailed on the Buford.
 1 "A young Russian woman, who gave the name of Clara Books. was arrest ed as the ringleader.