Evening star., 1919-12-22
249 "REDS" SAIL
FOR RUSSIAN PORT
Curses for America MingIe
With Sobs as Deportees'
Ship Leaves.

NEW YORK, December 90 (by the
Associated Press) The soviet ark
buford, which sailed for an unnamed
tnssian port yesterday with 249 rad
,cal deportees on board, will be fol-
.p"eo before she has opportunity to
land by second ark load of reds
according to the best information OBJ
fainable today
1t was stated that second batch of
deportees probably would be embarked
some time this week as the govern
nents second drastic step against
itiens who have sought to bring about
ne overthrow of constitutional govern
-nent The department of justice has
|o.ooo radicals listed. How many of
shese will follow their "red'' leaders
an enforced voyages to their home lands
mas not been made known.
The Ruford, which crept out of Neu
hork harbor Wiki a heavy guard in
ulc darkness yesterday morning. car
req Alexander BerhInan and Emma
'oIunaIl, two of the most notorious an
:trchlst leaders the United States ever
mad harbored, together with 247 other
itoicaiS OF various degrees of red
ness Department of Justice agents
Said the Buford's passenger list COM
pGlSed virtually the brains of the rad
-cai movement in the United States.
Berkman and Goldman on Board.
me autocrats of all the Russians on
Fhe transport were Berkman and Gold
'tian, his boon companion for thirty
ears With them were 245 men and
Two women-Ethel Bernstein and Dora
Ihpkin- None knew where they would
denark and even Capt G. A Hitch
'ocS. commander of the veteran trans
Hort was no better off. At daybreak
morrow Col. Hilton. commanding the
loops on board as guards, will hand
ne skipper his instructions. Only a
rW nigh officials of the War and
= don
estimation
The voyage will last eighteen days
Mess 1t is prolonged by unfavorable
"eather The presumption is that
7ho Buford will land at Hange. Hell
|lng1ors or Abo in Finland. which are
Spnnected by rail with Bielo-Osporoff
IN the Russian frontier. 1t was in
mated in official quarters that ar
lingementS have been made with the
finnish government to permit the
I-assage of the Russians through that
country.
The transfer from Ellis Island to the
Buford of the agitators who have
preached death and destruction was
'tn event unique in the annals Of this
nation. Seized in raids in all parts of
me country, they were mobilized here
1or deportation An elaborate screen
IF secrecy was thrown about the prep
'rations for sending them away
Sobbed at Leaving Lover Behind.
While all the anarchists had professed
Joy at the thought of returning to Rus
sia few Of thern wept. Goodbye,
-America," sobbed Hiss Bernstein as the
lug lns plowed past the Statue of Liberty
Inc girl was leaving behind Samuel
year term in the Atlanta penitentiary
1or violating the espionage law.
Berkman was defiant to the last and
threatened secret service men as he
stepped from the soil Of the United
states
We're coming back and We'll get
you. he muttered. embellishing his
statement with curses.
Curses for America.
ITO he'll with America came a deep
bass voice from the anarchists tug as
4 passed boat crowded with more De-
partment of Justice men.
The chant Of '1ong live the revolution
N the United States was started by
Peter Bianky, general secretary of the
Union of Russian Workers, as the Bu-
ford got under way at SIS O'Clock.
J'roof Of membership in this organiza-
lion. which was formed here in 1907 by
:. Russian who is now chief of police of
Petrograd, caused most of those in the
iiarty today to be deported. Its consti-
tuition advocates the use of violence.
Miss Goldman was so unconcerned
that she slept until after midnight, al
though Mrs. Stella Ballentine, Miss
gerald of New York expressed a desire
TO be deported with Miss Goldman and
Berkman, whom she kissed in public
when he was surrendered for deporta-
tion.
Anthony Caminetti. commissioner
general of immigration, took personal
charge of plans at the island during
the night and accompanied the tug
down the bay. Representatives John
son and Siegel. members of the
House committee on immigration,
both were there, as was Francis P.
and William J. Flynn. chief of the
secret service of the Department of
Justice
AS soon as they were informed that
they would be out of the country be-
fore dawn the male anarchists at the
island formally organized the first
soviet anarchiStic commune" of
America and elected Berkman grand
commissary." He bossed the prepa-
rations of all in the large detention
room and no monarch was ever more
readily obeyed. All stood up when
he entered the room
Plans After Reaching Russia.
Berkman said he expected to go to
J'etrograd and cooperate with Lenin
and TrotZky in governing Russia. lie
said his uncle, y. Starick, was the
director of all the country's railroads.
Most of the members of the commune
had ample clothing of their own, but
he immigrat tion officers :ook care that
no one should be imperiled by the
rigorous weather of Russia The
commune took nearly half a million
Berkman said the cash possessions
averaCed 1000 each
Miss Goldman said her plans after