Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1919-12-26
SHIP CARRYING DEpoR7EES SAILS.


The United States army transport
Buford-ark of the sovcit-sailed
from New York before dawn OH
Dec. 21st with cargo of anarch-
lists, communists and radicals ban
ned from America for conSpiring
against its government. The ships
destination was hidden in sealed
orders but the 249 passengers it
carried expect to be landed at some
far northern port, giving access to
soviet Russia.
Long live the revolution in
America" was chantcd defiantly by
the motley crowd on the decks Of
the steel gray troop ship as she
churncd 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 pro-
paganda here. Not until the Buford
steamed out of the Narrows be-
tween Forts Hamilton and Wads-
worth did the din cease. Over
their heads, whipping the wind the
Stars and Stripes iloatcd from the
masthead.
The autocrats Of all the Russians
on the transport were Alexander
Bcrkman and Emma Goldman, his
boon companion for thirty years.
With them were 245 men and wo-
Iuen--Ethel Bernstein and Dor,
Lipkin. None knew where they
would debark and even Captain &.
A. Hitchcock, commander of the
veteran transport was no better off.
At daybreak on the 21st Col. Hill
ton, commanding the troops OH
board as guards, will hand the skip
per his instructions. Only a few
high officials of the war and labor
departments know the ships dcs-
iination.
The voyage will last eighteen days
unless it is prolonged by unfavor-
able weather. The presumption is
that the Buford will land at Hangc,
Helsingfors or Abo in Finland,
which are connected by rail with
Bielo-OsporoT on the Russians
frontier. 1t was intimatcd in ofIici-
al quarters that arrangements have
been made with the Finish govern
ment to permit the passage of the
Russians through that country.
The transfer from Ellis Island 10
the Buford of the agitators who
have preached death and destruc-
lion was an event unique in the an
nails of the nation. Seized in raids
in all parts of the country they were
mobliiZed at Ellis Island for de-
portation. 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 immigration sta
tlon to take aboard the undesir-
abieS for the seven mile journey
down the bay to the Buford. Two
dozen soldiers armed with rifles
and many immigration inspectors
carrying night sticks patrolled the
shores of Ellis Island until the tug
arrived at 5:16 a. III. The reds were
marched single file between two
lines Of guards from the inmigra-
lion barracks to the boat landing,
each carrying his or her baggage.
a score of agents of the Depart
ment OF Justice circulated among
the Russians waiting to begin their
Iong Journey These agents and the
soldier guards went on board the
lug with the deporters and took
them to the transport.
While all the anarchists had pro-
tessed JOY at the thought of return
ing TO Russia few of them wept
and most Of them seemed down
east as they stepped on board the
Tug for the grim journey through
The darkness Of the harbor to The
troop ship.
Good bye, America" sobbed
MISS Bernstein as the tug plowcd
past the Statue of Liberty with her
lghted torch held proudly aloft.
ne girl was leaving behind Samuel
Lipman. her fiance, facing twenty
year term in the Atlanta peniten-
nary for violating the espionage
law.
Alexander Bcrkman was defiant
10 the last and threatened secret
service men as he stepped from The
soil from the United States.
Were coming back and we'll
get you" he ,muttcred, embellish-
ing his statements with curses.
10 hell with America" came in
aeep bass voices from the anarch-
ISIS tug as it passed a boat crowded
with more department of Justice
men; The chant of Long live the
revolution in The United States"
was also heard