The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-22
ELLIS ISLAND
FERRY ENTRANCE
sT0RME D BY REDS
Mob Seeks to Reach Radicals
Awaiting Deportation
LED BY WOMAN ANARCHIST
Leader Declares "Dirty, Rotten Gov
ernment" le Exilna Husbands,
Brothers and Fathers
LED BY WOMAN ANARCHIST

New York, Dec. 22,-Led by wo-
man who declared that her husband
had been deported to Russia on the
transport Buford, mob of l50 Reds
attacked the entrance to Ellis Island
ferry this morning in an effort to reach
fellow radicals awaiting deportation.
a riot call was turned in and the
police finally succeeded in restoring
order.
The mob had formed about the gate
keepers cage several minutes before
the attack began. Then the woman
who proc aimed herself an anarchist
stepped forward and drove both fists
through the glass in the window. The
crowd began chanting the "Interna-
tional"
Down with this dirty, rotten gov
ernment They have taken my hus-
band and they are .aking the hus.
bands brothers and fathers OF all of
us" the woman screamed.
New York, Dec. 2E-The United
States army transport Buforl--"ark
OF the soyiet"-sailed before dawn to-
day with q cargo Of Anarchists. com
munists and rad cala banned from
America for conspridng against the
government, The SHIPS destination
was hidden in sealed orders, but the
249 passengers it carried expect 10 De
handed at some port giving access to
soviet Russia.
Long live the Revolution in Ameri-
b." vac chante defaptly hv the mot
ley crowd on the decks of the steel
crap troop ship as ine churned her
way past the Statue ,f Liberty Now
and then they cursed In chorus at the
United States and tie men who had
cut short their protagana here. Not
until the Buford steamed out II the
Narrows between Forts Hamilton
and Wadsworth did the din cease.
over the r heads, whipping IN the
wind tn tSears and Stripes 1oattd
from the masthead.
The autocrats Of all Russians on
the transport were Alexander Berk-
man and Emma Goldman. his boon
companion for thirty years. With
them were 245 men and two women
Ethel Bernstein and Dora Iipkkin.
None know where they would debark
and even Captain G. A. Hitchcock,
commander Of the veteran transport,
was not better off At dayDreak to-
morrow Colonel Hilton, commanding
the troops on board as guards, will
1..I ~, ,l,inDod l,is iuutrrctSonu On
ly a few high officials Of the war and
labor departments know the ships
destination.
The voyage will last eighteen days
unless it is prolonged by unfayorable
weather. The presumption is that
the Buford will land at Hange, Hell
singfors or Abo in Finland, which are
connected by rail with Bielo-Osporolf
on the Russian frontier 1t was inti-
mated in official circles that arrange
ments have been made with the Fin
nish government to permit the pas
sage of the Russians through that
country.
The transfer from Ellis Island to
the Buford of the agtators who have
preached death and destruction was
an event unique in the annals OF this
nation. Seized in raids IN all parts
of the country, they were modified
here for deportation An elaborate
screen of secrecy was thrown about
the preparations for sending them
away
It was in the late hours Of night
that an army tug drew up at the dock
at the immigration station to take tp
the undes rabies for seven mile
joorney down the bay to the Buford
Two dozen soldiers armed with rifles
an as many immigrations carrying
nightsticks patroled 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 imm grafton barracks
to the boat landing, each of them car
rying his or her baggage. A score of
agents of the department of justice
circulated among the Russians wait
ing to begin their long journey. The
agents and the soldiers guards on the
island went on board the tug with the
deportees and took them to the trans
port.